Clothed with the Spirit

Clothed with the Spirit

By Smith Wigglesworth

Interpretation of Tongues


God has sent His Word to free us from the “law of sin and death.” 

Except we die, we cannot live; 

except we cease to be, God cannot be.


The Holy Spirit has a royal plan, a heavenly plan. He came to unveil the King, to show the character of God, to unveil the precious blood of Jesus. 


Because I have the Holy Spirit within me, I see Jesus clothed for humanity. 

He was moved by the Spirit, led by the Spirit. 

We read of some who heard the Word of God but did not benefit from it because faith was lacking in them (Heb. 4:2). 

We must have a living faith in God’s Word, a faith that is quickened by the Spirit.


A man may be saved and still be carnally minded. 

When many people hear about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, their carnal minds at once arise against the Holy Spirit. 

“The carnal mind…is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be” 

(Rom. 8:7). 


One time, Jesus’ disciples wanted to call down fire from heaven as a punishment against a Samaritan village for not welcoming Him. 

But Jesus said to them, 

“You do not know what manner of spirit you are of” (Luke 9:55).


For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 

Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

(2 Cor. 5:4–5)


When we are clothed with the Spirit, our human depravity is covered and everything that is contrary to the mind of God is destroyed. 

God must have people for Himself who are being clothed with a heavenly habitation, perfectly prepared by the Holy Spirit for the Day of the Lord.

“For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven” (v. 2).


Was Paul speaking here only about the coming of the Lord? No.

Yet this condition of preparedness on earth is related to our heavenly state. 


The Holy Spirit is coming to take out of the world a church that is a perfect bride. 

He must find in us perfect yieldedness, with every desire subjected to Him. 

He has come to reveal Christ in us so that the glorious flow of the life of God may flow out of us, bringing rivers of living water to the thirsty land.


“If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness” 

(Rom. 8:10). 

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