Holy Spirit Power 12/30 Friday faith

We are partaker, sharers in His Resurrection.


Col. 3:1: "If then ye have shared in Messiah's resurrection."

You see, we were raised together with Him in the mind of Justice.

We possess resurrection ability.

You doubt it? Read Acts 1:8: "But ye shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you."

Eph. 3:20: "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that you ask or think, according to the power (or ability) that abideth in you."

If that doesn't make supermen out of common men, then the English language cannot convey God's thought.



-- E.W. Kenyon

Power of Attorney 12/19 Thursday thoughts

You see what we have now?


We have the power of attorney to use the Name of Jesus; and all authority in heaven and on earth is invested in that Name . . .



This believer, this new creation, is a child of Deity.

He stands before the world as a very branch of the vine.

He is taking Jesus' place in the world.

And if this isn't a superman, then I don't know the meaning of the term.

The Church has kept this "Samson" imprisoned by false teaching and by creeds and doctrines. They have not only held him a prisoner to their philosophies and dogmas, but they have actually put out his eyes.

But the Father is going to restore sight to him and break the bonds that hold him.

  -- E.W. Kenyon

Believing Ones 12/28 Wednesday wisdom

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


The word "believeth" means "a believing one."

There were no "believing ones" in the time while Christ was preaching. They were Jews under law.

The "believing ones" came into being at Pentecost.

It meant a believer, a New Creation Man.

The new creation man is a partaker of God's nature.

He is really an Incarnation. He has received the nature and life of God.

Then he invites the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead, who came on the day of Pentecost, to make His home in his body.

This man not only has God's nature, but has God actually living in him.

If this doesn't constitute a superman, then I don't know what a superman is.



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

The Mighty One is in me. 12/17 Tuesday truth

I want you to say in the morning, "That mighty One is in me. He can put me 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.



-- E. W. Kenyon

May It Be 12/24 Christmas meditation

from AllWorship.com newsletter (a great place to get Christian music 24/7/365 on the internet)


Wishing you all a blessed Christmas.

The next meditation will be posted Monday evening for Tuesday.



MAY IT BE


Mary was a young girl who was pledged and chosen to be married to a man named Joseph. She had never been intimate with a man; she was a virgin.

One day the angel Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God (Luke 1:19), appears to Mary and gives her a word from God. Mary is told that she will conceive a child by the Holy Spirit--and that child will be the Messiah!

Now remember, first Mary is seeing and hearing an angel. Then, this angel tells her she will carry The Messiah for Israel and all of mankind, and she is a virgin! Mary questions how this could happen and then does an extraordinary and important thing: she accepts The Word and says, "May it be to me as you have said."

Young Mary decided that she would believe and agree with The Word she heard, and she sealed it in faith and history by speaking that she received it! Mary had to speak by faith that she would receive The Word, carry The Word, and birth The Word given to her.

Mary lived in a culture that if an unmarried woman was found to be with child, she could be stoned to death by law. She would have to face her Jewish family and neighbors that were totally against what appeared to be--that Mary had been sexually promiscuous.

And Mary also had Joseph; what would he think of her? As a holy man, he would not want her anymore, for it looked as though Mary had been with another. Try explaining being pregnant without being sexually active! Who would believe you?

Yet with all that was against Mary, she did what God wants us to do today--receive what He has said, believe it and speak that it is happening to you! God needed Mary to believe what His messenger told her. She and Joseph were destined to be the earthly parents of Jesus.

Mary had a decision that day. She decided to not let the circumstances and conditions that surrounded her make her decision for her. Mary got pregnant with the Word of God that was told to her. And The Word (Jesus) became flesh and dwelt among them, and still is today! (John 1:14)

You and I must believe and receive The Word of God concerning us! Let it grow in us and then finally birth in the flesh, in the natural, what is spoken. Friends, receive, believe and speak what has been spoken and promised to you! Even if your body, your doctor, and everyone around you is screaming, "that is impossible!" Remember, God will even do something that has never existed before to keep his Word--even make a virgin pregnant!

Always remember Mary and what she faced--the opposition, ridicule, conflict and pressure. Think about the impossible thoughts she had to overcome that her body would even do what God said it would do! Defeat the enemy every time when he lies to you and tells you that God and His Word are not working for you.

Nothing is impossible with God. Absolutely nothing!

Say it out loud with confidence no matter what it looks like: "May it be to me as you have said."

--by Jamie Carte

Happy Hannukah! 12/22 Thursday thoughts

I usually break from the traditional quotes on Jewish holidays to do some teaching on the meaning of Jewish holidays to Christians today.


Hannukah (Chanukah) began at sundown Tuesday, December 20, and continues for eight nights.

Chanukah is a beautiful holy day which was celebrated by Y’shua (Jesus) Himself. . . This holy day is prophetically mentioned in the book of Daniel.

Most surprising to both the Jewish and the Christian communities is that the clearest mention of Chanukah in the Bible... is in the Fulfilled Covenant (the New Testament) ! "Then came Chanukah in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Y’shua was walking around inside the Temple area, in Solomon’s Colonnade" (John 10:22–23). . . The people who do not normally celebrate Chanukah have the most explicit reference to it in the Fulfilled Covenant! This brings us to the core reason why Believers in Messiah Y’shua might want to understand and celebrate this holy day. The Messiah celebrated it!

Not only did Y’shua celebrate Chanukah, but He observed it in the same Temple that had been cleansed and rededicated just a few generations earlier under the Maccabee brothers.

Many Jewish scholars see a deeper spiritual meaning to Chanukah. . . Because Chanukah is a celebration of deliverance, it has also become a time to express Messianic hope. Just like the Maccabees were used by YHWH to redeem Israel, perhaps the greatest redeemer—the Messiah—would also come at this time!

With this understanding, we more fully appreciate the scenes that unfolded as Y’shua celebrated the feast 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem. Amidst the festivities, Y’shua was approached by some rabbis who asked a simple question: "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us publicly" (John 10:24). The answer to this very appropriate question is contained in Y’shua’s fundamental Chanukah message. He clearly reiterates His claim and the proofs of His Messiahship as can clearly be seen in John 10:25–39.

(quoted from Hebrew Roots Teaching Institute, a Facebook group)

Hannukah celebrates the miracle of lights. Its enduring meaning is that God still does miracles!

The closing of the candle-lighting prayer reads: "We kindle these lights for the miracles and the wonders, for the redemption and the battles which You performed for our forefathers in those days at this season. . . During all eight days of Chanukah these lights are sacred and we are not permitted to make ordinary use of them but only to look at them in order to express thanks and praise to Your great Name for your miracles, your wonders, and your salvation.

Resurrection Power 12/21 Wednesday wisdom

The ability of God that was exercised in the resurrection of Jesus belongs to the believer today.
Notice Eph.  :19-20.  Let me give you a somewhat free translation.  "I want to show you what is 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 his 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.  . . .
It is no idle thing to have God in you.

    -- E. W. Kenyon

Never Talk Failure 12/20 Tuesday truth

You said you could not, and the moment that you said it you were whipped.
You said you did not have faith, and doubt arose like a giant and bound you.
You are imprisoned with your own words.
You talked failure and failure held you in bondage.
Prov. 6:2:  "Thou are snared with the words of thy mouth. Thou are taken (captive) with the words of thy mouth."
Few of us realize that our words dominate us.
A young man said, "I was never whipped until I confessed I was whipped."
Another said, "The moment I began to make a bold, confident confession, a new courage that I had never known took possession of me."   . . .

Never talk failure.
Never talk defeat.
Never for a moment acknowledge that God's ability can't put you over.

    -- E.W. Kenyon

God's Word can never die 12/19 Monday meditation

God's Word, like Himself, can never die, can never lose its freshness, its power, its ability to recreate, to strengthen and give courage.


You see, the Word in the lips of faith becomes just like the Word in Jesus' lips.

The Word in lips of doubt and fear is a dead thing; but in the lips of faith, it becomes life-giving, dominant.

Through it the sick are healed; Satan's captives are set free.

This living Word is the lips of faith is God's answer to the heart cry of man.

Man's word may fascinate and satisfy reason for a time, but the heart demands the Word of God.



-- E.W. Kenyon

Prayer Assurance 12/16 Friday faith

When you pray in that Name, it is as though Jesus prayed.


There can be no denial.

You remember Jesus said at the tomb of Lazarus: "I thank thee, Father, that thou dost always hear me." This is the ground for your assurance.

John 14:13-14 He gives us the use of the Name: "And whatsoever ye shall ask or demand in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do."



-- E.W. Kenyon

Reality in Jesus' Name 12/15 Thurs. thoughts

"Reality in Jesus' Name" is the title that E.W. Kenyon put on this passage.

