Smith Wigglesworth was a powerful and anointed man of God. After many trials and personal struggles, he was filled with the Holy Ghost and his life's work changed. He became one of the most powerful, and Godly men of his time. His comments about being filled with the Holy Ghost are as follows:
The multitude chose out seven men to serve tables. They were doubtless faithful in their appointed tasks, but we see that God soon had a better choice for two of them. Philip was so full of the Holy Ghost that he could have a revival wherever God put him down. Man chose him to serve tables, but God chose him to win souls. O, if I could only stir you up to see that as you are faithful in performing the humblest office, God can fill you with His Spirit and make you a chosen vessel for Himself, and promote you to a place of mighty ministry in the salvation of souls and in the healing of the sick. There is nothing impossible to a man filled with the Holy Ghost. It is beyond all human comprehension. When you are filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, God will wonderfully work wherever you go.
When you are filled with the Spirit you will know the voice of God. I want to give you one illustration of this. When I was going out to Australia recently, our boat stopped at Aden and at Bombay. In the first place the people came round the ship selling their wares, beautiful carpets and all sorts of oriental things. There was one man selling some ostrich feathers. As I was looking over the side of the ship watching the trading, a gentleman said to me, "Would you go shares with me in buying that bunch of feathers?" What did I want with feathers? I had no use for such things and no room for them either. But the gentleman put the question to me again, "Will you go shares with me in buying that bunch?" The Spirit of God said to me, "Do it."
And that is just how Smith Wigglesworth was. God spoke to him and he (Wigglesworth) just did it! He succeeded in the prayer of faith resulting in thousands of persons being healed of all manner of diseases. In fact, he prayed with his wife- who was filled with the Holy Ghost also- and God healed him of a long-standing physical ailment as well as healing him of stammering. Smith Wigglesworth preached, prayed, led the lost to salvation and prayed for healings until in his later years, God just took him. He was not even sick, he did not lay around on a bed of affliction, God just took him one day while he was standing and talking to another person. God Abides!!
Smith Wigglesworth, "Ever Increasing Faith: Chapter 11": What It Means to Be Full of the Holy Ghost"
