Smith Wigglesworth - the Man — George Stormont

This is take number one on the spiritual secrets of the life of Smith Riddlesworth this presentation. The man is one of four fine cassette programs. Covering the dynamic ministry of this man of God and apostle of faith.

Psalm 15 and the Life of Faith

Sharing these secrets. Pastor George Stormont. I'm asking you to turn to Psalm 15 Just reading that as a starting point. When I was a boy I used to stay on a farm and we got the water out of a pump. You always kept a jug of water By the pump so the first thing in the morning you could prime the pump.

You pour the water in the top of the pump. It would cause the plant to swell you could get water out. So let's pour some water In and prime the pump this morning. Psalm 15 Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that dactited not with his tongue nor doeth evil to his neighbor. Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.

In whose eyes a vile person is contend, but he honors them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own heart and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury nor taketh reward against the innocent.

He that doeth these things shall never be moved. In 1964 Oral Roberts was preaching in England for the first time. And I was driving him back to the home where he was staying one night after service. And we began to talk about Smith Wigglesworth, and he said to me Every one of us in the healing ministry today owe a debt To Smith Wigglesworth that we can never repay.

And I began to reflect on that and think of the time that I had had with Smith Wigglesworth. And how his life had blessed me and as I reflected on this so the Understanding of the ways of God grew and In the early 1970s when I was preparing to come to preach in America for the first time God laid a burden on my heart to share some of those spiritual secrets, and that's what I'm doing here with you today and Many of you will not know Smith Wigglesworth or too much about him.

Smith Wigglesworth's Ministry and Spiritual Influence

It's a funny name Wigglesworth. It's a Yorkshire name from the north of England. Smith is an unusual first name Since you're calling your husband Smith, but he was a plumber faved at an early age and Not really used in a worldwide sense until he was 55 that was the beginning of his world ministry that had had such influence on so many many lives and When he began to move out in the spirit God began to use him in a wonderful way.

He had such an understanding of faith that it was Not difficult to call him the apostle of faith. He died in 1947 at the age of 87 and Sometimes when I've been introduced as his friend and colleague. I've wondered what age they thought I was a little lady in California came to me after a meeting and said it's so wonderful to Talk to someone who actually talked to Wigglesworth and to shake hands with the very hand that shook the hands of Smith Wigglesworth.

Then she looked into my eyes. She said did you know Jonathan Edwards? He died in.

1758 and.

With great pastoral tact. I said my dear. I never met him, but I have with some of his books. Something happened that was in San Diego. My next service was in Sacramento and I told the whole story of a kind of icebreaker and The same little lady came to me after the service.

Said I didn't mean it that way. I said my dear I could hug you. You've given me the best preacher story against myself I've ever heard and so here's a very old gentleman here this morning to share with you and To tell you something one thing that stands out.

My contact with Wigglesworth was only over a period of about seven years. But it gave me an insatiable hunger for God and the Word of God and Manifestation in reality of the power of God. I Couldn't be content afterwards with just flinching.

I Needed to see and I still need to see the Lord working with me Confirming his word with science following and I believe that's the ministry that God wants us all to have. I'd like to make clear. This is not a eulogy Wigglesworth would have been angry with me even for telling you what I'm telling you, but I'm not here to exalt a man.

Seeing Jesus Rather Than Exalting a Servant

I Think that Paul had the right standard when he said be followers of me even as I also am of Christ and I want to show how Jesus worked in Smith Wigglesworth and you'll get your eyes off Smith Wigglesworth and on Jesus and See Jesus moving in his life.

One day when he was staying in our home I was doing what every good husband should do. I was taking my wife a cup of tea in bed in the morning and I met Wigglesworth on the stairway and he said brother God spoke to me on your bed.

I said, what did he say? He said Wigglesworth. I'm going to burn you all up. Until there's no more Wigglesworth and it's only Jesus. He stood on the stairway in our home 27 Canvey Road, Leyonsee, Essex, England.

Looked at his hands to heaven and with tears rolling down his cheeks. Oh Lord. He said come and do it. I don't want them to see Wigglesworth anymore. I just want them to see Jesus. And so as we share this this morning and through these days, let's get our eyes on the Lord.

But another thing I want to say right at the beginning God doesn't want a lot of little Wigglesworth. At one time people try to imitate him and You couldn't really. You had to be Wigglesworth to be Wigglesworth.