How little have we appreciated this.  It is one of the greatest gifts the Church has ever had given her.

Before Jesus left us He gave to the Church a legal right to the use of His Name.  John 15:16:  "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you."

John 16:23-24 (Note this translation):  "And in that day ye shall not pray to me.  Verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father he will give it you in my name.  Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name.  Ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be made full."

              -- E. W. Kenyon

Supernatural Order 12/14 Wed. wisdom

You belong to a supernatural order of being whether you recognize it or not, whether you have taken your place or not.  You have the ability of the indwelling presence.
You have the wisdom that Jesus had in His earth walk  because Jesus has been made unto you wisdom
You can think of yourself as linked up with Ability, linked with Omnipotence.
You remember He said:  "And nothing shall be impossible to you."
I know that Sense Knowledge reasoning shrinks from this, but here is where the challenge of grace leads you.
We dare to take our place, dare confess what we are, dare confess that He made up what we are, that we can do what he says we can do because He is at work within us.

            -- E.W. Kenyon

"The Supernatural" 12/13 Tuesday truth

"The Supernatural" is the title that E.W. Kenyon put on this passage.

Prayer is an excursion into the supernatural realm.
You are in the Throne Room in the Presence of God, of All Ability.  He has promised to hear your petition and to give you your request.  You have come on the ground of His Word.
He said:  "Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my Name He will give you."
You understand that the words that Jesus spoke were His Father's words; so you come now with the Father's words in your lips, and you are making your appeal on the ground of His own Word.

  -- E. W. Kenyon

I Believe in Miracles 12/12 Monday meditation

We will have to give up our prayer life utterly, or we will have to believe in Miracles.


I believe in Miracles.

I believe in divine intervention.

I believe that the prayer of Faith reaches God our Father, and when it reaches Him He acts in response to that Faith.

When He acts in response to our Faith, His action is above our reason. It is in the Realm of Miracles.



-- E.W. Kenyon

No miracles? 12/9 Friday faith

The instant that you say there are no Miracles in this dispensation, you deny that our walk is a walk by Faith, and you declare that our walk is a walk by Reason.


I challenge you to find one place where God tells us as believers to walk by Reason.

God is a Faith God.

We are a Faith Family.

We are all born by Faith.

We live by Faith.

By Faith we live, breathe, and have our being in Christ.

If there are no Miracles, then there is no reason for Faith.

If there are no Miracles, God can't answer prayer, because He can't answer prayer of any character that is not a Miracle.



-- E. W. Kenyon

It's a Miracle 12/8 Thursday thoughts

For God the Father to hear my prayer is equivalent to His answering it.
Now, for God to hear me is a Miracle.
For God to answer my prayer, regardless of its nature, is a Miracle.
Whether my petition is for a postage stamp or for a million dollars, it is a miracle.
Any divine intervention, any arrest of the laws of nature that comes in answer to Faith, is a Miracle.

     -- E. W. Kenyon

Two Short Quotes 12/7 Wednesday wisdom

Let me state it with all the simplicity possible, that you can't have prayers answered without having miracles performed.

The two-fold value of prayer lies first in sitting in His presence, or in direct Fellowship with the Father.
The second benefit is the answer that comes to us.

       -- E.W. Kenyon

Force Yourself 12/6 Tuesday truth

Force yourself into the prayer life.  Regardless of how you feel, drive yourself to prayer.
You will be amazed how halting and stumbling will be your first attempts.
You have been rated, perhaps, as an unusual Christian in the Church.
Men look upon you as an outstanding Christian, but if they knew that in behind your public profession there was an empty closet, or an unused prayer room, they would be amazed.
If you live with the Lord in secret, you will be able to pray with great freedom in public.

Take Time to Pray 12/5 Monday meditation

So few of us, in our busy lives, take time to pray, that the Spirit searches through the congregation for the willing hearts that will deny themselves some of the common pleasures and will be first in the line of prayer instead of last.
On these willing hearts rolls the burden of the entire church.
Thank God, that in our church are found those who are willing to . . . hide away alone with Him to take my burden and yours that we have in some way failed to roll on the Lord. . .
It is a pity that more of us do not force ourselves into a life of prayer.
We have the time.
We use it in useless talk, or careless reading.
While the Spirit is searching for an outlet He must pass us by because we are not ready.
Oh, I beseech you, Reader, not to talk about it any more, or plan when you will do it,. but begin it now.

     -- E.W. Kenyon

As Natural as Breathing 12/2 Friday faith

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.

         -- E.W. Kenyon

Thursday thoughts 12/1 What Prayer Can Mean

Now we can see what prayer can mean.


It isn't the old idea of getting on our knees and crying and begging.

It is a son coming into the Father's Presence for one of our brethren who has been injured, or for one who for some reason cannot come and make his appeal personally. We come on his behalf and ask for a blessing.

Or it may be that we are taking up the need of the great unsaved world.

We stand there in fulness of Fellowship and fulness of Joy to get a portion for another.

This is entering by the New and Living Way.

This is coming boldly to the Throne of Grace.

This is fellowshipping the Father.

This is visiting with Him.

It is not coming into His Presence as the Jews came into the presence of Jehovah, or as a sinner would approach, but we are coming as sons and daughters.

We are taking our place.



-- E. W. Kenyon

Sons Visiting their Father: Wednesday wisdom

Few of us have realized the fact that the Father's heart is hungry for the companionship of His children. His heart hunger is the reason for man and the reason for redemption, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son."




That love impels Him to call us to Prayer.



That call is the proof of our ability to stand in His presence. It is the proof of His making us righteous enough to stand in His presence without reproof or condemnation.



It means that we are ever welcome to the Throne Room.



How few of us have ever realized this.



Is is sons visiting their Father.



It is children coming joyously into the presence of a Loving Parent.



-- E.W. Kenyon (continued tomorrow)

One Hundred Preachers: Tuesday truth

Just got back from Thanksgiving vacation at our son's in Kansas. Wasn't planning to post a quote tonight, but I'm going to cheat and borrow one from a follower in my "Lep's Faith Quotes" Facebook group:


Gina Seitz Gibbs

‎"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth."

~ John Wesley

You can't be conquered. 11/24 Thanksgiving Thoughts

You can't be conquered.
Your spirit is whispering, "Nay, in all these things I am more than a conqueror."
Every disease is of the Adversary.
All kinds of sin are of the Adversary.
All opposition to the glad tidings is of the Adversary.
God and I are victors.
Grater is He that is in me that this opposition or this disease.
There is no need that is greater than my Lord.
There is no lack that He cannot meet.
This indomitable will that God has wrought in you cannot be overwhelmed, or conquered.
You remember what you are -- your are a New Creation.
You are a branch of the vine.
You are an heir of God. 

          -- E.W. Kenyon

Build Your Own Faith Life 11/23 Wed. wisdom

This quote immediately follows yesterday's quote in E.W. Kenyon's In His Presence:



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."

Your Own Faith 11/22 Tuesday truth

It is vitally important to you that you have your own faith to fall back on in these hard places.

Everyone should hold 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 one is sick, some financial or heart problem confronts them that may affect 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 because 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.

          -- E.W. Kenyon

You talk . . . 11/21 Monday meditation

You talk of your doubts and your fears, and you destroy your faith.




You talk of the ability of the Father that is yours, and fill your lips with praise for answers to prayers that you have asked. The reaction upon the heart is tremendous: Faith grows by leaps and bounds.



You talk about your trials and your difficulties, of your lack of faith, of your lack of money, and faith shrivels, loses its virility.

Your whole spirit life shrinks.



You study about what you are in Christ and then confess it boldly.



You dare to act on the Word in the face of sense knowledge opposition.



Regardless of appearance, you take your stand; make your confession and hold fast to it in the face of apparent impossibilities.



You see, faith doesn't ask for possible things. Faith is demanding the impossible.



Prayer is never for the possible, but always for the thing that is out of reason.



-- E. W. Kenyon

Prayer Life 11/18 Friday faith

According to reports, no one in the large church that E.W. Kenyon pastored died of disease in the 25 or so years that he was pastor.  There was a faith level that resulted in divine healing and divine health. 

Preaching and personal work are God-honored and blessed vocations or ministries, but prayer is the foundation of it all.

A man might preach with the eloquence of a Beecher and be the most skilled of diplomats as a soul winner, but he will fall short of his ministry in both fields if he isn't backed up by the prayer life.

The failure of all Christian enterprises is a prayer failure.

Prayer alone gives success.

