Neglect Not the Gift that is in Thee - Maria Woodworth-Etter - July 17, 1913 [*With commentary by Pamela Booker]
by Agape Truth International on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at 2:03pm ·
99 years ago, Maria Woodworth-Etter gave a Word that is still relevant today.
In the "Latter Rain Evangel" news edition of August 1913 it was reported that "Maria addressed seventy elders, evangelists and helpers, and hands were laid on them that they might receive a fresh anointing of the Spirit and have more power in their ministry." [*In the Old Testiment and even as close as almost 100 years ago, and to this day, God used His anointed ones to lay hands on to impart giftings! I love God's consistancy!]
The article siad, "A holy hush fell on all and the slaying power of the Lord was strongly manifested. One after another they were prostrated under the power until the large platform looked like a battlefield."
This is the sermon that Maria Woodworth-Etter preached on July 17, 1913 to the Stone Church in Dallas Texas...
"The Lord has given me a special mission to bring about a spirit of unity and love and God is raising up people in every land who are reaching out after more of God and saying, "Come and help us. We want the spirit of love. We want the signs and wonders." The Lord showed me last night as 1 lay awake the most of the night, to gather together the ministers as far as I could that we might see eye to eye, preach the same Gospel and have the same signs following.
"The word is going forth and the multitude is going to take it up and publish it everywhere this Gospel of the Kingdom, our last commission. So you see the saints going out, to give this last message, telling the people that 'Jesus is corning soon."
Mother Etter went on to say that, "You must have the Spirit resting upon you if you are to do anything for God, either at home or abroad. You are not fit for work unless you have it, [the Holy Spirit] and those who serve at home must have it [the Holy Spirit] the same as those who go to China or Africa.
God is not calling every one to the foreign field, but God is calling everyone in some way. Many make the mistake of going out, whom God has not called, and many spend all their time running around to campmeetings. Let us make every place a tent of meeting with the Lord and the Spirit may fall on us as on Eldad and Medad, who were not called to the tent of meeting. And if you are not called to the foreign field, get to work in the place which God does call you to labor."
Further down in the article she said, "The hardest place God sends you to is just the place where He is going to give the greatest victory. But if you have not the spirit and power of the Holy Ghost to energize you, you will be stranded. God expects us to be qualified by the Spirit resting upon us even more in these last days than in the time of Moses. The seventy that Christ sent out had power, and how much more should we have power now that Christ is glorified? So we are expected to do all these great things set forth in the last chapter of Mark."
[*Man! This was almost 100 years ago, so how much MORE do we need the Holy Spirit in our lives and ministries!]
"Now in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew it says this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached to all nations as a witness and then shall the end come. Friends, you and I cannot go out and preach as we used to do. Many sermans that God wonderfully blessed in the past I cannot preach now. I used to preach hell Fire, so you could nearly see the fire, and it took effect then, but the call today is for a different ministry."
"It is not so much in the might of preaching but in the demonstration of the Spirit." [*I LOVED this!]
She said, "Sinners are more hard-hearted than they used to be. You can preach hell until they see the blaze and yet they will stand and look you calmly in the face; but let them see the mighty power of God manifested, and they are convicted."
[*Amen Amen Amen!!! God never changes! When God told Maria to start laying hands on people to heal them she was reluctant because she worried it would take away the salvations, but God told her to do it and the salvations would come! WooHoo! It is STILL the goodness and kindness of God that brings people to repentance!]
In another part of the article Maria said, "God expects us as ambassadors, as teachers, as messengers of His Kingdom to blow the trumpet that sounds the alarm to those who are not ready for His coming. He expects us to prove by His Word, and by the signs and wonders following our minisiry make it plain that Jesus is coming soon."
His ambassadors must stop all contention; all hair-splitting theories must be dropped; the harping on finished work or sanctification that antagonizes the saints must be put away. [*She was a woman after God's own heart. She preached salvation, love, healing and UNITY amongst the denominations!]
"We are to go out and lift up Jesus. Not many sinners come in by our preaching red-hot judgment these days. Paul says preaching has to be in demonstration of the Spirit and with power. The Holy Ghost bears witness with signs and miracles; unless these attend our ministry we cannot succeed." [*WOW Preach it Mother Etter!]
"There are scores and hundreds getting saved. They come from all parts of the country to get healed."
[*Sounds like Redding California to me - grin!]
"The ministry of healing brings people more than anything else and if you can lay hands on the sick and they recover you won't have to Preach to empty seats. You produce the goods of heaven and people want the goods. Let the word go forth in demonstrationand power so people can see what God has for them. There will be no failure in your ministry when they see the power of the Lord present to heal. God expects you to preach as one haviag authority."
[*Whew! I feel the anointing ALL over that as I read the article and compose this note! People 100 years ago hungered for something REAL. People today in 2012 hunger for the real deal! If they don't get it they turn to other darker forms of the supernatural...it is our commission from Christ to bring Heaven down to Earth and demonstrate the supernatural that will show the love and compassion of Jesus Christ to the sick and hurting world!]