You just couldn't copy him. Don't try to Just look behind and beyond the Examples that I may give and see the principle of operation that God has in his servant life. That you look to the Lord to accomplish in you what he wants through you.

You can be no one else but you and God wants that you redeemed sanctified committed anointed and fully developed and matured and the potential in you is so great That there's enough power Potentially in this gathering today to blast America wide open morally and spiritually and to change the course of the nation.

If you become the kind of you God meant you to be in the fullness of his Redemption. It was an unusual thing to have Smith Wigglesworth in your home. He was an easy guest. But he had some unusual habits.

I would bring him slippers when he came in from a meeting. My brother He said I never put slippers on. He wore patent leather shoes and he wouldn't take those off till he went to bed. He put them on first thing in the morning.

He warmed the whole day. You see my brother He said I might take these off. I might catch cold. So he kept his patent leather shoes on. He had a copper Hot water bottle which he asked you to fill every morning every night with boiling water.

That he took to bed with him without any cover on it and he used to make that his Comforter in the night and then of course in many English homes in those days There wasn't indoor plumbing and so he didn't have to wait for you to boil water.

He used the water out of his hot water bottle to wash and shave him first thing in the morning. He wouldn't wear a buttonhole. I tried to give him a rose to wear one day. Thought it would look nice on his dark suit.

Brother. He said I never wear buttonholes. You see my brother. He said when you cut a flower It starts to die. And I don't want anything that smells of death on me. And so he wouldn't even wear a buttonhole.

The Healing Power of Jesus Flowing Through Believers

Let me Try to share something today about the man. I first met him for personal conversation. When I had to bring him from London to my hometown during the war 1940. We were not allowed to keep cars in our area because we were in the defense area.

We were frequently bombed and So I had to go by train to London to bring him back 40 miles by train. And on the way back he had arranged to meet a man whose wife was dying of cancer of the abdomen. We got together on the train we were set in one corner.

I sat next to him the man said opposite him and There was a young lady in the train we didn't know probably a secretary from London. Riddle to earth as soon as we sat down the train started said to the man whose wife was ill Jesus is up.

Jesus is down. Jesus is up. And this is my first meeting with him. I thought what on earth does he mean? And then he quoted John 3 13 No man has ascended to heaven, but he which came down from heaven.

Even the son of man which is in heaven you see my brother. He said to this man Jesus is in heaven with all power. I Put out the hand of faith and touched him. He reaches down the hand of power and touches me and his life flowed into me.

And then moved by his compassion and in faith I put out my hand and I touched the sick and the life of Jesus flowed through me to the sick person and He heals him and when he's healed he begins to praise the Lord for his healing and the life of Jesus goes back to heavenly Worship you see my brother.

He did that's the cycle of life in the Holy Ghost. Now come on brother storm on he said we're gonna pour life into this fellow and so we stood up. And Riddlesworth never prayed quietly. He had an enormously strong voice and This poor girl who didn't belong to us looking was looking on almost Terrified what were these strange men doing in a British railway carriage?

Riddlesworth said Lord pour your life into this fellow. Come on brother storm. Would you pray? And I prayed and he said louder pray louder didn't believe in quiet prayer and when we prayed together He said to this man now go home.

Put your hands on your wife's stomach and God will heal them. I Never met that man again, but six months later. I met his pastor and asked what happened. He said that's just what he did. He went home put his hands on his wife's stomach and she was instantly healed of terminal cancer.

The cycle of life in the Holy Ghost. Fred Francis Brosworth said one of the reasons God has Fulfilling believers with the Holy Spirit is that he wants to be unhindered in his wonderful work of Quickening continually a whole spirit and soul and body and when we're really in touch with God The life of God is flowing through us and a very handshake can communicate the healing convicting Redeeming sanctifying grace of God in ways that we can never measure.

I Took the hand of a blind woman suffering from congenital venereal disease and later through my parents home from one room to another and Later, I discovered that when I touched her God touched her and she was healed of congenital venereal disease after 49 years.

Because the life of God is in us and there's a cycle of life in the Holy Ghost. But we need to discover and to he was a blunt man very blunt in his speech. One day my wife was apologizing for something that hadn't come up to standard ladies when you have business does that happen sometimes?