           -- E. W. Kenyon

A Call to Prayer 11/17 Thurs. thoughts

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 you 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 plea 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

No Unused Members 11/16 Wed. wisdom

Everyone of us has a place in the prayer life.
God has no unused members.
There isn't a useless member in the physical body; neither is there in the spiritual body of Christ.
God has planned with divine wisdom, the body of Christ; and the moment that you are born into that body, you have your place in which to function.
If any one thinks that because of lack of training or for lack of this or that, he hasn't a place, he is deluded by the enemy.
You have a place.
With that place comes responsibility, and with responsibility comes a reward or demerit.
If you do not take your place in the Family of God, in the Church, and begin to function, the body of Christ is weakened because of it.

      -- E. W. Kenyon

He is with us. 11/15 Tuesday truth

Continuing to quote from E.W. Kenyon for a while.  The unique thing about Kenyon's books is that he usually writes each sentence as a separate paragraph, and each sentence could stand by itself as worthy of dozens of pages of discussion.

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.

             -- E. W. Kenyon,  In His Presence

E.W. Kenyon 11/14 Monday meditation

My prayer and ministry partner keeps telling me that I need to get back to quoting Kenyon and Lake again. But I'm only halfway through the 850-page Wigglesworth book !! :(







So I pulled out one of my Kenyon books and found that I'd never finished reading and quoting from it. He is a little hard to quote concisely, so I may not find many quotes.






E.W. Kenyon (1867-1948) was an early Pentecostal pioneer who is considered the father of the Word of Faith movement, long before Hagin and Copeland gave the doctrine a name and made it famous.




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

An Overflowing Cup 11/11 Friday faith

The man cried, "... Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean" (Matthew 8:2).  Was Jesus willing?  You will never find Jesus missing an opportunity of doing good.  You will find that He is always more willing to work than we are to give Him an opportunity to work.  The trouble is, we do not come to Him, we do not ask Him for what He is more than willing to give.   
. . . If you are definite with Him, you will never go away disappointed. . . This Jesus is just the same today, and He says to you, "I will; be thou clean."  He has an overflowing cup for thee, a fulness of life.  He will meet you in your absolute helplessness.  All things are possible if you will only believe.

     -- Smith Wigglesworth

A Wigglesworth Story 11/10 Thurs. thoughts

A woman came to me in the city of Liverpool and said, "I would like you to help me. I wish you would join me in prayer. My husband is a drunkard and every night comes into the home under the influence of drink. Won't you join me in prayer for him?" I said to the woman, "Have you a handkerchief?" She took out a handkerchief and I prayed over it and told het to lay it on the pillow of the drunken man. He came home that night and laid his head on the pillow in which this handkerchief was tucked. He laid his head on more than the pillow that night. He laid his head on the promise of God. In Mark 11:24, we read: . . . What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.




The next morning the man got up and called at the first saloon that he had to pass on his way to work and ordered some beer. He tasted it and said to the bartender, "You have put some poison in this beer." He could not drink it, and went on to the next saloon and ordered some more beer. (This occurs a total of five times before and after work.) . . . He went to his home and told his wife what had happened and said, "It seems as though all the fellows have agreed to poison me." His wife said to him, "Can't you see the hand of the Lord in this, that He is making you dislike the stuff that has been your ruin?" This word brought conviction to the man's heart and he came to the meeting and got saved. The Lord has still power to set the captives free.



-- Smith Wigglesworth

Being Born of God 11/9 Wed. wisdom

"Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." What is the outcome of being born of God? God's life, God's truth, God's walk, God's communion, fellowship, oneness, like-mindedness. All that pertaineth to holiness, righteousness and truth comes forth out of this new birth unto righteousness. And in it, through it, and by it we have a perfect regenerated position just as we have come into light through this.


-- Smith Wiggleworth

So Built Up 11/8 Tuesday truth

God wants us all to be so built up in truth, righteousness, and the life of God that every person we come in contact with may know of a truth that we are of God.  And we who are of God can assure our hearts before Him, and we can have perfect confidence.

          -- Smith Wigglesworth

Wanting God! 11/7 Monday meditation

Wanting God! Wanting fellowship in the Spirit! Wanting the walk with Him! Wanting communion with Him! Everything else is no good. You want the association with God, and God says, "I will come and walk with you. I will sup with you and you with Me, and I will live in you." A joyful hallelujah! Attaining to a spiritual majority, a fulness of Christ, a place where God becomes the perfect Father and the Holy Ghost has a rightful place now as never before.




-- Smith Wigglesworth

Bride and Bridegroom 11/4 Friday faith

"As He is, so are we in this world."  What a word!  Who dare believe it?  God only can take up on to such heights and depths and lengths and breadths in the Spirit.  Brother, sister, are you prepared to go all the way?  Are you willing for heights and depths and lengths and breadths?  Are you willing for your heart to have only one attraction?  Are you willing to have only one lover?  Are you willing for Him to become the very perfect Bridegroom?  For I understand the more bride-like we are, the more we love to hear the Bridegroom's voice, and the less bride-like we are, the less we long to His Word.  If you cannot rest without it, if it becomes your meat day and night, if you eat and drink of it, His life will be in you and when He appears you will go.  Help us, Jesus!

        -- Smith Wigglesworth

The Future 11/3 Thursday thoughts

The future is what you are today.   The future is not what you are going to be tomorrow.  This is the day when God makes the future possible.  When God can get something through you today, tomorrow is filled with further illumination of God's possibility for you.

             -- Smith Wigglesworth

A Quenchless Thirst 11/2 Wed. wisdom

God, just come and make me so that there is not a possibility for me to ever be satisfied but to have  a quenchless thirst for the living God!  And then I shall not be overtaken.  Then I shall be ready.  Then I shall have eyes which beam, filled with the extremity of delight looking at the Master.

        -- Smith Wigglesworth

Thorn in the Flesh 11/1 Tuesday truth

Where people are in sickness you find frequently that they are dense about Scripture.  They usually know three scriptures though.  They know about Paul's thorn in the flesh, and that Paul told Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach's sake, and that Paul left someone sick somewhere; they forget his name, and don't remember the name of the place, and don't know where the chapter is.  Most people think they have  a thorn in the flesh.  The chief thing in dealing with a person who is sick is to locate their exact position [level of faith].  As you are ministering under the Spirit's power, the Lord will let you see just that which will be the most helpful and the most faith-inspiring to them.

          -- Smith Wigglesworth

More Than Ordinary 10/31 Monday meditation

Remember, today is not Halloween.  It's the eve of All Saints (All Hallows) Day.  Nov. 1, All Saints Day, is the day when we remember all who were martyred for their faith.   Nov. 2 is All Souls Day, when we remember all who died ordinary deaths as believers.

Beloved, God wants us to be something more than ordinary people.  Remember this, whosoever you are, if you are ordinary you have not touched the ideal principles of God.  The only thing that God has for man is to be extraordinary.  God has no room for an ordinary man.  There are millions of ordinary people in the world. . .  But when God lays hold of a man He makes him extraordinary in personality, power, unction, thought and activity.

             --  Smith Wigglesworth

If this quote sounds familiar, I posted a similar quote from a different sermon at one time.  It deserves reinforcement.

Can He Do It For Me? 10/28 Friday faith

But you ask, "Can He do it for me?"  "Yes, if you believe it."  Brother, faith is the victory. . . Thirty years ago this body you see was sick and helpless and dying.  God, in an instant, healed me.  I am now sixty-five years within a day or two and so free and healthy; oh, it is wonderful!  There are people in this place who ought to be healed in a moment.  People who ought to receive the Holy Ghost in a moment.  The power of possibility is in the reach of every man.  The Holy Ghost is full of the rising tide.  Every one of us can be filled to overflowing.  God is here with His divine purpose to change our weakness into mighty strength and faith.  The Word of God!  Oh, brother, sister, have you got it?  It is marrow to your bones.  It is unction.  It is resurrection from every weakness, it is life from the dead.

         -- Smith Wigglesworth

Mightier 10/27 Thursday thoughts

Any person that has come to the place of this word, "...greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world," which is a divine proposition, is mightier than all the pwoers of darkness, is mightier than the power of disease, mightier than his own self.  There is something reigning supremely great in him more than in the world when he is in that place.  But beloved, we must come to the place of a knowledge.  It is not sufficient for you to quote the Word of God.  You never come to a place of righteousness, of truth, until you are in possession of these things which I am giving you by the Word.

          -- Smith Wigglesworth

Bigger Than We Know 10/26 Wed. wisdom

The Holy Ghost would have us clearly understand that we are a million times bigger than we know.  Every Christian in this place has no conception of what you are. . .  I want to . . . tell you if you only knew what you had, your body would scarcely be able to contain you.

  -- Smith Wigglesworth

Unveiling of Jesus 10/25 Tuesday truth

The Holy Ghost wants everybody to see the unveiling of Jesus.  The unveiling of Jesus is to take away yourself and to place Himself in us; to take away all your human weakness and put within you that wonderful Word of eternal power, of eternal life, which makes you believe that all things are possible.

          -- Smith Wigglesworth, 1924

Inward Power 10/24 Monday meditation

No person who has Jesus as the inward power of his body needs to be trembling when Satan comes around.  All he has to do is to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.

    -- Smith Wigglesworth

God's Word 10/21 Friday faith

God has made His Word so precious that, if I could not get another copy, I would not part with my Bible for all the world.  There is life n the Word.  There is virtue in it.  I find Christ in it; and He is the One I need for spirit, soul, and body.  It tells me of the power of His name and of the power of His blood for cleansing.  The lions may lack and suffer hunger, "...but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing"  (Psalm 34:10).

    -- Smith Wigglesworth

Where Men Lack 10/20 Thurs. thoughts

[The Gospels] will never fail to accomplish the work of God if people will but read and believe them.


That is where men lack. All lack of faith is due to not feeding on God's Word. You need it every day. How can you enter into a life of faith? Feed on the livng Christ of whom this Word is full. As you get taken up with the glorious fact and the wondrous presence of the living Chrsit, the faith of God will spring up within you. ". . . faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17).

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Impossible to Miss 10/19 Wed. wisdom

Peter had been at the fishing business all his life, but he never had caught a fish with any silver in its mouth. But the Master does not want us to reason things out -- for carnal reasoning will always land us in a bog of unbelief -- but just to obey. . . There were millions of fish in the sea, but every fish had to stand aside and leave the bait alone, and let that fish with a piece of money in his mouth come up and take it.




Do you not see that the words of the Master are the instruction of faith? It is impossible for anything to miss that Jesus says. All His words are spirit and life. If you will only have faith in Him you will find that every word that God gives is life. You cannot be in close touch with Him, and you cannot receive His Word in simple faith without feeling the effect of it in your body as well as in your spirit and soul.



-- Smith Wigglesworth

Keep in Memory 10/18 Tuesday truth

Do you keep in memory how God has been gracious in the past?  God has done wonderful things for all of us.  If we keep these things in memory we shall become strong in faith.  We should be able to defy Satan in everything.  Remember all the way the Lord has led.
   
    -- Smith Wigglesworth

Men of Prayer 10/17 Monday meditation

"What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men — men of prayer."




-- E. M. Bounds

More and More 10/14 Friday faith

The grace of God that was given to the persecuting Saul is available for you.  The same Holy Ghost infilling he received is likewise available.  Do not rest satisfied with any lesser experience than the baptism that the disciples received on the day of Pentecost, then move on to a life of continuous receiving of more and more of the blessed Spirit of God.

       -- Smith Wigglesworth

Feast of Tabernacles: Thursday thoughts

Happy Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). This meditation, which I pieced together from a couple sources, gives a Christian perspective and a good spiritual lesson.




Sukkot, or the Feast of the Tabernacles, begins at sunset on Wednesday, October 12 and runs until sundown on the 19th. This festival not only marks a time of thanksgiving for God’s provision, but it also commemorates the Jews’ deliverance from bondage in Egypt and their subsequent wandering in the desert for 40 years without a permanent place to call “home.” During Sukkot, Jews and Messianic Jews (who believe in Jesus) construct booths outside their synagogues and homes. These booths, consisting of improvised walls and open roofs covered with branches or leaves, resemble the temporary shelters that Jews erected while living in the desert.



The word Sukkot means "booths", a reference to the temporary dwellings that are built and inhabited during the festival.



At the end of the eight days, the Jews leave their temporary dwellings to return to their permanent homes. (This is one of the reasons some suspect that this feast, rather than the Feast of Trumpets, is suggestive of the Rapture of the Church.) This day, traditionally, is the day that Solomon dedicated the first Temple.



In the time of Jesus, Sukkot involved a daily processional to the Pool of Siloam to fetch water for the Temple. This ceremonial procession is the setting for the events of John 7, where Jesus offers his listeners "living water."



As Christians we may not celebrate many of the traditional Jewish holidays, yet they hold great spiritual and prophetic significance. Colossians 2:16-17 says, "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come." (emphasis added)



Most observers note that the three spring festivals - Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, and Feast of First Fruits - are prophetic of the Lord's First Coming. They each were also fulfilled on the day they were observed.



Between these three spring feasts and the final three fall feasts is the Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost, which is predictive of the Church.



It is believed that the last three feasts, in the fall, are prophetic of the Lord's Second Coming. It seems little coincidence that the seventh day of Sukkot is called Hoshanah Rabbah - "Great Salvation". Many believers are particularly watchful each fall in the hopes that "this" will be the year these final three feasts are fulfilled when Jesus comes again.



The Sukkot festival is a great reminder to us to rejoice in the Lord’s constant protection of and provision for us. But it also reminds us that our homes are temporary dwellings and that life is fleeting. Our permanent home with the Lord awaits us.



We find this expressed beautifully in the New Testament book of Hebrews, describing our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: “All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth” (Hebrews 11:13).



Next time we are discouraged by our circumstances and our current struggles, it helps to remember it is only temporary.

Living Water 10/12 Wed. wisdom

Oh, it always seems to me that the Gospel is robbed of its divine glory when we overlook this marvelous truth of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.  To be saved is wonderful, to be a new creature, to have passed from death unto life, to have the witness of the Spirit that you are born of God, all this is unspeakably precious.   But whereas we have the well of salvation bubbling up, we need to go on to a place where from within us shall flow rivers of living water.   The Lord Jesus showed us very plainly that, if we believe on Him, from within us should flow rivers of living water.  And this He spake of the Spirit.  The Lord wants us to be filled with the Spirit, to have the manifestation of the presence of  His Spirit, the manifestation that is indeed given to profit withal, and for us to be His mouthpiece and speak as the very oracles of God.

     -- Smith Wigglesworth

Joy of the Lord: Tuesday truth

. . . the children of God are the only people who are really glad. We are glad inside and we are glad outside. Our gladness flows from the inside. God has filled us with joy unspeakable and full of glory. This is probably how Paul himself felt when he refers to being "beside ourselves" in the Lord. This joy in the Holy Ghost is beyond anything else. And this joy of the Lord is our strength.


-- Smith Wigglesworth

Hemorrhoids 10/10 Monday meditation

I suffered for many years from piles [hemorrhoids], till my whole body was thoroughly weak; the blood used to gush from me. One day I got desperate and I took a bottle of oil and anointed myself. I said to the Lord, "Do what You want to, quickly." I was healed at that very moment. God wants us to have an activity of faith that dares to believe God. There is what seems like faith, an appearance of faith, but real faith believes God right to the end.


-- Smith Wigglesworth

Yom Kippur : Friday faith

Yom Kippur begins at sundown Friday, October 7, and continues until sundown Saturday, October 8. The holiest day in the Jewish year, the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), is spent in fasting, prayer, and confession. This was one gracious day a year given by God that each individual could receive forgiveness. According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a book, the Book of Life, on Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year, Sept. 29 this year), and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. During the ten Days of Awe, a Jew tries to amend his or her behavior and seek forgiveness for wrongs done against God and against other human beings.


In Bible times the high priest entered the holy of holies to make atonement for the nation by sacrificing an animal (Lev. 23:26-32). Although Jesus was without sin, Yom Kippur would have been a holy day for Him, in which He no doubt grieved over the sins of the whole world.

Jesus has provided our atonement, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…” (Rom. 3:23) and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Him.

On this Yom Kippur, confess your sins and pray that Jews who are seeking forgiveness would encounter Yeshua / Jesus as the Lamb of God who was sacrificed for the sins of the world.

Peace Multiplied 10/6 Thursday thoughts

Not only is grace multiplied to us through knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ, but peace also.  As we really know our God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent, we will have peace multiplied to us even in the multiplied lives of ten thousand Nebuchadnezzars.  It will be multiplied to us even though we are put into the den of lions, and we will live with joy in the midst of the whole thing. . .  All our victories are won before we go into the fight.  Prayer links us on to our lovely God, our abounding God, our multiplying God. Oh, I love Him!  He is so wonderful!

      -- Smith Wigglesworth

Realm of Grace 10/5 Wed. wisdom

Oh, what privileges are ours when we are born of God.  How marvelously He keeps us so that the wicked one touches us not.  I see a place in God where Satan dare not come.  Hidden in God.  And He invites us all to come and share this wonderful hidden place where our lives are hid with Christ in God, where we dwell in the secret place of the Most High and abide under the shadow of the Almighty.   God has this place for you in this blessed realm of grace.

             -- Smith Wigglesworth

Everlasting 10/4 Tuesday truth

God's Word is from everlasting to everlasting.  His Word cannot lie.  God's Word is true and when we rest in the fact of its truth, what mighty results we can get.

