As Wigglesworth hurried to Mitchell's house, he heard screaming coming from the house. On
the way into Mr. Mitchell's room, he passed Mrs. Mitchell, who was crying, "He's gone! He's
gone!"
Wigglesworth related his experience:
I just passed Mrs. Mitchell and went into the room, and immediately I saw that Mitchell had
gone. I could not understand it, but I began to pray. My wife was always afraid that I would go
too far, and she laid hold of me and said, "Don't, Dad! Don't you see that he is dead?"
But I continued praying. I got as far as I could with my own faith, and then God laid hold of me.
Oh, it was such a laying hold that I could believe for anything. The faith of the Lord Jesus laid
hold of me and a solid peace came into my heart. I shouted, "He lives! He lives! He lives!" And
he is living today. '
Receiving the dead raised back to life again is beyond anyone's ordinary faith. In our ordinary
faith, we could try what Wigglesworth did — we could pull someone off a deathbed and stand
him up and tell him to walk, but that doesn't mean he would begin to walk. Why? Because it
takes a supernatural manifestation of God's power to receive a miracle such as this.
The Power Gifts Often Work Together
As I have mentioned, the three power gifts — the gift of faith, the gifts of healings, and the
working of miracles — will very often work together. In the case of raising the dead, all three of
these power gifts — the gift of faith, the gifts of healings, and the working of miracles —
operate together. This is one reason we don't see too many people raised from the dead;
some of us may have one or more of these gifts operating in our lives, but not too many of us
have all of them operating in our lives.
First of all, in raising the dead, it takes supernatural faith — the gift of special faith — to call a
person's spirit back after it has left the body. Then it takes the working of miracles because the
body would have started to deteriorate, as in the case of Lazarus (John 11:39).
Raising the dead also takes gifts of healings because if the person who was raised from the
dead wasn't healed, whatever he died from would still affect his body and he would die again.
So the person would have to be healed too. Therefore, all three of the power gifts are in
manifestation when someone is raised from the dead.
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