


In the late 1800s and early 1900s Smith Wigglesworth had one of the most empowered healing ministries in the WORLD. People have asked what made him different, why did God give him so much authority? God gave him the same authority as He has given YOU!

Smith Wigglesworth: An Ordinary Man Who Believed God’s Word
What happens when an ordinary person takes God at His Word? The life of Smith Wigglesworth answers that question. He was a poor, unschooled plumber from England, and he became known around the world as the “Apostle of Faith.” Thousands came to his meetings, and many reported being healed of sickness and disease. His story is not about a man with special powers. It is about what God will do for anyone who believes the Scriptures and acts on them.
Smith was born in June 1859 in Menston, a small village in Yorkshire, England, into a poor family. When he was about seven, he and his brother went to work in the woollen mill where their father was a weaver, so he had almost no schooling as a boy. In 1867, at a revival meeting he went to with his Methodist grandmother, he gave his life to Christ. In 1872 his family moved to the city of Bradford. Smith began working as a plumber at about eighteen, and by 1882 he had his own plumbing business.
As a teenager he became active in the Salvation Army, and there he met Mary Jane “Polly” Featherstone. They married in Bradford on December 4, 1882. After they married, Polly taught him to read. A man who once could not read a single page went on to build his life and ministry on the Word of God. Around 1889 the couple moved their ministry to the Bowland Street Mission in the Manningham area of Bradford, and the work God began there would one day reach around the world.
The turning point came in October 1907. Smith traveled to All Saints Church in Sunderland, England, whose vicar was Alexander Boddy. There Mrs. Boddy laid hands on him and prayed, and he received the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Soon afterward, invitations to preach began to come in. Polly also received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and the two of them traveled together preaching throughout Britain. Polly died suddenly in Bradford in January 1913, after preaching at the Bowland Street Mission. Smith testified that he prayed over her and she was briefly brought back to life before going home to be with the Lord.
After Polly’s death, Smith took the message of faith and healing to the nations. He first went to North America in 1914 and returned there many times over the next twenty years. His campaigns also took him to Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Wherever he went, crowds gathered and healings were reported. Following are some of them:
According to Kenneth Hagin and Wigglesworth biographer Roberts Liardon, 23 people were raised from the dead through his ministry.
His sermons were published in the book Ever Increasing Faith in 1924. He kept ministering into old age and died on March 12, 1947, at age 87, at Glad Tidings Hall in Wakefield, England, while attending a friend’s funeral. His supporters regard him as one of the fathers of the Pentecostal church.
BUT, understand, this Is Not About a Man. It Is About God’s Word.
Smith Wigglesworth is not to be worshipped or placed on a pedestal. The healings and miracles in his ministry were the work of God, not of the man. What set Smith apart was not who he was but what he believed: that God means what He says in the Bible. The Scriptures say, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8), and “God is no respecter of persons” (Acts 10:34). The same God who healed through an unschooled plumber is the same God today, and His promises are for you. The purpose of this ministry is to teach you what the Bible says about faith and healing, so that you can believe it, follow it, and see God change your life.
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