"If you blow the trumpet, show the people a supernatural God, and give them the light on what is coming in the millennial age, -that they will be king's and priests - tlhey will realize that the King is in our midst in power and might and glory. Any one that will call upon God in the right way shall be saved."
"He is pouring out His Spirit upon the son's and daughters. There is a special ministry for the women in these days. There are scores to get saved and healed, so you will always have the miraculous if the signs follow. God is going to draw in such as can be saved, to see the mighty works."
"Paul said to Timothy, "Stir up the gift of God that is in thee." If there is any gift God is showing you, you ought to have, you can receiveit by the laying on of hands. It is not so much what you say about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it is but what they see you have."
Maria Woodworth-Etter concluded the serman by saying, "We can talk until we are hoarse, and they won't be convinced, but it is the power of God that convinces them. Don't wait for manifestations before you go forth and do something. When you are weakest, then you are strong. Let's go out and work miracles. Then the people will glorify God!"
[*This little woman refused to back down, even after her denomination outed her." At Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry extension class tonight, Bill Johnson said a few words about Mother Etter, which intrigued me to do some research that led me to this article of her serman....
Bill said that, "Maria Woodworth-Etter was a powerful woman revivalist that changed and transformed cities everywhere that she went." Even though she lost five of her six children at very young ages, knew the heartbreak of loosing her children, she did not let that hurt harden her heart towards God, instead it provoked her to go after God!
I have heard many prophecy's in the last year, saying that it was a time for women ministers to come forth, that God is raising up inter-generational women in the five fold ministry for the Kingdom! Bill siad, "Maria became the most powerful healing evangelist of her time! She was fearless and walked in great authority! We need a whole generation to pick up her mantle."
Maria preached this serman to 70+ ministers, elders & helpers. Since the year was 1913, and she was one of extremely few women ministers, I am thinking she was preaching this to mostly men...so men I am definately not counting you out and there is much for you to glean from this amazing woman of God.
For myself, I choose to take up Maria's mantle and my challenge is this: Women of every Nation, You Who have heard the "Call"... will you take up Marie Woodworth-Etter's mantle? You were born for such a time as this!
Pamela Booker
Agape Truth International
prophecy@AgapeTruth.org
[ Sources, http://healingandrevival.com/BioMWEtter.htm and http://ifphc.org/pdf/LatterRainEvangel/1910-1919/LRE%201913/1913_08.pdf#Page=13 ]
In the "Latter Rain Evangel" news edition of August 1913 it was reported that "Maria addressed seventy elders, evangelists and helpers, and hands were laid on them that they might receive a fresh anointing of the Spirit and have more power in their ministry." [*In the Old Testiment and even as close as almost 100 years ago, and to this day, God used His anointed ones to lay hands on to impart giftings! I love God's consistancy!]
The article siad, "A holy hush fell on all and the slaying power of the Lord was strongly manifested. One after another they were prostrated under the power until the large platform looked like a battlefield."
This is the sermon that Maria Woodworth-Etter preached on July 17, 1913 to the Stone Church in Dallas Texas...
"The Lord has given me a special mission to bring about a spirit of unity and love and God is raising up people in every land who are reaching out after more of God and saying, "Come and help us. We want the spirit of love. We want the signs and wonders." The Lord showed me last night as 1 lay awake the most of the night, to gather together the ministers as far as I could that we might see eye to eye, preach the same Gospel and have the same signs following.
"The word is going forth and the multitude is going to take it up and publish it everywhere this Gospel of the Kingdom, our last commission. So you see the saints going out, to give this last message, telling the people that 'Jesus is corning soon."
Mother Etter went on to say that, "You must have the Spirit resting upon you if you are to do anything for God, either at home or abroad. You are not fit for work unless you have it, [the Holy Spirit] and those who serve at home must have it [the Holy Spirit] the same as those who go to China or Africa.
God is not calling every one to the foreign field, but God is calling everyone in some way. Many make the mistake of going out, whom God has not called, and many spend all their time running around to campmeetings. Let us make every place a tent of meeting with the Lord and the Spirit may fall on us as on Eldad and Medad, who were not called to the tent of meeting. And if you are not called to the foreign field, get to work in the place which God does call you to labor."
Further down in the article she said, "The hardest place God sends you to is just the place where He is going to give the greatest victory. But if you have not the spirit and power of the Holy Ghost to energize you, you will be stranded. God expects us to be qualified by the Spirit resting upon us even more in these last days than in the time of Moses. The seventy that Christ sent out had power, and how much more should we have power now that Christ is glorified? So we are expected to do all these great things set forth in the last chapter of Mark."
[*Man! This was almost 100 years ago, so how much MORE do we need the Holy Spirit in our lives and ministries!]
