Smith Wigglesworth

== Ministry ==
Wigglesworth believed that healing came through faith, and he was flexible in his approach. When he was forbidden to lay hands on audience members by the authorities in [[Sweden]], he preached for a "corporate healing", by which people laid hands on themselves. He also practiced anointing with oil, and the distribution of "prayer handkerchiefs" (one of which was sent to King [[George V]]). Wigglesworth sometimes attributed ill-health to [[demons]].<ref name=":0" />

Wigglesworth largely believed his ministerial success was due to his [[Baptism with the Holy Spirit]]. He said: ''"I want you to see that he that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself or builds himself up. We must be edified before we can edify the church. I cannot estimate what I, personally, owe to the Holy Ghost method of spiritual edification. I am here before you as one of the biggest conundrums in the world. There never was a weaker man on the platform. Language? None. Inability–full of it. All natural things in my life point exactly opposite to my being able to stand on the platform and preach the gospel. The secret is that the Holy Ghost came and brought this wonderful edification of the Spirit. I had been reading this Word continually as well as I could, but the Holy Ghost came and took hold of it, for the Holy Ghost is the breath of it, and He illuminated it to me."''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://tithehacker.org/praying-in-the-spirit/|title=The Ultimate Guide to Praying in the Spirit (2018 Edition)|date=2018-02-25|work=Tithehacker.org|access-date=2018-08-04|language=en-US}}</ref>

[[File:Smith Wigglesworth praying for a sick woman.jpg|thumb|left|Smith Wigglesworth praying for a sick woman]]
Ministering at many churches throughout Yorkshire, often at Bethesda Church at [[Swallownest]] (on the outskirts of [[Sheffield]]), Wigglesworth claimed to have made many prophecies. He also had an international ministry. He ministered in the [[United States|U.S.]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[South Africa]], [[Sweden]], the [[Pacific Islands]], [[India]], [[Ceylon]], and several countries in [[Europe]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wigglesworth.born-again-christian.info/|title=Smith Wigglesworth Sermons Biography and Books|last=Melbourne|first=Colin|website=wigglesworth.born-again-christian.info|language=en|access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref> Some of his sermons were transcribed for Pentecostal magazines, and these were collected into two books: ''Ever Increasing Faith''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/wigglesworth/5f00.0930/5f00.0930.c.htm|title=Ever Increasing Faith|last=Wigglesworth|first=Smith|date=1924|website=www.worldinvisible.com|publisher=GOSPEL PUBLISHING HOUSE|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021201100417/http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/wigglesworth/5f00.0930/5f00.0930.c.htm|archive-date=2002-12-01|url-status=dead|access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref><ref>[http://www.spiritoffire.org/downloads/Ever%20Increasing%20Faith.pdf ''Ever Increasing Faith''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030716184047/http://spiritoffire.org/downloads/Ever%20Increasing%20Faith.pdf |date=2003-07-16 }}, (PDF) 1924. Zao Ministries International</ref> and ''Faith that Prevails''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.evangelo.org/biblioteca/Faith_That_Prevails.pdf|title=Faith That Prevails|last=Wigglesworth|first=Smith|year=1938}}</ref>

He continued to minister until the time of his death on 12 March 1947.<ref name="Stormont">{{cite book |last1=Stormont |first1=George |title=Smith Wigglesworth : a living classic : a man who walked with God |date=15 June 2009 |publisher=Harrison House Publishers |isbn=978-1577949756}}</ref>
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