12/17 Friday faith

This will be the last post until the new year. We will be going away for a few days, and I will be taking a break the other few days, reading and finding new material. I'll return with Smith Wigglesworth in the new year.

Have a blessed Christmas season.

There is no sin in love. The sin is stepping out of love.

Sin is never attractive when we have a deep rich fellowship with the Father. When fellowship is at floodtide, sin has no seductive power over us.

Sin is breaking fellowship with love. . . . Sin is letting the desires of the senses rule, letting the senses gain control. When the senses run riot, God is forgotten.

The New Creation man is to practise love and develop his spirit so that it becomes a master over his senses.

-- E.W. Kenyon

12/16 Thursday thoughts

There are only two great forces in the world today; they are love and selfishness.

Every sin that a believer commits begins in selfishness. Selfishness may lead him into a host of different kinds of sin, but there is only one basic sin, and that is selfishness.

Someone has said that the "I, my, me and mine" are the four highways into the realm of broken fellowship.

Sin then, for the believer, is reverting to the practices of the former life. It is a denial of the dominion of love. It is seeking to find satisfaction in the realm of selfishness.

Selfishness causes all of the misery and heartache in our homes.

The cure for broken fellowship is the study of the Word and the practice of the Word, the living of the Word, and the "doing of the Word." (to be continued)

-- E. W. Kenyon

12/15 Wednesday wisdom

We know that no Word from God can be broken. We know that Jesus is the Word. We know that the Word is backed up by the Throne, the Father and the Master.

We know that the great, mighty Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is dwelling in us, unveiling the Word to our hearts. He is unveiling the reality of the Living Word, the reality of our relationship and His Indwelling . . .

We stand complete in His completeness.

"Of His fulness have we all received and grace upon grace."

-- E. W. Kenyon

12/14 Tuesday truth

I John 2:1 "My little children these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." He is the family Lawyer. He is the Attorney General of the Family of God.

When we break fellowship and ask the Father's forgiveness, our Advocate immediately takes up our case and restores our lost fellowship.

It is vital that we know this.

There is only one basic sin that the believer commits. When that sin is committed, it may throw the door open for a thousand others. That sin is breaking the love law. We are to walk in love.

-- E. W. Kenyon

12/13 Monday meditation

You see, an affirmation is the expression of our faith . . .

Some people are always confessing their faith in diseases, their faith in failure and calamity. You will hear them confessing that their children are disobedient and that their husband or wife is not doing what is right.

They constantly confess failure and doubts. They little realize that that confession robs them of their ability and efficiency.

They little realize that that confession can change the solid, hard road into a boggy, clogged mire, but it is true. This confession of weakness will bind and hold you in captivity.

Talk poverty and you will have plenty of it. Confess your want, your lack of money all of the time, and you will always have a lack.

Your confession is the expression of your faith, and these confessions of lack and of sickness shut the Father God out of your life and let Satan in, giving him the right-of-way.

Confessions of failure give disease and failure dominion over your life. They honor Satan and rob God of His glory.

-- E. W. Kenyon

12/10 Friday faith

The man who believes the Word simply thanks the Father for the Word when he prays. He never tells the Father he believes. He does not need to . . .

We know what we are. "Nay in all these things we are more than victors."

Storms will come, but He is in the boat with us, and you will hear His voice say, "Peace, be still."

When your heart is rooted in the Word, when you have studied it and lived it and it abides in you, you will know what to do when the storm comes. If you have been a spiritual hitch-hiker, depending upon the prayers of someone else, you would be in a desperate position if the storm should break upon you. It is vitally important that you "study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman who needs not to be ashamed."

-- E.W. Kenyon

12/9 Thursday thoughts

Many people who have trusted in physical evidences of the Holy Spirit's indwelling never have any confession of His presence, because they do not confess His indwelling, they only confess His incoming.

They talk boldly about their baptism in the Holy Spirit and the evidences they received at that time, but they do not confess that "greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world."

There is no continual confession on their lips of His present power and ability in them.

I have found that I must continually confess that He is in me. In every address that I give I confess that God is living in me, and that He is ministering through me.

"For it is God who is at work within you, willing and working his own good pleasure."

-- E.W. Kenyon

12/8 Wednesday wisdom

(continued from Monday and Tuesday)

Now you can see the value of holding fast to your confession.

Your confession either makes you a conqueror, or it defeats you. You rise or fall to the level of your confession.

Learn to hold fast to your confession in the hard places. . . .


The time to make your confession is when Satan attacks you. You feel the pain coming in your body. You repudiate it. You command it to leave in the Name of Jesus.

Romans 8:31-37 "If God is for us, who is against us?" Your Father is for you.

Disease cannot conquer you, nor can the author if disease. Circumstances cannot master you, because the Father and Jesus are greater than any circumstances.

You have learned that in whatsoever circumstance or condition you are , to rejoice in your continual victory.

--E. W. Kenyon

12/7 Tuesday truth

(continued from Monday)

It is the positive, clear-cut confession that wins.

"I know in whom I have believed."

"I know that no word from God is void of power or fulfillment."

"I know that He watches over His word to make it good."

These are the confession of a victor.

I want you to notice several facts about the relation of confession to faith.

Your confession is your faith. If it be a neutral confession, you have neutral faith. If it is a negative confession, it is unbelief dominating your spirit.

Unbelief grows with a negative confession. A confession of failure puts failure on the throne. If I confess weakness, weakness dominates me. If I confess my sickness, I am held in bondage by it.

These negative confessions are acknowledgments of Satan's dominion over God's tabernacle.

Your spirit always responds to your confession.

(to be continued) -- E.W. Kenyon

12/6 Monday meditation

You remember Phil. 4:6,7 "In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus."

Why must prayer be made with thanksgiving? That means that I know the thing is done. I asked for it and now I have it, so I thank the Father for it.

The seventh verse says, "And the peace of God which passeth all understanding will fill my heart."

I am not worrying any longer. I have it. I am not going to get the money I need . . . I have it. It is just as real as though it were in my pocket. I am not going to get my healing . . I have my healing because I have His Word, and my heart is filled with rapture.

(to be continued) -- E. W. Bounds

12/3 Friday faith: Hanukkah

Hanukkah (the Festival of Dedication or Festival of Light) began Wed., Dec. 1, at sundown and continues for eight nights. It is a minor holiday, not one of the six festivals commanded by God. Hanukkah should remind us Christians of the Light coming into the world, and that God still does miracles.

We do not seek for Righteousness. We are made the Righteousness of God in Christ.

We do not seek for power, because we are believers. We are not doubters, we are the true Sons of God.

We are men who act upon the Father's Word just as Jesus acted on His Father's Word.

This new order of Life . . . has made us Masters in the Name of Jesus over the forces that have held us in bondage all our lives, has become a Living Reality.

--E.W. Kenyon

12/2 Thursday thoughts

I say, "Jesus died for my sins according to scripture, and I now acknowledge Him as my Lord," and I know that the instant I acknowledge Him as my Lord I have Eternal Life.

I cannot have Eternal Life until I confess that I have it. . . .

The same thing is true in regard to healing. I confess that "By His stripes I am healed," and the disease is still in my body. . . .

I make the confession that "by His stripes I am healed"; the disease and its symptoms may not leave my body at once, but I hold fast to my confession.