Something goes a little wrong in the cooking and she said I'm sorry brother Wigglesworth, but the pie isn't quite up to standard. He said shut up woman. And my wife was astonished she's not not even I would say that.

He said shut up woman no complaints when the blessing died. You see he said it's sanctified by the Word of God and prayer and once it's sanctified. You don't complain. So men you better get your complaints in before you say great.

I took him to a church for a meeting. We were driving home together and in his rather rough North country way he said brother. They'll never have revival in that church with that woman at piano and I told the pastor what he said.

I said why you have that lady the piano. Wigglesworth said you'll never get revival. Oh, he said ridiculous that lady is still there 44 years later. They'll have to lift her off that piano stool into her coffin she's so determined to stay there.

And they've never had revival. They've had to decline all the way through. Oh. He was blunt, but he knew something of the mind of the spirit. He wasn't always right. He sometimes would. Hit people when he prayed for them, and I said to him why do you hit them?

He said I don't hit them. I hit the devil they get in the way. But if you didn't agree with him you have to acknowledge he had remarkable results. My predecessor. In Manchester was John Nelson Parnes.

He told me he said I had Wigglesworth here and Wigglesworth had great pain in his back. Before the service and Wigglesworth said Johnny said I want you to pray for me. So John just put his hand on him as we normally do and pray for him.

He says that's no good. You'll never get anywhere that way. Pump it out man. Pump it out. And so Nelson Parnes just said in the name of the Lord and Wigglesworth said that's better. It's gone now hallelujah.

There are a couple of Bible school students from Hampstead Bible School, London who came out for prayer. Both had stomach trouble. I think it was Bible school cooking. And He said to the first one what's wrong with you?

He said it's my stomach. Mr. Wigglesworth stand there in the name of Jesus come out of it. The fellow doubled up. Next man said what's wrong with you? He said please will you pray for my eyes? Just as Ducliffy the brother of David Ducliffy was the General Secretary of the Apostolic Faith Church of South Africa.

And he told me that Wigglesworth's visit to South Africa revolutionized the spiritual life of the whole country. He said in one service a big South African woman came out for prayer. Wigglesworth said what's wrong with you?

And she told him and he said in the name of the Lord and slowed her. She said oh is that how it is. And she hit him back. But the next night she was back in the meeting in tears, and she said may I have opportunity please.

To apologize in public for hitting the servant of the Lord. When I got home I found I was totally healed. So while I don't recommend his method and suggest you don't try it. You need to recognize what he saw was the power of Satan.

And one of his favorite texts was the kingdom of heaven suffered violence and the violent take it by force. The story told in connection with him of a lady who had a little dog. She was standing at the bus stop and the dog had followed her from the home.

And she turned to the dog said darling you must go home mommy can't do with you and darling didn't go home. She said darling you must go home, you know mommy can't do with you. I'm going on the bus and she talked in that silly way to that silly dog.

Just a piece of gristle with four legs. And nothing happened until the bus came and she turned around and said get home. She said and the dog went off with his tail between his feet its legs. I'm sorry and Wigglesworth said that's the way to deal with the devil.

He said you can't be soft with him. But in spite of that he was filled with compassion. When he stayed in our home I bring him his meal and after breakfast he would sit at the table. My wife would peel things away.

He'd open his mail and he'd in his own hand long hand writing. He would write a letter back and sometimes he'd call me to him from my office. Which is in another part of the house at that time? He said Bobby you must come and help me and he'd be weeping over letters from people that he had never met.

Because of the problems that he read in this letter or these letters and he was all the time Moved with compassion. I think that's the one reason God blessed him. Sometimes he'd stand before a congregation.

He'd see people come out for prayer in desperate spiritual need and physical need and he'd be so broken up. He'd weep so much. He could hardly pray. And sometimes the whole congregation was involved in this weeping in the spirit in compassion.

Compassion for People and Freedom in the Spirit

They weren't just Troopers that he wanted to hang up they were people and We have to look at those who come as people. I sometimes get people say something to me about Spiritual growth numerical growth.

You mustn't be after numbers. Well, I tell you Jesus wasn't I am. And we go to a thought because numbers represent people. If every one of these chairs was filled with someone a living human being we'd have a potential of evangelism or of teaching or of growth and You count with God as an individual and every needy person counts with God of individual and we need to be moved with compassion.