      -- Smith Wigglesworth

No end to blessing 10/3 Monday meditation

Yes, every person in the whole wide world who is saved by faith is blessed with faithful Abraham.  The promise which came to him because he believed God was that in him all the families of the earth should be blessed.  When we believe God there is no knowing where the blessing of our faith will end.

             -- Smith Wigglesworth

Walking Epistles 9/30 Friday faith

The Lord would have us to be walking epistles of His Word. Jesus is the Word and is the power in us, and it is His desire to work in and through us His own good pleasure. We must believe that He is in us. There are boundless possibilities for us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe that the wonderful virtue of our living Christ shall be made manifest through us as we lay our hands on the sick in His name.


         -- Smith Wigglesworth

Happy New Year! 9/29 Thursday thoughts

Happy New Year!   Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown, Wednesday, September 28.   According to Jewish tradition, this is the day on which God created the earth.   It has vastly more significance than an arbitrary date such as January 1.   Besides, if prophesy continues to be literally fulfilled, Jesus will return on a Rosh HaShanah, the Feast of Trumpets, when "the last trumpet" is sounded (1 Cor. 15:52).   My prayer / ministry partner and I will be attending the Rosh HaShanah praise and worship celebration at Sar Shalom Messianic Congregation in Mansfield (Jewish and gentile Pentecostal believers who confess Jesus as Messiah and observe the Jewish festivals which Jesus celebrated).   The article below explains the significance for Christians:





ROSH HASHANNAH / FEAST OF TRUMPETS : As Jews all over the globe sound the shofar and celebrate Rosh Hashanah (the Feast of Trumpets) yearly, the vast majority of Christians have absolutely no idea that the Feast of Trumpets, called Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew, is actually a Christian holiday, too.

It is a holiday that was created by YHWH : it is a holiday that Y’shua (Jesus) celebrated; it is a holiday that the first Believers celebrated; it is a holiday that foreshadows the return of Y’shua; and it is a holiday that the entire world will celebrate during the 1,000 year reign of Y’shua on earth.

Sadly, most Christians don't know the first thing about this amazing festival—but they should learn about it. The truth is that YHWH has always had His most important events foreshadowed by His festivals and has always had His most important events actually fall on the dates of these festivals. In other words, YHWH’s redemption plan for mankind is encoded in the seven main feasts of Leviticus chapter 23. Passover (Pesach) foreshadowed the sacrifice of Y’shua on the crucifixion stake and it was fulfilled on that day. Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzah) represents Y’shua’s three days in the grave. Firstfruits (Bikkurim) represent Y’shua’s resurrection after three days. Pentecost (Shavuot) foreshadowed the giving of the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) and it was fulfilled on that day. The first four festivals were fulfilled not only to the day, but the hour! Why will the last three, which deals with Y’shua’s Second Coming, not be fulfilled—also to the hour?

... So what does the Feast of Trumpets foreshadow? It foreshadows the last trumpet before the return of Messiah Y’shua, and it is a certainty that it will be fulfilled on that day as well! Most Christians have never learned any of this . . . 
    --  Hebrew Roots Teaching Institute  (a Facebook group)

The traditional food, by the way, is apples dipped in honey for a sweet and fruitful new year.

Tested in the Fire 9/28 Wed. wisdom

Beloved, if you are tested in the fire, the Master is cleaning away all that cannot bring out the image, cleaning away all the dross from your life, and every evil power, till He sees His face right in the life, till He sees His face right in your life.

             -- Smith Wigglesworth

Lively Hope 9/27 Tuesday truth

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.    -- 1 Peter 1:3

Lively hope is movement.
Lively hope is looking into.
Lively hope is pressing into.
Lively hope is leaving everything behind you.
Lively hope is keeping the vision.
Lively hope sees Him coming!

And you live in it, the lively hope.  You are not trying to make yourself feel that you are believing, but the lively hope is ready, waiting.   Lively hope is filled with joy of expectation of the King.  Praise the Lord!
                 --Smith Wigglesworth

No "buts" 9/26 Monday meditation

There are no "buts" in sanctification of the Spirit.  "But" and "if" are gone, and it is "shall" and "I will" all the way through. 

Beloved if there are any "buts" in your attitude toward the Word of truth there is something unyielded to the Spirit.

             -- Smith Wigglesworth, 1924

An Angel of Light 9/23 Friday faith

Lord, bring us to a place of humility and brokenheartedness where we will see the danger of satanic powers.  Don't you believe the devil is a big ugly monster; he comes as an angel of light, and he comes at a time when you have done well, and tells you about it.  He comes to make you feel you are somebody.

            -- Smith Wiggglesworth

Under His Power 9/22 Thursday thoughts

I want you to notice that Jesus want you to be so under His power, so controlled by, and filled with the Holy Ghost, that the power of authority in you will resent all evil.   . . .

I want to impress you with this fact that every believer should reach a place in the Holy Ghost where he has no desire except the desire of God.  The Holy Ghost has to possess us till we are filled, led, yes, divinely led by the Holy Ghost.  It is a mighty thing to be filled with the Holy Ghost.

          -- Smith Wigglesworth

God wants no dwarfs. 9/21 Wednesday wisdom

Beloved, there is such a thing as people thinking they are full and rich, and knowing not that they are hungry, poor, and blind.  The worst thing that can come to anyone, to a child of God, is to be satisfied -- it is an awful position.    . . .

God has grace for us all.  God does not want any dwarfs.  God is looking for a hungry people, a thirsty land.

                  -- Smith Wigglesworth

Always an Enlargement 9/20 Tuesday truth

People say to me, "Have you not the gift of faith?"  I say that it is an important gift, but what is still more important is for us every moment to be making an advancement in God.  Looking at the Word of God today I find that its realities are greater to me today than they were yesterday.  It is the most sublime, joyful truth that God brings an enlargement.  Always an enlargement.  There is nothing dead, dry, or barren in this life of the Spirit; God is always moving us on to something higher, and as we move on in the Spirit of faith, it will always rise to the occasion as different circumstances arise.

       -- Smith Wigglesworth

The Power of God 9/19 Monday meditation

The power of God is beyond all our conception.  The trouble is that we do not have the power of God in a full manifestation because of our finite thoughts, but as we go on and let God have His way, there is no limit to what our limitless God will do in response to a limitless faith.  But you will never get anywhere except you are in constant pursuit of all the power of God.

      -- Smith Wigglesworth

Tenderness in Your Soul 9/16 Friday faith

Today's quote is by John G. Lake, who had one of the greatest healing ministries of all time, in South Africa and in Spokane, Washington.

"Beloved, if you are baptized in the Holy Ghost, there will be a tenderness in your soul so deep that you will never crush the aspiration of another by a single suggestion, but your soul will throb and beat and pulse in love, and your heart will be under that one to lift it up to God and push it out as far into the glory as your faith can send it."

                                                                  - John G. Lake

Prayer Quotes 9/15 Thursday thoughts

 From an email sent out by our pastor:   (credit at bottom)



Too much of our literature regarding prayer is overfocused on how much we pray and too little focused on what happens when we pray. If one danger in regard to prayer is to be prayerless, another is to pray more and remain empty of genuine contact with God.

Prayer is not about informing God of your needs, nor is it even about trying to convince God to help you. Prayer is about connecting to God. It is about experiencing His presence and moving with Him in intimate communion.

Prayer is an obstacle when we keep praying about things of which God has already spoken.

The purpose of prayer is to keep you connected, and when you're connected to God, you are moving with Him. Prayer that connects you to God positions you to seize divine moments.

And when you pray with intent to obey, you become a magnet who draws others into God's presence.

JESUS DID NOT HAVE A VALUE FOR PRAYER FOR PRAYER'S SAKE. HE HAD A VALUE FOR THE INTIMATE COMMUNION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN.



Erwin Raphael McManus. Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

Open Your Mouth 9/14 Wednesday wisdom

Continuing with my week's break from Wigglesworth for some miscellaneous quotes.

This one comes from my Facebook friend Chandan Salvi, a pastor from India, who follows my "Lep's Faith Quotes"  blog on Facebook.   Chandan and I have emailed and IM'd several times, and I've become a prayer partner for his family and ministry.   Used by permission.

Matt 1:31 & 35 states that virgin Mary conceived through the Holy Spirit. She became pregnant and carried Jesus, Which is "Word" as per Jn 1:1 and 1 Jn 1:1. Later this pregnant Mary went to meet her cousin Elisabeth, who was also pregnant. Matt 1:40 says Mary offered words of greetings to Elisabeth. and as soon as she heard the salutation, the baby in Elisabeth's womb leaped and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. (Vs. 40,41).