I know that what He has said He is able to make good.

I know that I am healed because He said I was healed, and it makes no difference what the symptoms may be in my body. I laugh at them, and in the Name of Jesus I command the author of disease to leave my body.

He is defeated, and I am a victor.

I have learned this law, that when I boldly confess, then, and then only, do I possess.

-- E.W. Kenyon

12/1 Wednesday wisdom

Matt. 19:26 "And nothing is impossible to God."

Matt. 9:23 "All things are possible to him that believeth."

There has come the union of man with God. God's ability has been linked with man's inability and has swallowed it up. His very weakness is God's opportunity. "When I am weak, then am I strong."

"Nothing shall be impossible unto you." God is speaking in person to you. Just as food rejuvenates the body, so the Word rejuvenates faith in our spirits.

When will we ever learn that He and His Word are one. His is the surety of the New Covenant. He watches over His Word. He lives in His Word. His ability is in His Word.

It is Jesus speaking through your lips when you use the Word.

-- E. W. Kenyon

11/24 Wednesday wisdom

This will be my last quotation until next Tuesday or Wednesday, as I will be on vacation over the Thanksgiving holiday. Wishing you all a blessed Thanksgiving!

There is a sick one. The Word in your lips now will take the place of Jesus. If Jesus were here, He would say, "Son, you are healed." You say, "Son, by His stripes you are healed." You are using His Word. That is your confession, that His Word now has become the healer in your lips.

There is another one who is held in bondage by Satan. You remember what He said, "They that believe shall cast out demons." Fearlessly you speak the Word, "Satan, in Jesus' Name leave this person. Go off into the abyss where you belong."

You are quoting the very words of Christ. Your lips become the pulpit of Jesus Christ.

Faith grows with this confession. Faith is no grater than your confession.

Every time you break the silence caused by fear with an open confession of the integrity of the Word, and you act on the Word, you destroy the very roots of fear and unbelief in your life . . .

The Word has not lost its ability. Its ability is measured by its Author's ability.

-- E.W. Kenyon

11/23 Tuesday truth

[Faith] must be fed continually upon the Word of God and upon our acting on that Word.

Simply reading the Word, meditating on the Word, will not build faith. It will build a capacity for faith, but faith is only built when that Word becomes a part of our daily use, our daily conduct -- a part of our daily speech.

As faith grows, Satan's dominion over us wanes. Circumstances are less formidable. Fear is destroyed. As your faith grows, you begin to possess your rights in Christ. . . .

You begin to enjoy what you formerly "mentally assented" to.

You have said, "Yes, by His stripes I am healed, but I am sick." You have agreed with the Word, but you have not acted upon it . . . you have merely assented to it. Now you have reached the place where you no longer hope for it, but you look up and say, "Father, I thank Thee that I am what you say I am."

What you have mentally assented to, you now possess.

Believing is possessing. What you assented to for years, you now enjoy. Faith grows in the atmosphere of confession of the Word.

-- E.W. Kenyon

11/22 Monday meditation

As a child of God, never seek experiences. Nearly all the experiences are in the senses and these experiences do not give faith in the Word. They give faith in Man's word.

They believe in healing because they saw men healed. They believe in speaking in tongues because they heard them.

I believe in healing because the Word teaches it. I believe in speaking in tongues because the Word teaches it, not because someone else has spoken in tongues, or has been healed, or has had some other wonderful experience.

Never give an experience the first place in your life. The Word must have that.

We do not need to seek the Holy Spirit, He has already been given. He is here.

Luke 11:13, "How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?"

-- E.W. Kenyon

11/19 Friday faith

Let me read you Eph. 3:20, "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think, according to the ability of God that is at work within us."

The heart almost stops.

Can this be true, that the One who raised Jesus from the dead has come into these bodies of ours and brought into us the Ability that was exercised in that mighty miracle of the resurrection of Jesus?

It is true, He has come in! He has come in with His ability, His wisdom, His love and grace.

-- E.W. Kenyon

11/18 Thursday thoughts

Those diseases were laid upon the spirit of the Son of God. He bore them away, and by His stripes we are healed. When He was made well in spirit, we were made well.

When He was made Righteous, we were made Righteous.

When He conquered the adversary, we conquered the adversary in Him. Here lies the secret of absolute success.

Jesus conquered the adversary on our behalf. If He did, then we today are conquerors; because, by His victory over the adversary, we won our victory.

-- E. W. Kenyon

11/17 Wednesday wisdom

The average Christian today is carnal, or sense-ruled. They are babes in Christ. They walk after the manner of men, or the senses. They have never learned the way of love.
They are full of talk, but they are not doers of the Word. Their wisdom is the wisdom of natural men. They are ever striving, but never arriving.

There is only one way to help these people, and that is to teach them how to take their place in Christ, to become doers of the Word, and not hearers only.

-- E.W. Kenyon

11/16 Tuesday truth

When a Believer is not joyful it is either because of broken fellowship or a lack of knowledge of what He is in Christ and what Christ is in him. He does not know what he is to the Father and what the Father can be to him. He has never entered into his inheritance in Christ.

It is vastly important that we know about our inheritance, that is, our present tense inheritance.

It is this unspeakable joy which makes you triumphant over the petty trials of life, and a victor over the trials that may come up.
-- E.W. Kenyon

11/15 Monday meditation

When the heart knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Father and Jesus are making their home in your home, you have a feeling of safety that no earthly or demoniacal power can destroy.

You have the "peace of God which passeth all understanding."

You are anchored in the spirit realm of love now.

Phil. 4:6,7 becomes a reality. "In nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God."

I have been invited to come boldly to the throne of Grace, the throne of love gifts. I know that whatsoever I ask of the Father in Jesus' Name I will receive. Because of this I have no anxiety.

I have entered into His rest. Why? The next verse tells us. "And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall guard your hearts and thoughts in Christ Jesus."

Your heart is safe-guarded. Your thoughts are safe-guarded.

I Peter 5:7 "Casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you."

Where there is anxiety there is no peace, and where there is no peace, there is no rest. Now we have entered into His protective care, it is the realm of His rest. This belongs to every believer.

-- E. W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man

11/12 Friday faith

If I am a New Creation, created in Christ Jesus, I must be a Righteous creation. If I am a new man, I must be free from bondage of the old man. What He says about Righteousness of the New Creation is true. Then my spirit is Righteous. If it is Righteous, then I can stand in the Father's presence without fear of judgment or condemnation.

"There is therefore now no condemnation to me, because I am in Christ Jesus, a New Creation, created in Righteousness and holiness and truth."

This very fact solves the whole problem of our enjoying the riches of the fullness of our Redemptive rights in Christ.

I am not afraid to act, because I know that all that Christ wrought, He wrought for me. His entire substitutionary work, from the time He was made sin until He sat down at the right hand of the Father, was all for me.

-- E.W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man

11/11 Thursday thoughts Veterans' Day

Faith is developed in the human spirit by the Word of God. It comes by acting on the Word.

That is your exercise. Every time you act upon the Word, faith becomes stronger. You could lie in bed until your limbs lose their ability to bear the rest of your body. So it is with faith, it must be continually exercised in order to develop it.

-- E.W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man

11/10 Wednesday wisdom

Remember Matthew 28:18-19: "All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore, and make students of the whole world." (Disciple means student.)

