© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923

When Smith Missed God

I have been in many places where I have needed a Word of Wisdom from God, and this has been vouchsafed.

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How to Stir Up The Gift

Thousands have missed wonderful blessings because they have not had faith to move out and begin in the natural, in faith that the Lord would take them into the realm of the supernatural.

Preached at Springfield Assembly of God in 1922

You have no licence to continue beyond a, “Thus sayeth the Lord.”

There is another side to this

God would have the assembly as free as possible, and you must not put your hand upon the working of the Spirit, or it will surely bring trouble.

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White Ostrich feathers used to adorn a straw boater hat in 1920’s fashion.

Ostrich Feathers

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Shortly after this we find that after preaching in His home town they wanted to throw Him over the brow of a hill.

It was the same with the Twelve disciples

They had no persecution before the day of Pentecost, but after they were filled with the Spirit, they were soon in prison.

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He’s Always Willing

Most places that we go to there are so many people that we cannot pray for. In some places there are 200 or 300 who would like us to visit them, but we are not able to do so. But I am glad that the Lord Jesus is always willing to come and heal.

He longs to meet the sick ones.

He loves to heal them of their afflictions

© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
When I was in Australia, a man came up to me. He was leaning on a big stick, and said, “I would like you to help me. It will take you half an hour to pray for me.”

I said, “Believe God, and in one moment you will be whole.”

In the world they are always having new diseases, and the doctors cannot locate them.

A doctor said to me, “The science of medicine is in its infancy, and really we doctors have no confidence in our medicine. We are always experimenting.”

But the man of God does not experiment.

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A Warning

I have seen some who have been terribly switched. They believe in Gifts, in prophecy, and they use these Gifts apart from the power of the Holy Ghost.

© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923

Not In the Presence of Unbelievers

That is what troubles us, somebody being drunk in a place of worship where a lot of people come in that know nothing about the word.

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God save us from becoming stationary!

God would have us to understand concerning spiritual Gifts, and to covet earnestly the best gifts, and also to enter into the more excellent way of the fruit of the Spirit.

© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923

Deceiving Spirits of Cults

Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

1 Cor. 12:3 KJV

© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923

Made to Stand

Oh, this life in the Holy Ghost! This life of deep, inward revelation, of transformation from one state to another, of growing in grace, and in the knowledge, and in the power of the Spirit, the life and the mind of Christ being renewed in you, and of constant revelations of the might of His power.

© 19 Colin Melbourne Edited and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel May 1922

God’s Testimonies

“This is that.” And God wants you to have that: Nothing less than that.
He wants you to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit according to this original pattern.

In Acts 10 we have another witness

Peter is in the house of Cornelius.

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Read part 4

Now listen!

Some people put the touch of the Lord in the place of faith.

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Read part 3

The Living Christ

Jesus spoke not as a scribe, but with authority and power, decked with divine glory.

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Read part 2

Anyone Who Has Faith

So he went to the meeting. When he came back he said,
“We had a wonderful time.”
“What happened?”

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Read part 1

Dying from Acute Appendicitis

When they brought me home helpless, we prayed all night.

Edited and transcribed by Colin Melbourne from The Pentecostal Evangel dated March 1923

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Fetch ‘is Clothes

They would not listen to the request, for they were expecting the boy to die.

© 19 Colin Melbourne Edited from The Pentecostal Evangel 1943

I anointed him in the Name of the Lord, and asked the Lord to raise him up.

Apparently, there was no change

God often hides what He does.