Feast of Tabernacles -- Happy Birthday, Jesus! 9/25 Friday Faith

FEAST OF TABERNACLES -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS! The final and most joyous festival of the year begins at sundown [Friday, Sept. 25] and continues for seven days. It is called Feast of Tabernacles (or Shelters or Booths), Feast of Ingathering, Season of Our Rejoicing, or Sukkot. It celebrates God's care and protection during forty years of wandering in the wilderness and His continuing sustenance. All Jews made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. They made and lived in temporary shelters (sukkah booths) recalling their years of wandering. In modern times families or congregations build outdoor shelters filled with harvest decorations. It was during the Feast of Tabernacles' illumination ceremony that Jesus said, "I am the light of the world." It was during the water pouring ceremony that Jesus said, "I am the living water." There is evidence by comparing time frames in the Scriptures to prove that Jesus was born during the Feast of Tabernacles and that He will return during the Feast of Tabernacles. "Jesus is God tabernacling among men. The word _dwelt_ in Greek implies a temporary dwelling, a sukkah booth. Jesus is God's ultimate sukkah booth. For God, in Jesus Christ, tabernacles among men. As the Temple was a temporary dwelling for the Shekinah (visible Glory of God), so Jesus tabernacling among us manifested the glory of God. He is the source of light and life to all who believe." (The Fall Feasts of Israel, by Mitch and Zhava Glaser)

Father, Forgive Me 9/24 Thursday Thoughts

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Father, Forgive Me 9/24 Thursday Thoughts I look up to the Father and say, "Father, forgive me for doing that thing." And the moment I do, He forgives me. It is wiped out as though it had never been. The instant that I confess it and tell the Father of it, Jesus says, "Lay that to My account." Notice that the Father has no memory of your past mistakes and failures. You must forget them too. --E. W. Kenyon

Our Righteous Advocate 9/23 Wednesday Wisdom

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Our Righteous Advocate 9/23 Wednesday Wisdom "My little children, these things I write unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." [I John 2:1] I think that that is one of the most marvelous statements in the whole of the Epistles. Seated at the Father's right hand is our righteous Advocate; and the minute that I break fellowship, He is there in fellowship with the Father. I lose my sense of righteousness. He is the Righteous One. He is there, in the Presence of the Father, to plead my case. --E. W. Kenyon

Righteousness 9/22 Tuesday Truth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Righteousness 9/22 Tuesday Truth God wants to fix it in our hearts that we are to be like Him; like Him in character. God wants righteousness in the inward parts, that we may be pure through and through. The Bible is the plumb line of everything, and unless we are plumbed right up with the Word of God, we will fail in righteousness. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Be Eager to Pray 9/21 Monday Meditation

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Be Eager to Pray 9/21 Monday Meditation In the early Azusa [Revival] days, you could hardly keep the saints off their knees. Whenever two believers met, they invariably went to prayer. Today we can harldy be dragged to prayer. Some make as much fuss about it as the old camel does in the East in kneeling to receive his load. He fusses and bites and groans before the driver can bring him down. -- Frank Bartleman.

Hindrance to the Work of God 9/18 Friday Faith

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Hindrance to the Work of God 9/18 Friday Faith The natural strength and ability of man are always the greatest hindrance to the work of God, and to God's working. -- Frank Bartleman (historian of the Azusa Revival)

Joy in Our Spirit 9/17 Thursday Thoughts

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Joy in Our Spirit 9/17 Thursday Thoughts One day I saw that the secret of Christianity, the secret of evangelism, was that we were to have joy in our spirits. You remember Acts 13:52, "And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit." I Peter 1:8 tells us that it is joy unspeakable and full of glory. That didn't mean much to me until the Spirit unveiled it to me. Then I saw the secret of this new thing that was to come with the New Creation. "My joy I give unto you." This is something indescribable that fills our spirits. What does joy grow out of? What is the secret? I Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." Fellowship is the secret, it is the thing that gives joy. When the fellowship is broken, the joy dies. -- E. W. Kenyon