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Power in the Name
Recently I was up in Sweden. Sitting across the table from me was a missionary from North Africa, from Tunis. One day she told us this story. She had a friend, a sister missionary in Algiers. And this sister missionary told her of an Arab woman whom she had won to Christ. The Arab woman was a Mohammedan, with all the fanaticism, ignorance and superstition that marks that strange Mohammedan belief or superstition. This woman was won for Christ. Her family did their best to sway her from her new faith. They coaxed, pleaded, argued, threatened, made her life miserable, but she showed the quality of her faith by her firm, quiet stand. She could not be moved. She knew she was right.
Then they did what is characteristic of that people, they concocted a poison, very subtle, very deadly, and put it into her food, of course secretly. When she had eaten the meal in which the poison had been introduced, she knew quickly what had taken place. She felt the poison. She knew full well about the poison, how deadly it was. She knew the habit of her people. As she felt the thing in her blood, she knew instantly what had happened. And she knew this, that through the poison she was doomed to death. She knew it. You can fancy just how she felt as the poison worked. It would make one very irritable and mean in spirit, then very dull in mind, then it would affect the mind still more, and then the body, until death would come. That was the course it usually ran. And she was greatly startled and greatly distressed, and didn't know what to do.
As she sat at the table, I think without planning it, she commenced to repeat the Name, the great Name. She could not repeat it aloud, for that would mean persecution by those around her. And so to herself, with all the intensity of one who felt the sentence of death in her body, she commenced to repeat that marvellous Name above every name, "Jesus! Jesus!! Jesus!!!" For two days or three, my friend was not sure which, that went on, and the poison gradually receded from the woman's body, from her blood, while the family watched her with strange eyes. This was something new. The poison had never failed before. But it was failing.
And as she herself told the story to the missionary, she said, "I felt as though each time I said that Name it was like a wave of life coming in; and in between like a wave of death." And the conflict between life and death went on for those days, but the death becoming less and the life more, until at the end of the second day or the third, she was free, to their utter astonishment, and to her own great joy.
That was a victory in the body, a possible thing as the Holy Spirit guides. But it is only a bit of the larger possibility. We have the right, as we are obedient, to use that Name. As we do use it, under the Holy Spirit's guidance, going step by step as He leads, we may take out of the hand of the evil one, men, and women, and property, and gold, and all that we need, because the Lord Jesus has said—"All authority hath been given unto me over all the earth." Shall we go out and take, in Jesus' Name, what belongs to us by the right of His death and resurrection?