And these students have the authority that Jesus manifested in hell, today in that mighty Name.

If you could only realize this fact, that you actually have a legal right to the authority and power invested in Jesus' Name and you can use it.

You have the power of attorney to use Jesus' Name.

You are an absolute master of Satanic forces.

-- E.W. Kenyon

11/9 Tuesday truth

Can't you see the vital need of studying to find out what we really are in Christ? What the spirit, through the Word, has really wrought in us that has made us acceptable to Him until He can whisper, "You are in the Beloved."

That means you are as near the Father's heart as Jesus is.

-- E.W. Kenyon, What Happened from the Cross to the Throne

11/8 Monday meditation

I'm going back to E.W. Kenyon quotes for a week or two. I just found two Kenyon books on my shelf that I bought two years ago at a garage sale and haven't read.

E. W. Kenyon was a friend of A.B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and they often traded pulpits. Kenyon was a strong influence on Simpson in his day, and on Kenneth E. Hagin much later on. Kenyon is considered a forerunner of the Word of Faith movement.

Kenyon tends to write each sentence as a separate paragraph, and nearly every sentence is worthy of an extended discussion on it own.

Righteousness ... means the ability to stand in the Father's presence without the sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority.

We stand there as sons in the presence of the Father of love.

We have been recreated out of His own heart.

We are of His own substance.

You know it will be a great day when large bodies of believers come to understand what they really are in Christ.

"Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation."

He is a new species, something the world had never known until the Day of Pentecost.

He is so nearly like Christ, so utterly one with Him, that Christ can say, "I am the vine, and ye are the branches."

We are become partakers of His own nature. Not only that, but He has deigned to come and make His home in our bodies.

I cannot grasp this with sense knowledge.

I simply know that it is a fact, and my spirit bears witness with the Word that it is true.

He is in me now. That great, mighty Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is in me. . .

11/5 Friday faith

This passage from Smith Wigglesworth begins with my all-time favorite quotation, which I used to use as the signature line on my emails.

God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be "ordinary" and live on a lower plane can do so; but as for me, I will not!

For the same unction, the same zeal, the same Holy Ghost power is at our command as was at the command of Stephen and the apostles. We have the same God that Abraham had, that Elijah had, and we need not come behind in any gift or grace. We may not possess the gifts, as abiding gifts, but as we are full of the Holy Ghost and divine unction, it is possible, when there is need, for God to manifest every gift of the Spirit through us, but a manifestation of the gifts as God may choose to use us.

11/4 Thursday thoughts

It is not what we are that counts, but what we can be as He disciplines and chastens us and transforms us by His all skillful hands. He sees our bitter tears and our weeping night after night. There is none like Him. He knows. He forgives. We cannot forgive ourselves, we oftentimes would give the world to forget, but we cannot. The devil won't let us forget. But God has forgiven and forgotten. Do you believe self, or the devil, or God? Which are you going to believe? Believe God. I know the past is under the blood and that God has forgiven and forgotten, for when He forgives He forgets Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

-- Smith Wigglesworth

11/3 Wednesday wisdom

This is one of the most-often-retold stories of Smith Wigglesworth's ministry. It is often quoted by modern faith teachers.

A young woman with a goiter came to be prayed for. In a testimony meeting she said, "I do praise the Lord for healing my goiter." She went home and said to her mother, "Oh Mother, when the man prayed for me, God healed my goiter." For twelve months she went about telling everybody how God healed her goiter. Twelve months afterward I was in the same place and people said, "How big that lady's goiter is!" Then came a time for testimony. She jumped up and said, "I was here twelve months ago and God healed me of my goiter. Such a marvelous twelve months!" When she went home her folks said, "You should have seen the people today when you testified that God had healed your goiter. They think there is something wrong with you. If you go upstairs and look in the glass you will see the goiter is bigger than ever it was." She went upstairs, but she didn't look in the glass. She got down on her knees and said, "O Lord, let all the people know just as You have let me know, how wonderfully You have healed me." The next morning her neck was as perfect as any neck you ever saw. Faith never looks. Faith praises God -- it is done!

11/2 All Souls' Day: Tuesday truth

This follows Friday's and Monday's meditations from a 1922 sermon by Smith Wigglesworth. I believe that he was ministering in the former Union of South Africa (a British colony) at the time of this incident.

Two African boys were brought to us from the Congo, and my daughter said to me, "Father, will you take the boys around?" Well, it was a job because they could not speak a word of English. When I was walking with these boys I kept saying, "Praise the Lord, Amen." After a while they caught on to it. So when I said, "Praise the Lord," they would say, "Amen." We boarded a car which was full of people and the boys were at one end and I at the other. They would shout, "Praise the Lord!" and I would respond, "Amen" and we kept it up through the town. The boys were having a great time. When they sought the baptism of the Holy Ghost we had a glorious time. By the way, these "boys" were thirty years old. The Holy Ghost fell on them and gave them a new language, so different from their own. It was wonderful. They were full of the Spirit and joyful beyond words. They said, "When we were saved it was good, very good; but now it is more good, more so!" O beloved! I know God wants us all to have this "more so" salvation. It is not a measure, but a pressed down measure; and not only a pressed down measure but a measure shaken together and running over. The baptism of the Spirit is an overflowing cup. Praise the Lord!

11/1 All Saints' Day Monday meditation

This is an example which Smith Wigglesworth gave as a follow-up to Friday's quote.

Brother Burton, who is associated with my son-in-law in Africa, has a wonderful work going on in the Congo. When they were going there to break up the new ground they lost one man on the way, and then Burton was laid low. He seemed dead, and they started on broken-heartedly. But looking around they saw him coming on just as lively as though he had never had a touch of fever. "What has happened?" they shouted. "Tell us!" He said, "From my head right down, there came a warmth of life through my body , and here I am perfectly well."

Afterwards Burton visited England and when he was at a meeting a woman said to him, "Do you keep a diary?" "Yes," he answered. "I wish you would look at your diary," she continued, "and tell me what happened on a certain day," (giving the date). While he was looking it up she went on, "I saw you lying as one dead, and I was broken down before God in your behalf and was praying for you when the Spirit filled me and there I was speaking in an unknown tongue, and when I got through I saw you looking perfectly well." Burton found in his diary that it was the very hour of his recovery. What we need is more of the Holy Ghost. Oh, let it be no longer we but the Spirit who prays!

10/29 Friday faith

We should be filled with the Holy Ghost to such an extent it would always be so. To be filled with the Holy Ghost and fire is a higher order, different from anything else. I often kneel before God thinking, "Now what is the burden of my heart?" The Lord knows more than I do about the burden, and the moment I kneel down I lose all my English. I am in the presence of God and He takes me right on to victory. Talk about this praying in the Holy Ghost, there is nothing like it! . . . It is purely a Holy Ghost utterance. Let me tell you an incident of what it does. It does such marvelous things. (You'll have to wait until next week for the two incidents.)
-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/28 Thursday thoughts

We have too much preaching and too little testifying. You can never get a live ... church with a preacher every night preaching, preaching, preaching. The people become weary of preaching. But they never tire of the whole place being on fire. . . You must awake out of your lethargy. There is no room for a man in the Pentecostal Movement who has settled on his lees. If you come to a . . . meeting and sit through it unmoved, you are not in the Spirit, and dearth will fall on the church.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/27 Wednesday wisdom

If you will allow Jesus to have control of your bodies, you will find that His Spirit will quicken you, will loose you; He will show you that it is the mortal body that has to be quickened. Talk about divine healing! You can't get it out of the Scriptures for they are full of it. I see this. Everyone who is healed by the power of God -- especially believers -- will find their healing an incentive to make them purer and holier. If divine healing was only to make you whole, it would be worth nothing. Divine healing is a divine act of the providence of God coming into your mortal bodies and touching them with almightiness. Could you remain the same? No. Like me, you will go out to worship and serve God.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/26 Tuesday truth

God has not given us a pattern which it would be impossible to copy. Beloved, He hated sin -- which is the greatest luxury we can have in our lives. If I have a hatred for sin, I have something which is worth millions of pounds. Oh, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin. Beloved, I feel somehow that that is the hope of the church for the future -- being purified, made like unto Jesus, pure in heart, pure in thought. Then when you lay your hands upon the sick, Satan has no power. When you command him to leave, he has to go. What a redemption! What a baptism! What an unction! It is ecstasies of delight beyond all expression for the soul to live and move in Him Who is our being.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/25 Monday meditation

If you know you need the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and you know it is in the Scriptures, never rest till God gives it [to] you. If you know it is scriptural for you to be healed of every weakness, never rest until God makes it yours. If you know that the Scriptures teach holiness, purity, and divine likeness -- overcoming under all conditions -- never rest till you are an overcomer. If you know that men have gone in and seen the face of God, who have had the vision revealed, have had the whole of the Scriptures made life in their lives, never rest till you come to it. You say, "Have you a Scripture to prove it?" Yes, the Scripture says, "That ye may apprehend with all saints what is the depth, length, breadth and height of the love of God."

-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/22 Friday faith

Never live in a less place than where God has called you to, and He has called you up on high to live with Him. God has designed that everything shall be subject to man. Through Christ He has given you power over all the power of the enemy. He has wrought out your eternal redemption.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/21 Thursday thoughts

This quote by Smith Wigglesworth is a bit controversial. I welcome your comments.

I am as confident as possible that if we could get to the place of believing God, we need not have a dog in the yard or a lock on the door. All this is unbelief. God is able to manage the whole business. It doesn't matter how many thieves are about; they cannot break through nor steal where God is. . .

When God sets His seal upon you, the devil dare not break it. He does not break in where you are. . . He dare not break that seal and go through; and God puts His seal upon the man that believes Him.

10/20 Wednesday wisdom

You cannot find anywhere that God ever failed. And He wants to bring us into that blessed place of faith, changing us into a real substance of faith, till we are so like-minded that whatever we ask we believe we receive, and our joy becomes full because we believe.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/19 Tuesday truth

God is looking for people He can reveal Himself in. I used to have a tremendous temper, going white with passion. . . God knew His child could never be of service to the world unless he was wholly sanctified. . . My wife was a good cook, but there was always something wrong; but after God sanctified me . . . I was pleased with everything.

I had men working for me (I wanted to be a good testimony to them), and one day they waited after work was over and said, "we would like the spirit you have." It is our human spirit that has to be controlled by the Holy Spirit. It is a place of death and life where Christ reigns in the body. . . It is by faith, into a place of grace, that all may see us new. . . Behold, if you will believe you can be sons of God in likeness -- character, spirit, longings, acts until all know you are a son of God.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/18 Monday meditation

It is a glorious fact, we are in God's presence, possessed by Him; we are not our own, we are clothed with Another. What for? For the deliverance of the people. Many can testify to the day and hour when they were delivered from sickness by a supernatural power. Some would have passed away with influenza if God had not intervened, but God stepped in with a new revelation, showing us we are born from above, born by a new power, God dwelling in us superseding the old. "If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it" (John 14:14). Ask and receive, and your joy shall be full, if ye dare to believe (John 16:24) . . . God is more anxious to answer than we are to ask. I am speaking of faith based upon knowledge.

-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1919 (near the end of the worldwide flu pandemic)

10/15 Friday faith

A good, positive quote to end the week:

We must have a perfect knowledge of what God has for us. [Jacob] knew that he had the favor of God, and that no man could hurt him. Let us in all our seeking see we have the favor of God, walking day by day beneath an open heaven. Keeping His commandments, walking in the Spirit, tender in our hearts, lovable, appreciated by God; if so, we shall be appreciated by others and our ministry will be a blessing to those who hear. God bless you. God bless -- for Jesus' sake.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/14 Thursday thoughts

"This is the work of God, that ye believe."
Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God's Word says. Jesus said, "...My Father worketh hitherto, and I work" (John 5:17). He saw the way the Father did the works; it was on the groundwork of knowledge, faith based upon knowledge. When I know Hm, there are any amount of promises I can lay hold of, then there is no struggle, "For [he] that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened" (Matthew 7:8).
-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1919

10/13 Wednesday wisdom

The meditation for Wednesday is posted as a comment on Tuesday's post. Please see below.

10/12 Tuesday truth

This is a really unique quote from Smith Wigglesworth . . . not his usual type:

A young monk came one day to his father superior and asked: "Father, what is it to be dead to self?" The father replied: "I cannot explain it now; but I have a duty for you to perform. Brother Martin died last week and is buried in the churchyard of our order. Go to his grave, standing close beside it, repeat in a loud voice all the good things you ever heard of him. After this, say all the flattering things you can invent; and attribute to him every saintly grace and virtue, without regard to truth; and report the result to me."

The young monk went to do his bidding, wondering what all this could mean. Soon he returned and the father asked him what had transpired. "Why, nothing," replied the young man. "I did as you told me and that was all." Did Brother Martin make no reply?" asked the superior. "Of course he did not, for he was dead," said the monk. The elder shook his head thoughtfully, saying: "That is very strange. Go again tomorrow at the same hour, and repeat at the graveside all the evil you ever heard concerning Brother Martin. Add to that the worst slander and calumny your mind can imagine, and report the result to me."

Again the young man obeyed, and brought back the same report. He had heaped unlimited abuse on the head of Brother Martin and yet had received no reply. "From Brother Martin you may learn," said the father, "what it is to be dead to self. Neither flattery nor abuse has moved him, for he is dead. So the disciple who is dead to self will be insensible to these things, hearing neither voice of praise nor retaliation but all personal feeling will be lost in the service of Christ."

10/11 Monday meditation

Jacob was left alone, and unless we get alone with God, we shall surely perish.
. . .
If ever God is disappointed with you when you tarry in His presence, it will be because you are not white-hot. If you do not get hotter, and hotter, and hotter, you disappoint God.
. . .
If you are left alone -- alone with God --- and you cannot get to a place of victory, it is a terrible time. You must never let go, whatever you are seeking -- fresh revelation, light on the path, some particular need -- never let go. Victory is ours if we are in earnest enough.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/8 Friday faith

finishing off the week with two short quotations:

There is a good, and there is a better, but God has a best, a higher standard for us than we have yet attained. It is a better thing if it is God's plan and not ours.

