Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf
shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the
tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out,
and streams in the desert. - Isa. 35:5-6
Surely we can trust the Holy Spirit to take care of His own
work. If we can trust Him for small manifestations, why can we not
trust Him for mighty ones? In the Book of Acts, we see how He restrains
as well as constrains. He vindicated His deity when He restrained sin
in the church through the death of Ananias and Sapphira. His
restraining influence is again seen when He forbade Paul on two
occasions to enter into fields of his own choosing. We need not be
afraid of the Spirit.
I have known the Holy Spirit to take away from me the human control of
the campaign and make Himself the chairman of the meetings. Often
times, I was not allowed to preach, as the meeting was under the
control of the Spirit by day and night after night. I simply sat on the
platform bowed in prayer. I prayed that the Spirit of Pentecost would
restrain or constrain and that no demon in hell would be able to work -
that so powerful would be His presence that there would be no
possibility of a fleshly manifestation. We can testify to God's glory
that the gatherings were kept under the Spirit's control as He led the
believers one by one to praise, pray, expound, and testify. Instead of
only myself taking part, hundreds of ordinary believers ministered in
the meetings during several weeks. We were "borne along and impelled by
the Holy Spirit" (II Peter 1:21).
Many want a “dignified” revival or no revival at all. They do not want
anybody’s feelings hurt or people’s sense of orderliness insulted. That
blessed man, Duncan Campbell, told me once that after speaking to a
ministerial group concerning the mighty manifestations of God in
Hebrides, one pastor declared, “If that is revival, I for one, do not
want it!” What a tragedy. As E. W. Mills has so beautifully stated:
