(From the book ‘Smith Wigglesworth on Faith’ pp 39)
When I was ministering to the sick, a man came among the crowd. If you had seen him, your heart would have ached for him. He was shriveled and weakened; his neck bones were sticking out, his eyes sunk and his neck all shriveled. He was just a form of a man. His coat hung on him as you would put it on some stick. He whispered, for he could only speak with a weak voice, “Can you help me?”
I asked “What is it?” He said that he had had cancer of his stomach, and on the operation table they had taken away the cancer. But in the operation they made it so that the man could not swallow.
He said, “I have tried to take the juice of a cherry today, but it would not go down.” Then he pulled out a tube about nine inches long, which had a cup at the top. He whispered, “I have a hole in my stomach. As I pour liquid in, my stomach receives that. I have been living this way for three months.”
You could call it a shadow of life he was living. Could I help him? Look! This Book can help anybody. This Book is the essence of life. God moves as you believe. This Book is the Word of God. Could I help him?
I said, “On the authority of this Word, this night you will have a big supper.”
But he said he could not eat.
“Do as I tell you.” I answered.
“How can it be?” “It is time,” I said, “to go and eat a good supper.” He went home and told his wife.
She could not understand it. She said, “You cannot eat. You cannot swallow.”
But he whispered, “The man said I had to do it.”
He got hungry and hungrier and ventured, “I will try it.”
His wife got his supper ready. He got a mouthful, and it went down just as easy as possible. He went on eating food until he was filled up. Then he and his wife had one of the best times of their lives. The next morning he was so full of joy because he had eaten again. He looked down out of curiosity to see the hole and found that God had closed it up!
But you ask, Can He do it for me? Yes, if you believe it. Faith is the victory.