Many things may happen in our lives, but when the veil is lifted and we see the glory of God, His tender compassion over us all the time, to be where God is, how wonderful it is.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/7 Thursday thoughts

The secret for the future is living and moving in the power of the Holy Ghost. One thing I rejoice in is that there need not be an hour or a moment when I do not know the Holy Ghost is upon me. Oh, this glorious life in God is beyond expression; it is God manifest in the flesh. Oh, this glorious unction of the Holy Ghost -- that we move by the Spirit. He should be our continual life. The Holy Ghost has the last thoughts of anything that God wants to give. Glory to God for the Holy Ghost! We must see that we live in the place where we say, "What wilt Thou have me to do?" and are in the place where He can work in us to will and to do of His good pleasure.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/6 Wednesday wisdom

I believe that we have yet to learn what it would be with a Pentecostal Church in England that understood truly the work of intercession. I believe God the Holy Ghost wants to teach us that it is not only the people on the platform who can move things by prayer. You people, the Lord can move things through you. . . .

God will move upon the people to make them see the glory of God just as it was when Jesus walked in this world, and I believe the Holy Ghost will do special wonders and miracles in these last days.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/5 Tuesday truth

I desire you all to be so filled with the Spirit . . . so hungry, so thirsty, that nothing will satisfy us but seeing Jesus. Getting more thirsty every day, more dry every day, until the floods come, and the Master passes by, ministering unto us and through us, and through us the same life, the same inspiration, that as He is, so are we in this world.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/4 Monday meditation

An old man once stood up in a meeting and was referring to one and another who had passed on. He said, "All the good people are gone now." Another brother standing up exclaimed -- "Thank God that's a lie." Oh yes! There are lots of people on the earth today . . . that have seen Jesus . . . We are only in the beginnings of Pentecost yet. Get back to Pentecost. Keep in the unction. . . Pentecost, the place where God can bestow such a measure of His love, without limit, He giveth not the Spirit by measure (John 3:34).

-- Smith Wigglesworth

10/1 Friday faith

We have been hearing much about war loan and interest, but if you will follow on, God will add and enlarge and enlarge and lift you all the time, adding compound interest. Five percent! No! A thousand percent, a million percent! If thou wilt, if holiness is the purpose of your heart, it shall be, for God is in His place. . . . Whatever you are at any time, it will be by His effectual power, lifting, controlling, carrying you in constant rest and peace; it is according to the power that worketh in you.
-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1918

9/30 Thursday thoughts

A dear young Russian came to England. He did not know the language, but learned it quickly and was very much used and blessed of God; and as the wonderful manifestations of the power of God were seen, they pressed upon him to know the secret of his power. . . He finally said to them: "First God called me, and His presence was so precious, that I said to God at every call I would obey Him, and I yielded, and yielded, and yielded, until I realized that I was simply clothed with another power altogether, and I realized that God took me, tongue, thought and everything, and I was not myself but it was Christ working through me." How many of you today have known that God has called you over and over, and has put His hand upon you, but you have not yielded?

-- Smith Wigglesworth

9/29 Wednesday wisdom

One passion must possess me -- to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Are we so thoughtful! thoughtless! for God to have us all to Himself. "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord" (Ephesians 5:19). A drunken man has his thoughts, his mouth, his body, under the control of another. So my thoughts, my mouth, my body, must be under the control of God's Holy Spirit. Is it not lovely? . . . We cannot rest until we are quite full.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

9/28 Tuesday truth

Shall we stop short of what He says we ought to be -- shall we cease to come into line with the Mind which is always thinking of our best -- shall we cease to humble ourselves before Him who took the way of the cross for us? . . . Shall we cease to give Him our all? To what profit will it be if we hold back anything from Him who gives us a thousand times more than ever He asks from us? In Hebrews 2 He says He is going to bring many sons to glory. It means that He is going to clothe them with His glory. Let that be your vision. If you have lost the vision, He is tender to those who cry to Him; from the broken heart HE NEVER TURNS AWAY, and they that seek Him with a whole heart will find Him.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

9/27 Monday meditation

In Romans 12:1, Paul speaks about a certain place being reached -- he speaks about an altar on which he had laid himself. . . .

He so lived in the Spirit that God brought His mind into Paul's mind, so that the apostle could write and speak, as an oracle of the Holy Ghost, things which had never been in print before, things portraying the mind of God; and we read them today and drink them in as a river, and we come out of the epistles, as it were, clothed with mighty power, the power of God Himself. How does it come? It comes when we are in A PLACE LOW ENOUGH, and where God can pour in, pour in, pour in. . . .

God want to do the same for you and for me, according to the gifts He has bestowed upon us.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to lived above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so; but as for me, I will not.

(my favorite quote from Smith Wigglesworth)

This will be my last post of the week, as I will be out of town.

9/22 Wednesday wisdom

(continued from Tuesday)



You are to see a VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD more today than yesterday, and to be living in such a state of bliss that it is heavenly to live. Paul lived in that ecstasy because he got into a place where the Holy Ghost could enlarge him more and more. I find that, if I continually keep my mind upon God, He unfolds things to me, and if I obediently walk before God and keep my heart pure and clean and holy and right, He will always be lifting me higher than I have ever expected to be.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

9/21 Tuesday truth

The children were crying out one day, and the disciples rebuked them. "No," He said, "if these were to hold their peace, the very stone," of which He could make bread -- He could make them cry out.
I HAVE A JESUS LIKE THAT, who can speak the word, and the thing is done; I have a Jesus indwelling me and vitalizing me with a faith that believes it is true; I have a Jesus within me who has never let me get faint-hearted or weary. Let us press on in faith along the line of God's will, and the outpouring which we have longed to see will come. Cheer up, hold on, never let go the vision; be sure it is for you just as much as for anybody else, and God will surely make it come to pass. . . .

All blessings come from above; therefore keep your eye on Jesus. Never weary. If you do not fall out by the way, He will be with you to strengthen you in the way. Hallelujah!

-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1917

9/20 Monday meditation

WHEN I WAS BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY GHOST there was the unfolding of a new era of my life, and I passed into that and rejoiced in the fact of it ... But the moment I reached that, God had been ready with another ministry for me. If you are careful to watch for God, God is always caring for you. Jesus said, "If you honor Me here, I will honor you yonder." Whatever it may be that you are working out for God here, He is working out a far greater, a divine, glory for you. You have no need to be constantly talking of what you are going to appear like in the glory. The chief thing you are to watch is that you realize within yourself a deeper manifestation of the power of God today than yesterday, that you have something more clear today of the mind of the Spirit than you had the day before, that nothing comes between you and God to cloud your mind. You are to see a VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD more today than yesterday, and to be living in such a state of bliss that it is heavenly to live.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

9/17 Friday faith

Where are you fixed? Is God the Holy Ghost arranging things for you, or are you arranging things according to your own plan? A man filled with the Holy Ghost has ceased to be, in a sense; he has come to a rest, he has come to where God is working, to a place where he can "stand still and see the salvation of the Lord." What do I mean? I mean that such a man has ceased from his own works and abilities and associations. He will not trust his own heart; he relies only on the omnipotent power of the Most High, he is girded with Another. The man baptized with the Holy Ghost will always KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE MASTER in the passing crowd, or wherever he may be.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

9/16 Thursday thoughts

Some people get a wrong notion of the baptism (of the Holy Spirit). The baptism is nothing less than the third person of the blessed Trinity coming down from the glory, the executive Spirit of the triune God indwelling your body, revealing the truth to you, and causing you sometimes to say "Ah!" till your bowels yearn with compassion, as Jesus yearned, to travail as He travailed, to mourn as He mourned, to groan as He groaned. It cannot be otherwise with you. You cannot get this thing along a merely passive line. It does not come that way. But, glory be to God, it does come. O that God might bring from our hearts the cry for such A DELUGE OF THE SPIRIT that we could not get away till we were ready for Him to fulfill His purpose in us and for us.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

9/15 Wednesday wisdom

The Christian ought to have such an unction as to realize at any moment whether in the presence of others or alone, that he is with God. . . .

