When We Stop Going Forward 6/22 Monday Meditation

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: When We Stop Going Forward 6/22 Monday Meditation Beloved, whenever we stop going forward, we go to milling around. When an individual stops going forward for God, he begins to go in a circle, just as a man when lost in a forest ceases to go straight forward but wanders in a circle. So it was with the early church. When they ceased to go forward, they started wandering in a circle and became lost in the Dark Ages. The Devil... removed the cross, offering them titles, positions, honor, salaries, profits of every kind -- and they fell for it. They no longer needed to look for God for their protection and support... And so it is with our great church bodies of today. History repeats itself in every movement through human weakness and failure. -- Frank Bartleman (historian of the Azusa Revival)

Like a Sponge 6/19 Friday Faith

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Like a Sponge 6/19 Friday Faith ...Believe it, accept it, and get more of Jesus. If we take in and take in and do not give out, we are like a sponge that needs to be squeezed. Let us get so full that it will run right out through us, and not absorb and absorb, and never give out. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

We Tie God's Hands 6/18 Thursday Thoughts

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: We Tie God's Hands 6/18 Thursday Thoughts "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8)! God never changes. We have changed. We are not waiting for God. God is waiting for us. The Holy Spirit is given; we are still in the dispensation opened on the Day of Pentecost. But God can only work when we are willing, yielded, and obedient. We tie God's hands. -- Frank Bartleman

Forgive and Forget 6/17 Wednesday Wisdom

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Forgive and Forget 6/17 Wednesday Wisdom 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. That 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 our past mistakes and failures. You must forget them too. -- E. W. Kenyon.

Lift Up Jesus 6/16 Tuesday Truth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Lift Up Jesus 6/16 Tuesday Truth There never was such a responsibility on the people of God as there is today. There never was such a time for Jesus Christ to be lifted up as He is today. Gods of science and nature and other gods are on the earth today. At a gathering of 23 ministers in Boston, only three accepted the divinity of Christ. We have to drop all side issues and hobbies, everything else but Jesus; we must lift up Jesus. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844-1924)

Something Wonderful 6/25 Monday Meditation

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Something Wonderful 6/15 Monday Meditation All heaven is waiting is hear the shout, "Go forth and meet her." Something wonderful is going to take place soon. The Mighty God, who inhabits eternity, and all the heavenly hosts have been waiting thousands of years for this great event: for the mystical body to come together -- Christ our living Head, and the bride, the living body -- for the Marriage of the Son of God, the Great Jehovah. "For the marriage of the Lamb is come" (Rev. 19:7). -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Be As One Family 6/12 Friday Faith

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Be As One Family 6/12 Friday Faith This is another favorite quote that I repeat annually. We should be as one family, which we are, at home in God's house anywhere. We belong to the whole body of Christ, both in heaven and on earth. God's church is one. It is a terrible thing to go about dismembering the body of Christ. How foolish and wicked the petty differences between Christians will appear in the light of eternity. -- Frank Bartleman, historian of the Azusa Street Revival