Conclusion: We need to be filled (pregnant) with the WORD of God. and if we are filled we only need to open our mouth and the ministry of Holy Spirit will begin.

They Pray 9/13 Tuesday truth

Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) is called "The Prince of Preachers". He pastored what was then the world's largest Protestant church and the first megachurch, Metropolitan Tabernacle in London.  It is estimated that he preached to 20 million people in his lifetime.   This is a quote from the biography Charles Spurgeon, by J.C. Carlile, his friend and biographer.

"In our country," the American continued, "there are many opinions as to the secret of your great influence.  Would you be good enough to give me your own point of view?"

After a moment's pause, Spurgeon said, "My people pray for me."

No Conversions 9/12 Monday meditation

I'm going to break away from Smith Wigglesworth for a few days to share some other quotes I've found recently.

Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) is called "The Prince of Preachers".   He pastored what was then the world's largest Protestant church and the first megachurch, Metropolitan Tabernacle in London.   This is a quote from the biography Charles Spurgeon, by J.C. Carlile, his friend and biographer.

The conversion of his hearers was the constant aim of his ministry, and therefore the constant result of it. . .  His often-quoted rejoinder to his first student came from his own experience.  When Medhurst complained that he was not having conversions, Spurgeon said in assumed surprise:   "But you do not expect conversions every time you preach, do you?"  "Oh, no, of course not!"   "And that is why you do not have them!"

Out of Cash 9/9 Friday faith

One of our workers said to me at Christmas time, "Wigglesworth, I never was so near the end of my purse in my life."  I replied, "Thank God, you are just at the opening of God's treasures."  It is when we are at the end of our own that we can enter into the riches of God's resources.  It is when we possess nothing that we can possess all things.  The Lord will always meet you when you are on the line of living.

     -- Smith Wigglesworth

Thirst for the Word 9/8 Thursday thoughts

The child of God ought to thirst for the Word.  He should know nothing else but the Word, and should know nothing among men save Jesus.  "...Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4).  It is as we feed on the Word and        MEDITATE ON THE MESSAGE       it contains, that the Spirit of God can vitalize that which we have received, and bring forth through us the word of knowledge that will be as full of power and life as when He, the Spirit of God, moved upon holy men of old and gave them these inspired Scriptures. 

           -- Smith Wigglesworth  [emphasis his]

A.B. Simpson quotes 9/1 Thursday thoughts

Switching today to some quotes by Dr. A.B. Simpson, founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance.

No one is fitted for the humblest service in the church of God until he receives the divine baptism in the Holy Spirit.

We may expect as the end approaches that the Holy Ghost will work in the healing of sickness, in the casting out of demons, in remarkable answers to prayer, in special and wonderful providences and in such forms as may please His sovereign will -- to prove to an unbelieving world that the power of Jesus' Name is still unchanged.

A reminder that the annual Alliance "Rekindle the Flame" charismatic conference is in Akron (Copley) in April.
Another reminder:   This will be my last post until mid-week next week, as we will be on vacation.

Satan's Devices 8/31 Wed. wisdom

We have not passed this way hitherto.  I believe that Satan has many devices and that they are worse today than ever before; but I also believe that there is to be a full manifestation on the earth of the power and glory of God to defeat every device of Satan.

         -- Smith Wigglesworth

Manifest His Glory 8/30 Tuesday truth

I find that, in all my Lord did, He said that He did not do it, but that another in Him did the work.   What a holy submission!  He was just an instrument for the glory of God.  Have we reached a place where we dare to be trusted with the gift?  I see it 1 Corinthians 13 that if I have faith to remove mountains and have not charity, all is a failure.  When my love is so deepened in God that I only move for the glory of God, then the gifts can be made manifest.  God wants to be manifested, and to manifest His glory to humble spirits.

                             -- Smith Wigglesworth

Holiness and Worldliness 8/29 Monday meditation

I do not find anything in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness.  Therefore, if I live in the world I shall become worldly; but, on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I shall become holy. . . The power of God can remodel you.  He can make you hate sin and love righteousness.  He can take away bitterness and hatred and covetousness and malice, and can so consecrate you by His power, through His blood, that you are made pure -- every bit holy.  Pure in mind, heart and actions -- pure right through.

    -- Smith Wigglesworth

Not a Failure 8/26 Friday faith

(continued from Thursday)

Do you think that God would make you to be a failure?  God has never made man to be a failure. He made man to be a "son"; to walk about the earth in power; and so when I look at you I know that there is a capability that can be put into you which has the capacity of controlling and bringing everything into subjection.  Yes, there is a capacity of the power of Christ to dwell in you, to bring every evil thing under you till you can put your feet upon it, and be master over the flesh and the devil; till within you there is nothing rises except that which will magnify and glorify the Lord.

         -- Smith Wigglesworth

No Defeat 8/25 Thursday thoughts

God is able to so transform and change and bring you into order by the Spirit that you can become a new creation after God's order.  There is no such thing as defeat for the believer.  Without the cross, without Christ's righteousness, without the new birth, without the indwelling Christ, without this divine incoming of God, I see myself a failure.  But God, the Holy Ghost, can come in and take our place till we are renewed in righteousness -- made the children of god.  Nay, verily, the sons of God.  (to be continued)

       -- Smith Wigglesworth

Source of Strength 8/24 Wed. wisdom

It was quite natural for Jesus after He had served a whole day amongst the multitudes to want to go to His Father and pray all night.  Why?  He wanted a source of strength and power, and an association with His Father which would bring everything else to a place of submission; and when Jesus came from the mountain after communion with His Father . . . when He met the demon power it had to go out.  When He met sickness, it had to leave. . . It is an awful thing for me to see people, who profess to be Christian, lifeless and powerless, and in a place where their lives are so parallel with the world's that it is difficult to discriminate which place they are in, whether in the flesh or in the Spirit.  Many people are in the place which is described to us by Paul in Romans 7:25:  ... with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

                -- Smith Wigglesworth

Purity is bold. 8/23 Tuesday truth

After they received the power of the inducement of the Holy Ghost upon them, if you remember, they were made like lions to meet any difficulty.  They were made to stand any test, and these men that failed before the crucifixion, when the power of God fell upon them in the upper room, they came out in front of all those people who were gathered together and accused them of crucifying the Lord of glory.  They were bold.  What had made them so?  I will tell you.  Purity is bold. . . The more pure, the more bold; and I tell you, God wants to bring us into that divine purity of heart and life -- that holy boldness. . . a pure, holy, divine appointment by One Who will come in and live with you, defying the powers of Satan, and standing you in a place of victory -- overcoming the world.

          -- Smith Wigglesworth

Transmitting 8/22 Monday meditation

Oh, if there is anything in the Scriptures that is moving me to understand, it is that there is a transmitting condition, there is a power that goes through the human body to another body.  I see that it is in perfect conjunction with the Scriptures that we lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

           -- Smith Wigglesworth

Immersed in the life of God 8/19 Friday faith

There is a necessity for every one of us to be filled with God.  It is not sufficient to have just a "touch," or to be filled with a "desire."  There is only one thing that will meet the needs of the people, and that is for you to be immersed in the life of God -- God taking you, and making you so filled with His Spirit, till you live right in God; so that whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, it may be all for the glory of God, and in that place you will find that all your strength and all your mind and all your soul are filled with a zeal, not only for worship, but for proclamation; proclamation accompanied by all the power of God, which must move satanic power, disturb the world, and make it feel upset.

              -- Smith Wigglesworth

Occasionally ... Sometimes 8/18 Thurs. thoughts

The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is because Christian people are not filled with Jesus.  They are satisfied with weekly meetings, and occasionally reading the Bible, and sometimes praying.  Beloved, if God lays hold of you by the Spirit, you will find that there is an end of everything and a beginning of God, so that your whole body becomes seasoned with a divine likeness of God. 

          -- Smith Wigglesworth

Snippets 8/17 Wednesday wisdom

Some miscellaneous snippets from Smith Wigglesworth:

God has nothing small.

It took nine months to bring us forth into the world after we were conceived, but it only takes one moment to beget us as sons.

If you are filled with the Spirit, you will be superabounding in life -- living waters will flow from you.

Inward Purity 8/16 Tuesday truth

Oh, this holiness!  Can we be made pure?  We can.  Every inbred sin must go.  God can cleanse away every evil thought.  Can we have a hatred for sin and a love for righteousness?  Yes, God will create within thee a pure heart.  He will take away the stony heart out of the flesh.  He will sprinkle thee with clean water and thou shalt be cleansed from all thy filthiness.  When will He do it?  When you seek Him for such inward purity.

               -- Smith Wigglesworth

An Open Door 8/15 Monday meditation

Before Satan can bring his evil spirits, there has to be an open door . . .   How does Satan get an opening?  When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites.  Then it is that Satan comes. . .  David said, "Before I was afflicted I went astray..." (Psalm 119:67).  Seek the Lord and He will sanctify every thought, every act, till your whole being is ablaze with holy purity and your one desire will be for Him who has created you in holiness.

          -- Smith Wigglesworth

We become holy 8/12 Friday faith

There is a life of perfect deliverance, and this is where God wants you to be.  If I find my peace is disturbed on any line, I know it is the enemy who is trying to work.  How do I know this?  Because the Lord has promised to keep your mind in perfect peace when it is stayed on Him (Isaiah 26:3).  Paul tells us to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service.  
. . .
As we think about that which is pure, we become pure.  As we think about that which is holy, we become holy.  And as we think about our Lord Jesus Christ, we become like Him.  We are changed into the likeness of the object on which our gaze is fixed.

    -- Smith Wigglesworth

Backslider 8/11 Wednesday wisdom

God has been revealing to me that any man [even] if he does not sin, if he remains in the same place for a week he is a backslider. . .  Two days the same would almost be that you had lost the vision.  The child of God must have a fresh vision every day, the child of God must be more active by the Holy Ghost every day.  The child of God must come into line with the power of heaven, where He knows that God has put His hand upon him.
                                             -- Smith Wigglesworth

God has no room 8/10 Wed. wisdom

God has no room for ordinary men.  A man can be swept by the power of God in his first stage of revelation of Christ, and from that moment has to be an extraordinary man, but to be filled with the Holy Ghost he has to become a free, free body for God to dwell in, and no man can have Trinity abiding in him and be as he was before, so I appeal to you tonight, you people who have been filled with the Holy Ghost, I appeal to you whatever is the cost, let God have His way.

          -- Smith Wigglesworth

For Them Who Believe 8/9 Tuesday truth

And before He went to the glory, He told His disciples that they should receive the power of the Holy Ghost upon them, too.  Thus, through them, His gracious ministry would continue.  This power of the Holy Ghost was not only for a few apostles, but even for them that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God should call (Acts 2:39), even for us away down in this twentieth century.  Some ask, "But was not this power just for the privileged few in the first century?"  No.  Read the Master's great commission as recorded by Mark, and you will see it is for them who believe.

              -- Smith Wigglesworth, 1923

Petrified 8/8 Monday meditation

Taking a break from Smith Wigglesworth today to copy this quote I found from John G. Lake:

The difficulty with church has been that men were induced to confess their sins to Christ and acknowledge Him as Savior and there they stopped, there they petrified, there they withered, there they died, dry rotted. I believe that in these phrases I have expressed the real thing that has taken place in 85% percent of professing Christians.

                                                         -- John G. Lake

God is compassionate 8/5 Friday faith

God is compassionate and says, "Seek the Lord while he may be found..." (Isaiah 55:6).  And He has further stated, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13).  Seek Him now, call on His name right now, and there is forgiveness, healing, redemption, deliverance, and everything you need for you right here and now, and that which will satisfy you throughout eternity.

         -- Smith Wigglesworth

Savior and Healer 8/4 Thurs. thoughts

Our God is real in saving and healing power today.  Our Jesus is just the same, yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).  He saves and heals today just as of old, and He wants to be your Savior and your healer.                 -- Smith Wigglesworth

THIS SUNDAY AT NORWALK ALLIANCE CHURCH:  We will have a testimony of an immediate deliverance from longstanding back pain and leg numbness.   The following Sunday (Aug. 14) we will have a testimony of a healed heart.  The pacemaker / defibulator was removed because it was no longer needed.   Both happened to our church members in the last two weeks.

Deceptive Conditions 8/3 Wed. wisdom

(continued from Tuesday)
I come across people everywhere I go who are held bound by deceptive conditions, and these conditions have come about simply because they have allowed the devil to make their minds the place of his stronghold.  How are we to guard against this?  The Lord has provided us with weapons that are mighty through God to the pulling down of these strongholds of the enemy, and by means of which every thought shall be brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10: 4,5).  The blood of Jesus Christ and His mighty name are an antidote to all the subtle seeds of unbelief that Satan would sow in your minds.

       -- Smith Wigglesworth

"If" 8/2 Tuesday truth

Do you see how Jesus mastered the devil in the wilderness?  He knew He was the Son of God and Satan came along with an "if."  How many times has Satan come along to you this way?  He says, "After all, you may be deceived.  You know you really are not a child of God."  If the devil comes along and says that you are not saved, it is a pretty sure sign that you are.  When he comes and tells you that you are not healed, it may be taken as good evidence that the Lord has sent His Word and healed you (Psalm 107:20).  The devil know that if he can capture your thought life, he has won a mighty victory over you. His great business is injecting thoughts, but if you are pure and holy you will instantly shrink from them.  God wants us to let the mind that was in Christ Jesus, that pure, holy, humble mind of Christ, be in us.     (to be continued)

          --Smith Wigglesworth

Enter into the Promises 8/1 Monday meditation

Enter into the promises of God.  It is your inheritance.  You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.  I pray that you may be so filled with Him that it will not be possible for you to move without a revival of some kind resulting.

      -- Smith Wigglesworth, 1922

God has never ... 7/29 Friday faith

God has never put anything over on a pole where you could not reach it.  He has brought His plan down to man, and if we are prepared..., oh, what there is for us!  I feel sometimes we have just as much as we can digest, ye there are such divine nuggets of precious truth held before our hearts, it makes you understand that there are yet heights, and depths, and lengths, and breadths of the knowledge of God laid up for us.

              -- Smith Wigglesworth

You Are to Have the Gifts 7/28 Thurs. thoughts

You are to have the gifts, and claim them, and the Lord will certainly change your life and you will be new men and women.  Are you asking for a double portion this morning?  I trust that no one shall come behind in any gift.  You say, "I have asked; do you think God will be pleased to have me ask again?"  Yes, do before Him; ask again, and we may this morning go forth in the Spirit of the mantle, and it shall be no longer I, but the Holy Ghost, and we shall see and know His power because we believe.

     -- Smith Wigglesworth

Savorless Salt 7/27 Wednesday wisdom

If we do not move on with the Lord these days, and do not walk in the light of revealed truth, we shall become as the savorless salt, as a withered branch.  This one thing we must do, forgetting those things that are behind, the past failures and the past blessings, we must reach forth for those things which are before, and press toward the mark for the prize of our high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:13, 14).   . . .    God has no use for any man who is not hungering and thirsting for yet more of Himself and His righteousness.

       -- Smith Wigglesworth

Wonderful Miracles 7/26 Tuesday truth

We have been seeing wonderful miracles these last days and they are only a little of what we are going to see.  I believe that we are right on the threshold of wonderful things, but I want to emphasize that all these things will be through the power of the Holy Ghost.  You must not think that these gifts will fall upon you like ripe cherries.  There is a sense in which you have to pay the price for everything you get.  We must be covetous for God's best gifts, and say Amen to any preparation the Lord takes us through, in order that we may be humble, usable vessels through whom He Himself can operate by means of the Spirit's power.

                 -- Smith Wigglesworth

Greater is He 7/25 Monday meditation

Take your position in the first epistle of John and declare, "...greater is he that is in [me], than he that is in the world" (I John 4:4).  Then recognize that it is not yourself that has to deal with the power of the devil, but the Greater One that is in you.  Oh, what it means to be filled with Him.  You can do nothing of yourself, but He that is in you will win the victory.  Your being has become the temple of the Spirit.  Your mouth, your mind, your whole being becomes exercised and worked upon by the Spirit of God.

          -- Smith Wigglesworth

Right Place at the Right Time 7/22 Friday Faith

A preacher always loses out when he gets his mind on finances.  It is well for ... preachers to avoid making much of finances except to stir up people to help our missionaries on financial lines.  A preacher who gets big collections for missionaries need never fear, the Lord will take care of his finances.  A preacher should not land at a place and say that God has sent him.  I am always fearful when I hear a man advertising this.  If he is sent of God, the saints will know it.  God has His plans for His servants and we must so live in His plans that He will place us where He wants us.  If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

        -- Smith Wigglesworth

more to follow 7/21 Thursday thoughts

You know, beloved, in God's Word there is always more to follow, always more than we know, and oh, if we could only be babies. . . with a childlike mind to take in all the mind of God, what wonderful things would happen.  I wonder if you take the Bible just for yourself.  It is grand.  Never mind who takes only a part -- you take it all.  When we get such a thirst upon us that nothing can satisfy us but God, we shall have a royal time.

              -- Smith Wigglesworth

forgiveness of sin 7/20 Wednesday wisdom

. . . He is the only Jesus; He is the only plan; He is the only life; He is the only help; but thank God He has triumphed to the uttermost.  He came to seek and to save that which was lost, and He heals all who come to Him.

