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