Nehemiah stood before the king because of trouble in Jerusalem which had nigh broken his heart. He was sorrowful, and it affected his countenance; but he was so near to God that he could say: "I have communed with the God of heaven." And if we believers are to go forth and fulfill God's purpose with us, the Holy Spirit must be constantly filling us and moving upon us until our whole being is on fire with the presence and power of God. That is the order of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The man is then ready for every emergency.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

9/14 Tuesday truth

A man who is baptized with the Holy Ghost has a Jesus mission. He knows his vocation, the plan of his life. God speaks to him so definitely and really that there is no mistaking about it. Thank God for the knowledge which fixes me so solidly upon God's Word that I cannot be moved from it by any storm that may rage. The revelation of Jesus to my soul by the Holy Ghost brings me to a place where I am willing, if need be, TO DIE ON WHAT THE WORD SAYS.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

9/13 Monday meditation: Wigglesworth

I am returning to quotes from Smith Wigglesworth this week and for the foreseeable future. To review his "quick biography", go to July 30 or to Smith Wigglesworth.com.

Lots of people lack the power because they do not keep the vision, because they do not allow the fire which has come to infuse into them and continue to burn. There must be A CONTINUOUS BURNING ON THE ALTAR.

Holy Ghost power in a man is meant to be an increasing force, an enlargement. God has never anything of a diminishing type. He is always going on. And I am going on. Are you going on? It is necessary, I tell you, to go on. You must not stop in the plains; there are far greater things for you on the hilltops than in the plains.
-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1917

9/10 Friday faith

The ability of God that was exercised in the resurrection of Jesus belongs to the believer today.

Notice Eph. 1:19-20. Let me give you a somewhat free translation: "I want to show you the exceeding greatness of the ability of God on our behalf who believe. It is according to the working of the strength of his might which he wrought in the Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at the right hand."

We have never grasped the significance of this.

The Father has given to us the ability that He exercised in the resurrection of Jesus.

Then we who have received Eternal Life, have in our possession today the resurrection power or ability of God.

I am convinced that before the Master returns, there will be groups of men and women who will recognize this and take their place and begin to show the world a type of supernatural ability that will startle a sense-knowledge ruled world.

It is no idle thing to have God in you. . . .

The God who raised Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you and He has lost none of His ability or power.
-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

9/9 Thursday thoughts

Prayer should be as natural as breathing and as enjoyable as eating.

Prayer should be as unconscious as our communication with each other.

It should not be the child of need, but should be based on a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with the Master so that our needs are His needs; for we are not our own, we are a part of Him. . . .

So we are laboring together with Him, and what we have considered personal needs are really His needs.

The work that we are doing is His work, so that prayer is not what we have thought it was; but it is a fellowship, a sharing; it is community interest. . . .

Prayer is a visit with our Father.

-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

Some Don'ts of Prayer

Don't have a double confession so that one moment you confess, "Yes, He heard my prayer. I am healed," or "I will get the money," and then begin to question how it is going to come and what you ought to do to get it.

Your latter confession destroys the first.

A wrong confession destroys prayer and destroys faith.

Don't trust in other people's faith -- have your own.

Do your own believing. Have your own faith as you have your own clothes. Act on the Word for yourself.

Don't talk doubt or unbelief.

Never admit that you are a "Doubting Thomas" . . .

Don't talk about sickness and disease.

Never talk about failure. Talk about the Word, its absolute integrity, and of your utter confidence in it; of your ability to act on it; and hold fast to your confession of its truthfulness.

. . . You cannot develop a Prayer Life that is anything but words unless the Word actually has a part in your life.

You live the Word; you do the Word.

-- E. W. Kenyon, In His Presence

Enemies of Prayer: Part 4: Depending on Another's Faith

Another Enemy of prayer is our dependence on other people's faith.

We become unconsciously, spiritual hitchhikers.

To every man God has given a measure of Faith; that Faith came with the New Creation, it came when you received the Father's Nature. That Nature is a Faith Nature.

As soon as it came into you and you became His Child, you began to develop that Faith. . . .

You are now developing your faith by feeding on the Word. (John 15:7)

You begin to live in the Word.

You are acting on the Word.

You are taking advantage of your privileges in Christ.

-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

Enemies of Prayer: Part 3: Praying for Faith

Another Enemy is Praying for Faith.

How many times have we gone to the altar and to the prayer room to pray for more faith. What a delusion that was.

You never heard of anyone getting more faith or having their faith increased by praying for it.

Why? Because the prayer for faith is a prayer based on unbelief.

If unbelief were not your master, you wouldn't need faith, so praying for faith is an absolute proof that you will not get it, and that you are insulting the Father by doing it.

Why, if a child should say to its mother, "Mama, I want you to increase my faith in you. I've been trying all morning to believe that what you said about that trip that Saturday were true." The child is insulting the integrity of his mother.

So when you pray for faith you are insulting the author of the Word. You don't intend to, but you are doing that.
-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

Enemies of Faith: Part 2: Mental Assent

Another Enemy is Mental Assent.

You say, "What is it?" It is mentally accepting the Word as true, but not acting upon it.

It is admiring the Word.

You may have been called a Fundamentalist, and you may have confessed that you believe the Word from Genesis to Revelation; but when it comes to acting on it, you have never done it.

You are like one that knows all the ingredients that are in a certain dish that you have for dinner.

You are able to diagnose every feature about it. But you don't eat it. It does you no good.

The Mental Assenter is a failure . . .

The Believer is a "doer of the Word and not a hearer only."

Jesus described him in that last illustration of the Sermon on the Mount. The Doer was the one who dug deep, went down to the rock and built his house thereon. The Mental Assenter built on the sand.
-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

Some Enemies of Prayer: Hope

Another Enemy is Hope.

Hope is always future. Faith is always now.

Someone comes to me and asks me to pray for them, and I say, "Was the prayer answered?' And they answer, "I hope it was."

Then I know it will not be answered, and I frankly tell them. "No, the Hoper's prayers are seldom answered."

Hope is a beautiful thing when it is about Heaven, or the coming back of the Master, and everything that belongs to the future. But for present-tense practices and present-tense life, hope is a dangerous enemy.

It is beautiful, but it is dangerous!

The Hoper is always a failure. It is the Believer that is a success -- and believing, you remember, is acting on the Word.

-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

9/1 Wednesday wisdom

The Father has given to us the power of attorney to use the Name of Jesus, and that Name has all authority in heaven and on earth.

That make us absolute masters of Satanic forces.

"In my name ye shall cast out demons; ye shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover; whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name He will give it you."

That is limitless.

It is the limitlessness of the prayer life, and it belongs to every child of God.

