His grandmother was an old-time Wesleyan, and she always made sure that Smith attended meetings with her when she could. Smith’s younger years were marked by a hunger for God, even though his parents were not Christians at the time. Smith was born in a small village near Menston, Yorkshire in England on June 8, 1859. During these decades his ministry of faith and miracles changed the face of Christianity and set the stage for the Charismatic Renewal that would restore the ministry of the Holy Spirit to the modern church. Where other Pentecostal ministers would emerge overnight and then disappear from the public scene almost as quickly, Smith Wigglesworth traveled widely from after the death of his wife in 1913 until not long before his death in 1947. While he was not the catalyst for breakthrough revivals such as the one in Wales led by Evan Roberts in 1904 or that of the Azusa Street Mission in 1906 that was led by William Seymour, it was Smith Wigglesworth’s steady faith and staying power that made the Pentecostal revival the most significant Christian movement of the twentieth century. It is arguable that there is no more significant patriarch of the Pentecostal Movement than Smith Wigglesworth. I saw that God wants us so badly that He has made the condition as si mple as He possibly could-“Only Believe.” May God stirs you to move in the Healing Ministry in your local church and in the nations. The Lord used him in the Healing Ministry around the world. I am really inspired by the life of Smith Wigglesworth.
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