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  KNOWING OUR NEED
  by Smith Wigglesworth
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Summary: The sermon highlights the necessity of recognizing our need for
God and approaching Him with humility and faith for healing and
redemption.

Topics: "Dependence On God", "Humility"
Scripture References: Mark 5:25, Mark 5:28, Revelation 3:11

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DESCRIPTION
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Smith Wigglesworth emphasizes the importance of recognizing our need for
God, illustrated through the story of the woman who touched Jesus'
clothes to be healed. He highlights that true humility and brokenness
are essential for God to work through us, as seen in Jacob's journey.
Wigglesworth encourages believers to come to God in their emptiness, as
it is in our helplessness that we find His strength. He reminds us that
our self-sufficiency can hinder our relationship with God and our
ability to receive His blessings. Ultimately, we must yield to the
Spirit and embrace our calling to serve others.

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If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.

--Mark 5:28

Scripture reading: Mark 5:25-6:6

What a privilege to care for the flock of God, to be used by God to
encourage the people, to help stand against the many trials that affect
the needy. What a holy calling! We each have our own work, and we must
do it, so that boldness may be ours in the day of the Master's
appearing, and so that no man can take our crowns (Rev. 3:11). Since the
Lord is always encouraging us, we have encouragement for others. We must
have a willingness, a ready mind, a yielding to the mind of the Spirit.
There is no place for the child of God in God's great plan except in
humility.

God can never do all He wants to do, all that He came to do through the
Word, until He gets us to the place where He can trust us, and where we
are in abiding fellowship with Him in His great plan for the world's
redemption. We have this truth illustrated in the life of Jacob. It took
God twenty-one years to bring Jacob to the place of humility, contrition
of heart, and brokenness of Spirit. God even gave him power to wrestle
with strength, and Jacob said, "I think I can manage after all," until
God touched his thigh, making him know that he was mortal and that he
was dealing with immortality. As long as we think we can save ourselves,
we will try to do it.

In Mark 5:25-34, we have the story of the woman who had suffered many
things from many physicians and had spent all that she had. She was no
better but rather grew worse. She said, "If only I may touch His
clothes, I shall be made well." She came to know her need. It is when we
are empty and undone, when we come to God in our nothingness and
helplessness, that He picks us up.

Thought for today: Our full cupboard is often our greatest hindrance.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/smith-wigglesworth/knowing-our-need/
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