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.
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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.
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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