Maria Woodworth-Etter was an outstanding preacher of the Gospel who saw amazing signs and wonders attending her ministry. By the time the Pentecostal movement was born in 1906 Maria, in her early sixties already, had two-and-a-half decades of Pentecostal ministry under her belt!
She was an itinerant evangelist who travelled coast–to-coast across the United States holding meetings in church halls, Gospel tents and public buildings. Though simply evangelistic in the early days, supernatural signs began to accompany her service very soon. People fell into trances, experienced visions of heaven and hell, collapsed on the floor as if they’d been shot or had died. Thousands were healed of a wide variety of sicknesses and diseases and many believers, even ministers, received mighty baptisms of the Holy Spirit.
This book was compiled later in her ministry to share the general content of her spoken ministry.
Chapters:
The first three chapters are a brief overview of her life:
I. My Birth and Marriage
II. Preparation for Service
III. Progress in Preparation
There follows twenty-two sermons:
IV. Death is Certain! What Will Follow?
V. The Pale Horse and His Rider
VI. The Wonderful Power of the Word of God
VII. The Two Greatest Religious Movements in History
VIII. Divine Healing
IX. I Am the Lord that Healeth Thee
X. Visions
XI. Dancing in the Spirit
XII. The Great Commission
XIII. The Spirit Reveals the Deep Things of God
XIV. Christ's Great Revival on the Plains Our Example
XV. Will Ye Also Go Away?
XVI. The Promise of the Father, Life, Power and Gifts
XVII. The Latter Rain
XVIII. The Blood and Fire Mark
XIX. The Seal of God on His People
XX. The Last Call of Mercy
XXI. The Unpardonable Sin
XXII. The Second Coming of Christ
XXIII. The Closing of the Gentile Age
XXIV. The Marriage Supper of The Lamb
XXV. Christ and His Bride
XXVI. Brief Summary of the Tabernacle Work
First published 1921. 208 pages.
Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844 - 1924)
Born in 1844 in rural, central Ohio, to non Christian parents, Maria was converted to Christ at age thirteen and soon after called to evangelism. Nevertheless, she pushed the call of God aside and laboured with all her heart at caring for her family and being a homemaker. One by one, the Lord saw fit to call five of her six precious children home to Him. In regard to The Lord calling her to ministry, she would make excuses that she would be glad to if only she were a man. Then the Lord in a vision caused her to see "the bottomless pit open in all its horror and woe...It was surrounded by a great multitude of people who seemed unconscious of their danger.." After the death of her fifth child, she entered a period of illness nigh unto death. Her recovery was swift after agreeing that she would finally answer His call to reach the perishing.She asked The Lord qualify her for the work and He answered by gloriously baptizing her in the Holy Spirit and anointing her for service. The phenomenon of trances and of people falling under the power of the Holy Ghost were known to occur during her meetings -- with the result of incredible numbers of even the most notorious sinners gloriously and lastingly converted to Christ. The Lord also gave her the gift of healing. Eventually, because of his adultery, she filed for divorce from her first husband Philo Woodworth who died in 1892. Several years later she married Samuel Etter, who ably assisted her evangelistic work. By 1912, she was involved with the Pentecostal movement and was a featured evangelist across the country. But truly The Lord gave Maria Woodworth-Etter a "Pentecostal" ministry decades before the Pentecostal movement ever began.
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