Sometimes when I pray for the sick, I I get that same overwhelming sense of the love of God. That God loves people and loves to redeem. Sometimes he could be strong and sometimes very gentle. We had a preacher one of the conventions.

They imported, can I use that word? Wigglesworth as chairman of the convention a place called Preston in Lancashire in England. It's a big convention those days 2 ,000 people and Wigglesworth was a marvelous chairman.

He would get a meeting free in two minutes. I remember standing up to speak to 2 ,000 people and it was only eight minutes into the service, but it was in perfect liberty. Because Wigglesworth knew how to bring freedom in the Holy Spirit in the meeting and Wigglesworth In this particular convention had a speaker who just been to Belgian Congo.

It wasn't those days Zaire it's called now and he came back with a tremendous story of the needs and the problems. He was getting excited as he talked. He was preaching his voice was getting higher and higher and the tension was growing more and more and more.

He went on and on to Wigglesworth stood up. He said sit down man. You're killing yourself and us. And he made the man sit down and he sat down and Then he said well, we'll sing to him while our brother gets quiet and he can start again.

And we sang to him and the man I knew well had the grace to get quiet and Wigglesworth wasn't afraid to do that sort of thing. When I went first time to speak in that convention I was pretty new on the convention circuit and they had some of the leading teachers Donald G and Howard Carter were there that particular meeting and there was I a raw beginner in convention speaking.

Wigglesworth just looked at me and said my brother. He said you'll be the first speaker have to hide by and through the operation. The only ghost will open the door as wide as possible. Did he get that?

He dropped stages footages in but he said you'll be the first speaker after I buy and through the operation of those. He goes I've opened the doors widest as possible and he was just moved with compassion to a young creature.

But prepared to deal severely with a man who also is not better. He was a man who moved in the spirit. I believe that. Like Jesus Wigglesworth knew what it was to love people. He was moved with compassion.

Sometimes you learn to like read how often Jesus was moved with compassion and see that movement of the spirit. Working in your own life. He was one day in this Preston convention. Making some comments he would do this between items that have a cause or him.

One of his great hymns was restless now come Jesus Lord with holy fire come and my quicken heart in fire. And you have a hymn like that and then he'd make a comment to do and he was so anointed one time.

He was making a comment with a man at the balcony way over there began to speak with tongues and Wigglesworth said.

Shut up, that's a tactful courteous.

Crowd controller. He said I'm talking and when I'm talking it's not time for you to talk in tongues. I Like talking in tongues. He said more than all of you here, but when I'm talking I'm talking. You see it says in the scripture Let the first hold his peace.

And it doesn't mean that you have the right to interrupt him. You have let the first come to the end of what he's saying when he holds his peace. That's the time to speak and Wigglesworth discovered that and discerned that and I thought at that time why that was sharp.

I don't think that was the right thing to do, you know young preachers know it all don't they and Bible students. No, even the Bible school students know even more. And we know what these preachers ought to do how he ought to have said it and why he shouldn't have done that.

And there was I saying he shouldn't have done that that was ruled. Discovered later that man was an interruption in many conventions and Wigglesworth had discerned in the spirit that man was out of order.

He was speaking one day in his comments between Speakers and suddenly he stopped. He said God has shown me that in this meeting today there are those who are Afflicted with a spirit of uncleanness of moral sexual uncleanness.

Wherever you are raise your hand and he didn't ask us to bow our heads and I sat on the platform and wept. Over the building I saw people raising hands. Young people and old white haired old people. He said now stand to your feet.

And he prayed for them one by one. Never forget one young man. He was under the balcony. He said I'm praying for you as he pointed to him and Suddenly as Wigglesworth prayed for him this boy slung his arms in the air and Shouted at the top of his voice.

I'm free. I'm free. I'm free and He was totally liberated from the power of uncleanness by the power of God. There is victory. We don't have to be contaminated by the world and Wigglesworth so moved in the spirit He deserved that.

I think most of us who should bow your head don't look wrong. But Wigglesworth prepared to deal with it and face up to it and I just thank God for that memory because I saw the possibility that I Had repeated in my own life and ministry of seeing people delivered from the power of uncleanness and brought into holiness with Jesus.

In one of our services in Leon C That a person got up and gave a very very lengthy utterance in tongues. Well said Wigglesworth the first half of that and more and now more than half of it was phrases.