It is not a problem of faith; but a problem of knowing your legal rights in Christ, and then taking your place as a son and daughter and actually playing the game with Him.

-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

8/31 Tuesday truth

"Treating the Word As If It Were a Common Book"

One of the most dangerous habits that Christians have is treating the Word as though it were a common book.

In one breath we will declare that we believe it to be a Revelation from God, and yet we turn to the arm of flesh for help when the Word has promised perfect deliverance.

We treat the fact of Redemption as though it were a beautiful fiction.

We read articles about the Word.

We sing hymns confessing it.

And yet we live under the dominion of the Adversary, continually confessing sickness, want, fear, weakness, and doubts in the face of this Revelation from God of our Redemption . . . and the fact that He is seated now at the right hand of God . . .

We read about it. We talk about it.

And then we act as though it were but a fable!

This is the reason why the chrurch has more sickness and more disease than any other organized body of people; why faith is weak; why the average believer is ruled by the Adversary.

All this could be changed if we would give the Word the same plae we would give Christ if He were here physically in our presence.

-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

8/30 Monday Meditation: A Plea for the Return to the Supernatural

I'm going to break away from E.W. Kenyon for a day to share something I read in the August 2010 issue of Charisma (p. 54):

"... in China ... it is estimated that healings in Jesus' name have led to roughly half of the millions of conversions there in recent decades. That estimate comes from the China Christian Council, which is affiliated with the Protestant, state-approved Three-Self Patriotic Movement. A source with the underground church in China offers a far higher estimate: 90 percent."

The majority of the Muslims in Africa who come to Christ do so because of dreams and visions of Jesus speaking to them. I've read that whole churches are made up of people who have had "The Dream". I've also read that "The Dream" has become so common that African Muslims routinely ask one another, "Have you seen 'The Man' yet?"

We in America have been trained in recent years to believe that the most relevant and effective form of evangelism is friendship or relational evangelism. We tend to dismiss the supernatural as a form of evangelism. (Perhaps we dismiss it and seek other forms of evangelism because real Holy Spirit power is gone from our churches.) But miracles, signs, wonders, healing, and tongues are how all of the converts were won in the Book of Acts.

Let's pray for a return of the supernatural to spark evangelism and revival in our churches.

"I fear that the day will come when the supernatural is no longer seen in our Alliance churches." --A.B. Simpson (approximate quote)

"The church that is not supernatural is superficial." -- Source Unknown

8/27 Friday faith

"Satan's Defeat"

When I was Redeemed in Christ, that Redemption was out of the hand of the enemy.

I have been translated out of the kingdom of Satan, into the kingdom of the Son of the Father's love; in whom I have my Redemption, complete and perfect.

Then I do not have to war to conquer Satan, because Satan is already conquered.

He was conquered for me. He knows that he was conquered for me, so I take my deliverance from him and my victory over him in Jesus' Name, with thankfulness.

-- E.W. Kenyon

8/26 Thursday thoughts

The Word is mine. The Holy Spirit is mine Jesus is mine. God is my own Father. Their Righteousness is my Righteousness. I stand complete in their completeness.

I am a New Creation, created in Christ Jesus. All the rights and privileges of a child are mine. I did not have to ask for them. They were conferred on me. When I became His child, these things were a part of the New Creation so I enter into my rights.

-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

8/25 Wednesday wisdom

"Have Your Own Faith" (Part 3)

" 'If ye abide in Christ, and His words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein am I glorified, that ye bear much fruit.' This is prayer fruit. It is going to be borne by one of the branches, and I am that branch."

When your heart can speak like this, then you know that when you approach the throne of Grace there is a willing ear, listening to you, and whatever you ask (because the Word is living in you) you will receive.

Do you understand what that means? A lover has written you a letter. It is not written to anyone else. It is too sacred for any other eyes to see. That is your letter. That is your lover writing to you.

-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

8/24 Tuesday truth

"Have Your Own Faith" (part 2)

Here are some facts that will help you to begin to build your own faith life.

The Word is yours. It is as though there was no other person in the world but you, and this Revelation had been given especially for you; you can say, "It is mine. No one has a better right to it than I have. Every promise is mine. Every statement of fact is mine."

When He said, "Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you, you can say, "He was talking to me. He is my Father; I am His child. This is His message to me, to help me in my earth walk."

-- E.W. Kenyon

8/23 Monday meditation

This week I'm going to do five consecutive passages from E.W. Kenyon so that we get a complete teaching.

"Have Your Own Faith"

One should never trust the great issues of his life to another's faith. He should have faith of his own, faith that can meet any crisis that may come.

Your case is vital to you. It may not be vital to this other party to whose faith you look. . . . His faith may be at a low ebb when you appeal to him for aid.

Everyone should build his own faith life. . . .

I find that the majority of people float on carelessly until they come to a dangerous place. They are sick, or some loved on is sick, some financial or heart problem confronts them that may afftect their entire future. Then they frantically hunt for someone who can cry and sob and quote scriptures in what they call their "prayer" and it is of no avail becasue there is no faith back of it.

If there was faith there, there would be no crying and no sobbing. There would be a rejoicing because they would know that whatever they ask of the Father in Jesus' Name, He will do it.

8/20 Friday faith

If anyone besides Billy is reading this on the website, please let me know in the comments or by email: lalepard@msn.com. I will include you in my daily prayers along with the men who receive it by email.
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Every man and woman in connection with our church who is not spending time in prayer will be a neutralizing force in the church.

They may be in the choir; they may be in the Sunday School; they may have charge of the finances; they may act as deacons or elders; but whatever their place, they carry a certain coldness, they are an inert body.

They have a tendency to lower the spiritual temperature of everyone in close contact with them. . . .


A church can't be built up spiritually without prayer.

Numbers can be drawn through personal work or by eloquence, but to build up a real spiritual body, is only possible through prayer.

This will need much wise teaching on the part of the Pastor, and the teachers of adult classes.


-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

8/19 Thursday thoughts

His Word in your lips is like the Father's Word in Jesus' lips.

It defeats the forces of darkness.

It strengthens those whom Satan has made weak.

I hardly dare give you the next sentence: His Word in your lips make you a superman.

You have all authority over the power of the Enemy.

It is love that has been delegated to you.

It is love pouring itself through your lips.

You can enter the throne room at will. You are always welcome.

You are master of the laws of nature that would hurt and hinder.

You stand quiet in the presence of humanity's needs knowing that you have authority to open the flood gates of grace, of life and love and let them pour over the wounded broken-hearted men and women struggling in life's uneven fight.

-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

8/18 Wednesday wisdom

I want you to begin to reckon on Him. I want you to say in the morning, "That mighty One is in me. He can put yme over today. I can face any emergency. I can do all things in Him because He is my strength."

I can hear Him whisper, Isaiah 41:10: "Fear thou not for I am with thee. ("I am in thee.") Be not dismayed for I am thy (Father ) God. I will strengthen thee; yea, I will uphold thee; yea, I am today all that you need: your helper, your wisdom, your strength, your ability."

You see, it is not what I should be. It is not what I can be.

It is what I am in Christ. . . .

We are what He says we are, so we can do what He says we can do.

-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

8/17 Tuesday truth

He is with us in the Word, that living Word.

He is with us in His Name.

