Around the World in 88 Years -E Book - Arthur Burt

good on the outside but are rotten on the inside as “…whitedsepulchres…full of dead men’s bones”. (Matt 23:27)I didn’t prepare my message ahead of time, because my goal wasto speak as the Spirit would give me utterance. In this way, theHoly Spirit could cause me to say what I didn’t know, but thismeant the first person who needed to listen to my ministry wasme.As I ministered that night, all of a sudden, what I had seen back inthe Midlands, I saw in Lancashire. The people began to heaveover, lost in the presence of God. Many of them went down onthe floor as the Holy Spirit took the leadership of the meetingout of my hands.The people were gone with God, including this pastor who wasas smartly dressed as if she had come out of a fashion parade.Here she was, prostrate on the platform, hat off, one shoe off,hair all over her face, rubbing her face on the carpet and sobbing.She was oblivious to her personal appearance, which, at the beginning,was obviously a number one with her — but she wasgone. The people were gone. They were all gone in the presenceof God except me.I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know whether the wholeplace was going to explode into a fire of fanaticism or extremismor what. I only knew I had lost control of the meeting and thepeople had forgotten me. I was frantic and helpless, like a manwho wanted to pour buckets of cold water to put out a fire, buthad no buckets of cold water. No one listened to me. It was awaste of time talking, preaching or doing anything. This went onevery night for two weeks. Day after day and night after night,the young pastor was drinking out of me, like blotting paper,what I was ministering.Then… thoughts rose up in me. And as far as I understand ittoday, I believe I touched the glory. The story of Uzzah illustrateswhat I mean by “touching the glory”. Uzzah touched the ark,and God struck him dead. Another example is King Herod who,on a certain day, gave a great oration and the people exclaimed,“It is the voice of a god and not of a man.” Immediately theangel of the Lord smote him with worms in his bowels, and he66