I shan't bother with that. This is the interpretation of the best that really was for the church. That's the way to. We never had any trouble with that lady after that she never Spoke in tongues so long again.

Holiness, Truthfulness, and Integrity Before God

I think Wigglesworth had discerned What the situation was. In one of his crusades the lady came forward for prayer. She had a small head in those days. No. No lady would come into a church or even a religious meeting without a head and she had a small head.

But obviously she could see her face and Wigglesworth as he's about to pray for her had a revelation from God. That this was a loose woman living sin. And so he quietly he covered the mic and he said to her Go home and stop sinning and God will heal you.

He didn't pray for her. That was all he had to say. The next night she was back with a big hat. With a floppy rim that covered her face. And she came out again though 2 ,000 people out for prayer that night.

And Wigglesworth couldn't have recognized her in that crowd. But as she came for he said you were here last night. I told you to go home and stop sinning and he doesn't come in the night. He said get out until you obey God.

Don't you come again? It had a devastating effect on the woman a very profound effect on the meeting. People realize that you can't play with God. God is holy and God is righteous and God is prepared to deal in grace.

But he also wants to deal in righteousness. Pastor Arne Dahl who's known to some here told me that when Wigglesworth was in Norway There was a preacher came out for prayer and this preacher had abused his voice.

And Wigglesworth said before he prayed look my brother. He said if you're in business, and I knew that you were doing everything you could to destroy your business. I wouldn't pray for God to pass for you.

You're doing everything. You know how to destroy your voice. He said I won't pray for you until you promise to use your voice properly. That man repented of the abuse of his voice. Wigglesworth prayed for him and He was healed.

You see Wigglesworth Knew what truth was and he wouldn't put up with sham. He believed in being real with God. He was always saddened by Evangelistic Exaggeration. We hear the term Evangelistically speaking or sometimes Evangelistically speaking and we know what it means, but it hurt Wigglesworth.

He said to me one day brother. He said God has shown me never to exaggerate. God cannot bless Exaggeration and he said I asked God always to help me to tell it as it was never to add to it. You know you hear some testimonies and they grow through the years don't they?

They grow with the telling. I Knew one man who was arrested for drunkenness it took one policeman to arrest him. But he told that story so often that it was four policemen before he finished. Wigglesworth had nothing to do with that.

He said God bless his truth and though I heard some of his stories many times. They never varied by a hair but you could always count on Wigglesworth's word the man of his word. He spoke the truth. The young man in America when Wigglesworth was preaching over here Was drawn to him and Wigglesworth said young men if ever you need me Let me know and I'll come and help you.

This young man was in the New York area. Wigglesworth was away in California. Conducting meetings when this young man wired Come I need your help. Wigglesworth wound up the meetings he was in and traveled at his own expense across America by rail in those days and Went to help this young man.

He had just six people in the first meeting. But you see he'd given his word Says Psalm 15. He swears to his own hurt and changes not in the Pentecostal conference world. Pentecostal conference in London in 1952.

I was chairman of the first public meeting and I was given the task of introducing Preachers who had written said they'd like a preaching appointment to their host pastors and So I introduced quite a number.

What hurt me more than anything else I can remember almost was this that many of those men came to me After having me introduced to their host pastor saying brother Stalmont We'll have to cancel out that appointment you have for us.

I've just met some friends I haven't seen for years and we want to see London together and They broke an appointment to preach the gospel. Because they'd met some friends. I Can't tell you how that wounded me and I've come across it can I said very tenderly more than America than anywhere else.

Men make promises and don't keep them and I think it's a great thing to get this in your spirit. Like Riddlesworth, I will always speak the truth. And if I say it if it's within my power, I'll do it. I'll keep my word at all costs.

Giving, Faith, and God's Provision

Riddlesworth Was a generous man got royalties from his book ever-increasing faith. They amounted to quite a sum 20 ,000 pounds which in those days would be about a hundred thousand dollars. Well in 1940 a hundred thousand dollars was a lot of money here, wasn't it?

With a very big sum of money. And Riddlesworth didn't keep one penny. He gave every cent to missions. He heard of a couple from India wanting to go back to India and they couldn't raise their fare. He just come to the end of a month's meetings and he had a very generous ministry gift a love offering.

And when he heard about these missionaries, he endorsed the check and gave it to them and said here's your fare back to India. He gave because he discovered there's a principle Give and it shall be given unto you Luke 6 and 38 and he lived by that and never lacked.

