The Power Generator
A story is told about Aimee Semple McPherson's power. She was quite different from most Pentecostal women—and especially women preachers—in the 1930s and 1940s. She'd say, "Who cares about all the do's and don'ts? I'm going to dress nice. I'm going to wear my wedding band. I'm going to put on lipstick."
She did it, too. She was a very attractive woman. She got more people saved and healed in her meetings than most—despite the jewelry, makeup, and all.
In some of her meetings, people on one whole side of a hall would be slain in the Spirit. Newspapermen wanted desperately to prove she was a fraud.
One night she was preaching in a big hall in Ohio. A reporter got a brilliant idea of how he could prove Aimee was a fake. He was convinced she was rigged up with an electrical wire, and when she touched a person, it shocked them and knocked them out!
The reporter asked an usher, "Where's the power generator in this building?"
The usher replied, "Oh, it's in the basement."
The reporter grabbed his trusty press camera and took off running for the basement. It was just the break he'd been looking for! He ran to the basement door and flung it open. There before his eyes was the power generator—50 little grandmas down on their knees praying!
Prayer was Aimee's generator of power. Prayer power is what knocked those people off their feet.
It doesn't matter who you are—if you don't pray, you won't make it. Not the way God intends for you to, anyway. You'll spend your days in the valley instead of up on the mountaintop with God.
People of prayer spend hours on their knees before God. Wigglesworth was such a person. God's power operated so strongly in his ministry that it totally astounded people.
One time Wigglesworth walked up to a corpse, picked it out of the coffin, and commanded life to come back into the body. The person had been dead for three days! But Wigglesworth knew God's power could raise her from the dead. After he prayed, the woman opened her eyes and said, "Hello!" That's power.
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