"Now in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew it says this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached to all nations as a witness and then shall the end come. Friends, you and I cannot go out and preach as we used to do. Many sermans that God wonderfully blessed in the past I cannot preach now. I used to preach hell Fire, so you could nearly see the fire, and it took effect then, but the call today is for a different ministry."
"It is not so much in the might of preaching but in the demonstration of the Spirit." [*I LOVED this!]
She said, "Sinners are more hard-hearted than they used to be. You can preach hell until they see the blaze and yet they will stand and look you calmly in the face; but let them see the mighty power of God manifested, and they are convicted."
[*Amen Amen Amen!!! God never changes! When God told Maria to start laying hands on people to heal them she was reluctant because she worried it would take away the salvations, but God told her to do it and the salvations would come! WooHoo! It is STILL the goodness and kindness of God that brings people to repentance!]
In another part of the article Maria said, "God expects us as ambassadors, as teachers, as messengers of His Kingdom to blow the trumpet that sounds the alarm to those who are not ready for His coming. He expects us to prove by His Word, and by the signs and wonders following our minisiry make it plain that Jesus is coming soon."
His ambassadors must stop all contention; all hair-splitting theories must be dropped; the harping on finished work or sanctification that antagonizes the saints must be put away. [*She was a woman after God's own heart. She preached salvation, love, healing and UNITY amongst the denominations!]
"We are to go out and lift up Jesus. Not many sinners come in by our preaching red-hot judgment these days. Paul says preaching has to be in demonstration of the Spirit and with power. The Holy Ghost bears witness with signs and miracles; unless these attend our ministry we cannot succeed." [*WOW Preach it Mother Etter!]
"There are scores and hundreds getting saved. They come from all parts of the country to get healed."
[*Sounds like Redding California to me - grin!]
"The ministry of healing brings people more than anything else and if you can lay hands on the sick and they recover you won't have to Preach to empty seats. You produce the goods of heaven and people want the goods. Let the word go forth in demonstrationand power so people can see what God has for them. There will be no failure in your ministry when they see the power of the Lord present to heal. God expects you to preach as one haviag authority."
[*Whew! I feel the anointing ALL over that as I read the article and compose this note! People 100 years ago hungered for something REAL. People today in 2012 hunger for the real deal! If they don't get it they turn to other darker forms of the supernatural...it is our commission from Christ to bring Heaven down to Earth and demonstrate the supernatural that will show the love and compassion of Jesus Christ to the sick and hurting world!]
"If you blow the trumpet, show the people a supernatural God, and give them the light on what is coming in the millennial age, -that they will be king's and priests - tlhey will realize that the King is in our midst in power and might and glory. Any one that will call upon God in the right way shall be saved."
"He is pouring out His Spirit upon the son's and daughters. There is a special ministry for the women in these days. There are scores to get saved and healed, so you will always have the miraculous if the signs follow. God is going to draw in such as can be saved, to see the mighty works."
"Paul said to Timothy, "Stir up the gift of God that is in thee." If there is any gift God is showing you, you ought to have, you can receiveit by the laying on of hands. It is not so much what you say about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it is but what they see you have."
Maria Woodworth-Etter concluded the serman by saying, "We can talk until we are hoarse, and they won't be convinced, but it is the power of God that convinces them. Don't wait for manifestations before you go forth and do something. When you are weakest, then you are strong. Let's go out and work miracles. Then the people will glorify God!"
[*This little woman refused to back down, even after her denomination outed her." At Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry extension class tonight, Bill Johnson said a few words about Mother Etter, which intrigued me to do some research that led me to this article of her serman....
Bill said that, "Maria Woodworth-Etter was a powerful woman revivalist that changed and transformed cities everywhere that she went." Even though she lost five of her six children at very young ages, knew the heartbreak of loosing her children, she did not let that hurt harden her heart towards God, instead it provoked her to go after God!
I have heard many prophecy's in the last year, saying that it was a time for women ministers to come forth, that God is raising up inter-generational women in the five fold ministry for the Kingdom! Bill siad, "Maria became the most powerful healing evangelist of her time! She was fearless and walked in great authority! We need a whole generation to pick up her mantle."
Maria preached this serman to 70+ ministers, elders & helpers. Since the year was 1913, and she was one of extremely few women ministers, I am thinking she was preaching this to mostly men...so men I am definately not counting you out and there is much for you to glean from this amazing woman of God.
For myself, I choose to take up Maria's mantle and my challenge is this: Women of every Nation, You Who have heard the "Call"... will you take up Marie Woodworth-Etter's mantle? You were born for such a time as this!
Pamela Booker
Agape Truth International
prophecy@AgapeTruth.org
[ Sources, http://healingandrevival.com/BioMWEtter.htm and http://ifphc.org/pdf/LatterRainEvangel/1910-1919/LRE%201913/1913_08.pdf#Page=13 ]