He used to drink a lot of olive oil. Before ever polyunsaturated fats were ever heard of he was always drinking olive oil. And when you couldn't get a small bottle during the war God always saw to it that his servant had a gallon bottle.

It was amazing how God supplied all his needs. Friend of mine named Willie Hacking has written a book. He may come across it. Riddlesworth remembered and Hacking knew him a lot closer than I did and I was just trying to think what I was trying to tell you that about.

It slipped out of my mind but Willie Hacking knew him as a man who Kept his word of the man who gave and it was given unto him. It comes back to my mind now. He gave to Willie Hacking a copy of his book.

He said now Willie Don't you lend that book to anyone you see if they borrow it off you. They won't buy it and I want you to. I want them to buy it because I want the profit to go to me. He was moved in this wonderful way.

He'd learned the secret. Someone said to him, you know, you live by faith, but you're always well-dressed. Willie said my brother I used to be a plumber. And whenever the time comes and my suit is worn out.

My shoes are down on my heels. I say Lord It's about time. I went back to plumbing. He thought God could look after him better than he could look after himself. And God did and you really live by faith.

Howard Carter was a well-known Bible teacher in those days and a friend of Burgos Wilson. He was a man who moved very much in the realm of faith. He lived by faith and some said brother Carter. You must have had some hard times living by faith hard times He said that would be dying by faith not living by faith.

See when God gives he gives abundantly and in 2 Corinthians 9 verse 8 and verse 11 God is able to make all grace abound toward you that he Always having all sufficiency in all things may abound unto every good work.

Being enriched in everything that whole bountifulness which cause it through us Thanksgiving to God. I Have a friend in Indiana Who is marvelously used of God. They have their church. He's been meeting in a barn.

They're just pulling they're extending now to seat 500 in a village that has 300 inhabitants and they being back to the doors. He said, you know, I never learned the fullness of freedom. Until I learned to give I was saved from the world's economy and brought into God's economy.

And that's where with us would have lived in the sweetness and the freedom of the Spirit of God. Riddlesworth was a holy man. Holiness isn't a very popular doctrine. We're living in society when standards have gone and when things are accepted even amongst Christians.

That used to be frowned on and I'm not talking just about the negatives. I mean, there used to be a lot of bow-sharp-knots that were just human rules. But there are some principles of righteousness.

They're abandoned to these days and Riddlesworth was a man who was moved by the spirit of hunger after Righteousness and he had a passion for holiness. And my brothers and sisters and especially young men and women.

You'll never go wrong if that is a major passion in your heart. That you might be holy that you might be like Jesus Christ. Riddlesworth lived in that realm. He was a very calm man. Riddlesworth was so calm that you never saw the slightest Flatter of unrest in him.

He was walking with Willy one day and he just bought a new hat and as they walked the wind blew and took his new expensive hat right into the middle of the river and Riddlesworth said well brother Hacking.

He said I don't think it's wise to walk out without a hat. Let's go home. Wasn't the slightest bit disturbed and yet there was a time he tells himself When he had such a temper that he would go white with rage.

He would shake he'd almost lose control. But he said I went to my room and I shut myself in with God and I waited before God until God dealt with that all nature and Worked the Jesus nature into me and his wife bore witness.

She said I never saw a greater change in a man than in my husband Smith. Nothing was too hot too cold. Everything was right, and I knew him those seven years and had many situations where things could have Irritated him, but he just moved in the sweetness and the freedom and the blessing of God and he never ceased to hunger after righteousness.

D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge, Florida Wrote a short article five prayers that have changed my life. You might like to note them slay me ends me use me. Slay me cleanse me fill me. Lead me slay me. Let me know what it means to be crucified with Christ.

Cleanse me take away the defiles my heart fill me with the Holy Spirit guide me and then use me. And that seemed to me to sum up the way Wigglesworth would pray. On Matthew 5 and 6 he had this comment.

Hungering and thirsting after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us. So much as being near to God. On Mark 11 24 if there's anything in your heart, which is in the way of condemnation.

You cannot pray the prayer of faith. Purity is vital to faith. On Philippians chapter 1. I'm rather Philippians chapter 2 and verse 5. When you're willing to throw your whole heart into the plan of God when you long to be holy when you long to be pure.