He is with us in the presence of the Holy Spirit.

We join forces with Him in this prayer life.

That "all authority" was given to Him as the head of the Church, and it is for the Church to use.

The authority that is in His Name is in your lips. You let that authority loose. You give it liberty and it blesses men.

He has made us Sons.

He has given us the Name.

He has given us the Holy Spirit.

He has restored all that Adam lost and more.

We are Satan's rulers.

We are masters of demons and laws that sin brought into being. . . .

We are surrounded by demoniacal forces that are dominating the human on earth, and if the Church hasn't authority over these, then no one has.

But the Church has! And prayer is our method and mode of dominating these diabolical forces that are wrecking civilization.

-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

8/16 Monday: Intro. to E.W. Kenyon

I am starting a new series of quotes from E.W. Kenyon.

E.W. Kenyon (1867-1948) was a friend of A.B. Simpson, the founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance. Kenyon and Simpson had a great influence on each others' thoughts and writings. They often exchanged pulpits until they had a parting of the ways due to a difference in theological emphasis. Kenyon is considered a forefather of the Word of Faith movement. His writings greatly influenced Kenneth E. Hagin.

(Kenyon usually wrote each sentence as a separate paragraph. And each sentence could stand alone as a devotional.)


If you don't take time to pray, you are losing out.

You can't say that you have no responsibility in the prayer life, for you have.

To see a need is to have a call to prayer.

There are people who will be utterly lost unless you take your place.

Unless you do your part, men will cry against you through eternity.

You can't plead that you have too much work to do. You can pray while you work.

You can't put up the idea that you do not know how, you can learn if you wish.

For you to disobey the prayer call is for you to disobey the call of your Father.

The prayer responsibility today is the most important thing of our lives.

-- E. W. Kenyon, In His Presence

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8/13 Friday faith

Noah was a preacher of righteousness 120 years; he never wavered or lost the reality of God. There was no sea near, but God has said he would send a flood, it was sufficient. The fear of God has a principle in it which brings peace. Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

Next week I'm starting a series from E.W. Kenyon.

8/12 Thursday thoughts

The man drunk with wine says everybody is drunk but him. May God the Holy Ghost make me so unconscious of my condition in the Spirit, so hungry, so thirsty, that I see everyone has more than me. God can do it, it means much. Jesus says -- "I give you My life, it is to become in you a production of what I am." "... be not drunk with wine ... but be filled with the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18).

-- Smith Wigglesworth

8/11 Wednesday widsom

I am convinced that there is nothing in the world that is going to convince men and women of the power of the Gospel like the manifestation of the Spirit with the fruits. God has baptized us in the Holy Ghost for a purpose, that He may show His mighty power in human flesh, as He did in Jesus, and He is bringing us to a place where He may manifest these gifts.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

8/10 Tueday truth

Now, beloved, I feel somehow that we have missed the greatest principle which underlies the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The greatest principle is that God the Holy Ghost came into my body to make manifest the mighty works of God and that I may profit withal. Not one gift alone, but as God the Holy Ghost abides in my body I find He fills it, and then one can truly say it is the unction of the Holy One. It so fills us that we feel we can command demons to come out of persons possessed; and when I lay hands on the sick in the name of the Lord Jesus I realize that this body is the outer coil merely and that within is the Son of God. For I receive the Word of Christ and Christ is in me, the power of God is in me, and the Holy Ghost is making that Word a living Word, and the Holy Ghost makes me say, "Come out!" It is not Wigglesworth. It is the power of the Holy Ghost that makes manifest the glorious presence of Christ.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

8/9 Monday meditation

Do you believe that the Father in heaven would make you a judge over a kingdom if there was anything crooked in you? Do you believe you will be able to bind unless you are free yourself? But every man that hath this living Christ within him hath the power that will put to death all sin. With Jesus' last words on earth He gave the disciples a commission; the discipleship has never ceased. The churches are weak today because Christ the rock is not abiding in them in the manifestations of the power of God. This is not because it is a special gift -- this power to loose and to bind -- but it is whether you have the rock foundation in you. In the name of Jesus you will loose, and in the name of Jesus you will bind, and if He is in you it ought to bring forth evidences of that power.

-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1914

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8/6 Friday faith

When they came to the Jordan Elijah switched his mantle over it, and they passed over, and no doubt Elisha said, "I must follow his steps." And when they had gone over, the old man said, "You have done well, you would not stay back; what is the real desire of your heart? . . . ask what you like now before I leave you." "Master," he says, . . . "I want twice as much as you have." I believe it is the fainthearted that do not get much. . . . What have you asked for ? Are you satisfied to go on in the old way now when the Holy Spirit has come to give you an unlimited supply of power, and He says, "What will you have?"

-- Smith Wigglesworth

8/5 Thursday thoughts

The Holy Ghost, coming upon an individual, is capable of changing him, and fertilizing his spiritual life, and filling him with such power, and grace, that he may not be able to say what could not happen. What can happen, what is possible, if we reach this place and keep in it -- abide in it?

Some people have an idea that they have to be doing something. I beseech you, by the power of the Holy Ghost today, that you see that there is one thing only that is going to accomplish the purposes of God and that is being in the Spirit. I don't care how dry the land is, I don't care how thirsty the land is, or how many vessels or how few, that are round about, I beseech you in the name of Jesus, that you keep in the Spirit. That's the secret.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

8/4 Wednesday wisdom

"Filled with God, yes, filled with God, pardoned and cleansed and filled with God." Filled with God leaves no room for doubting or fearing. We have no idea of all that means, to be filled with God. It means emptied of self. Do you know what it means to be filled with God? It means you have no fear, for when you are filled with God you are filled with love, and perfect love casts out fear.

-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1914

8/3 Tuesday truth

Some people, just because they have been baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire, think they have to go and be preachers. It is a thousand pities that it is so. It is good that that desire is in your heart, but it may not be God's purpose for you. If you would get to know your place in the Holy Ghost, it would save you from struggles and burdens, and relieve the whole situation. Get to know your place in the Holy Ghost and God will bless you. . . .

God will put you in the place you are to occupy, if you will ask and trust Him for it; and you will live in the Holy Ghost so that His glory shall be always upon you.
-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1916

Mon., Aug. 2 Intro. to Smith Wigglesworth

I am beginning a series of quotes from Smith Wigglesworth (1859-1947). Wigglesworth had one of the greatest healing ministries of all time. Various accounts state that between 9 and 20 people were raised from the dead in his ministry. He was an illiterate plumber from England whose wife taught him to read. He read nothing but the Bible, and he had absolute faith that God would do what He said.

Brothers and sisters, do you want the Holy Ghost? . . . We read that "Jesus breathed upon them," and they received the unction in the breathing. As people breath in the Holy Ghost they become so possessed with the power of God that they have no possessions in themselves; they simply fall into God, and God takes possession of everything -- hands and feet and body and tongue for the glory of God. My heart yearns for you to be so filled with the divine power of the Holy Ghost that you will go back from these meetings into your own meetings and assemblies in the order of God -- not taking notice of your fullness, but having the fact remaining in you that you have power, and letting the Word of God so act upon the power that God will let it flow through you to others. By what? His way. You cannot baptize people, but His way can do it. How? Receive ye the Holy Ghost; let Him have His way.

-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1916