As the palsied man is let down through the roof, there is a great commotion, and all the people are gazing up at this strange sight.  We read, "When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee"  (Mark 2:5).  What had the forgiveness of sins to do with the healing of this man?  It had everything to do with it.  Sin is at the root of disease.  May the Lord cleanse us this afternoon from outward sin and from inbred sin, and take away from us all that hinders the power of God to work through us.

               -- Smith Wigglesworth

power, blessing, rest 7/19 Tuesday truth

Yes, there is a power, a blessing, an assurance, a rest in the presence of the Holy Ghost.  You can feel His presence and know that He is with you.  You need not spend an hour without this inner knowledge of His holy presence.  With His power upon you there can be no failure.  You are above par all the time.

    -- Smith Wigglesworth

filled with the Spirit 7/18 Monday meditation

God's command is for us to be filled with the Spirit.  We are no good if we only have a full cup.  We need to have an overflowing cup all the time.  It is a tragedy not to live in the fulness of overflowing.  See that you never live below the overflowing tide.

     -- Smith Wigglesworth

Stationary 7/15 Friday faith

(continued from Thursday -- about being "stationary" . . . stuck in a rut)

It is a serious thing to have the baptism [of the Holy Spirit] and yet be stationary; to live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy.  We must be willing to deny ourselves everything to receive the revelation of God's truth and to receive the fullness of the Spirit.  Only that will satisfy God, and nothing less must satisfy us.

           -- Smith Wigglesworth,  1923

Stuck in a Rut 7/14 Thursday thoughts

For some years I was associated with (name of a British denomination).  They are very strong on the Word, and are sound on water baptism, and they do not neglect the breaking of bread service, but have it every Lord's day morning as they had it in the early church.  These people seem to have everything except the match.  They have the wood, but they need the fire and they would be all ablaze.  Because they lack the fire of the Holy Spirit, there is no life in their meetings.  One young man who attended their meetings received the baptism with the speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance.  The brethren were very upset about this and came to the father and said to him, "You must take your son aside and tell him to cease."  They did not want any disturbance.  The father told the son and said, "My boy, I have been attending this church for twenty years and have never seen anything of this kind.  We are established in the truth and do not want anything new.  We won't have it."  The son replied, "If that is God's plan I will obey, but somehow or other I don't think it is."  As they were going home the horse stood still, the wheels were in deep ruts.  The father pulled at the reins but the horse did not move.  He asked, "What do you think is up?"  The son answered, "It has got established."  God save us from becoming stationary.                  (to be continued)

           -- Smith Wigglesworth

Filled with the Spirit 7/13 Wednesday wisdom

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.  It is impossible for us to meet the conditions of the day, to walk in the light as He is in the light, to subdue kingdoms and work righteousness and bind the powers of Satan unless we are filled with the Holy Ghost.

                  -- Smith Wigglesworth

Hungry for More 7/12 Tuesday truth

There is a great weakness in the church of Christ because of an awful ignorance concerning the Spirit of God and the gifts He has come to bring.  God would have us powerful on all lines because of the revelation of the knowledge of His will concerning the power and manifestation of His Spirit.  He would have us ever hungry to receive more and more of His Spirit.   . . .   A man who is not hungry to receive more of God is out of order in any convention.

                    -- Smith Wigglesworth

"Shall be filled" 7/11 Monday meditation

Back from a week's vacation.  I've read some more of the complete teachings of Smith Wigglesworth and I'm armed with a new set of quotes that I've found exciting.

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).  Note that word, "shall be filled.  If you ever see a "shall" in the Bible, make it yours.  Meet the conditions and God will fulfill His Word to you.   . . .

God is making people hungry and thirsty after His best.  And everywhere He is filling the hungry and giving them that which the disciples received at the very beginning.  Are you hungry?  If you are, God promises that you shall be filled.

         -- Smith Wigglesworth

Alas! we will not take the receptive attitude of faith. Jesus bids us “ask and receive” that our “joy may be full.” We obey His command in asking, but we do not throw open our souls that we may receive. God’s word to us is, “Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it” (Psa. 81:10), yet we do not pause in our cries of hunger to accept what is so freely offered.


--Carrie Judd Montgomery, 1881

I WILL BE ON VACATION THE WEEK OF JULY 4 AND WILL NOT BE POSTING.

Carrie Judd Montgomery 6/30 Thursday thoughts

Carrie Judd Montgomery


Jesus has said, “If any man thirst let him come unto Me and drink,” and the utterance of faith would be, “Lord Jesus, I come, and according to Thy word I do drink now.” And depending on that unfailing word we may rest in the sure conviction that marvelous refreshing will be shed abroad in our souls by that living draught. 1881
 
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Heavenly Father 6/29 Wed. wisdom

Carrie Judd Montgomery


‎"...I hardly knew how to pray, but would sometimes turn to my Heavenly Father and say to Him, ‘What dost Thou want?”'; because it seemed to me it was more His desire to obtain full possession of me than my desire for Himself."    1936

fresh anointing 6/28 Tuesday truth

Carrie Judd Montgomery


‎"After we have received the Holy Spirit in Pentecostal power, we must be faithful witnesses, letting the streams of living water ever flow through us for the salvation and blessing of men, or the waters will fail to flow and we shall be set aside from His service with only a memory of past blessing, and no liberty or fresh anointing in our lives." 1920

Overflowing Rivers 6/27 Monday meditation

Going back to Carrie Judd Montgomery for a week.  She was a preacher and author of the earliest days of the Azusa Revival and the Pentecostal movement.  A Christian and Missionary Alliance preacher (yes, we allowed women to preach and to pastor in the early days) who changed to The Assemblies of God when it was founded.   These quotes are from her Facebook group.





“Oh, I am sure that it is our privilege not to be half full, but to be filled to overflowing, and that all the time, and the overflowing rivers will then be poured out to a thirsty, lost world.” 1895

Temper 6/24 Friday faith

(This paragraph follows the story of the bad-tempered red-headed boy in Wigglesworth's article.)

I can remember the time when I used to go white with rage, and shake all over with temper.  I could hardly hold myself together.  I waited on God for ten days.  In those ten day I was being emptied out and the life of the Lord Jesus was being wrought into me.  My wife testified of the transformation that took place in my life, "I never saw such a change.  I have never been able to cook anything since that time that has not pleased him.  Nothing is too hot or too cold, everything is just right."  God must come and reign supreme in your life.  Will you let Him do it?  He can do it, and He will if you will let Him. It is no use trying to tame the "old man."  But God can deal with him.  The carnal mind will never be subjected to God, but God will bring it to the cross where it belongs, and will put in its place, the pure, the holy, the meek mind of the Master.

              -- Smith Wigglesworth

red hair temper 6/23 Thursday thoughts

In our Sunday school we had a boy with red hair.  His head was as red as fire and so was his temper.  He was such a trial.  He kicked his teachers and the superintendent.  He was imply uncontrollable.  The teachers had a meeting in which they discussed the matter of expelling him.  They thought that God might undertake for that boy and so they decided to give him another chance.  One day he had to be turned out, and he broke all the windows of the mission.  He was worse outside than in.  Sometime later we had a ten-day revival meeting.  There was nothing much doing in that meeting and people though it a waste of time, but there was one result -- the red-headed lad got saved.  After he was saved, the difficulty was to get rid of him at our house.  He would be there until midnight crying to God to make him pliable and use him for His glory.  God delivered the lad from his temper and made him one of the meekest, most beautiful boys you ever saw.  For twenty years he has been a mighty missionary in China.  God takes us just as we are and transforms us by His power.

               -- Smith Wigglesworth

Laugh 6/22 Wednesday wisdom

(continued from Tuesday . . . the next paragraph)

If you are sure of your ground, if you are counting on the presence of the living Christ within, you can laugh when you see things getting worse.  God would have you settled and grounded in Christ, and you become steadfast and unmoveable in Him.
                                                                  -- Smith Wigglesworth

Inheritance from God 6/21 Tuesday truth

Dare you take your inheritance from God?  Dare you believe God?  Dare you stand on the record of His Word?  What is the record?  If thou shalt believe, thou shalt see the glory of God.  You will be sifted as wheat.  You will be tried as though some strange thing tried you.  You will be put in places where you will have to put your whole trust in God.  There is no such thing as anyone being tried beyond what God will allow.  There is no temptation that will come, but God will be with you right in the temptation to deliver you, and when you have been tried, He will bring you forth as gold.  Every trial is to bring you to a greater position in God.  The trial that tries your faith will take you on to the place where you will know that the faith of God will be forthcoming in the next test.  No man is able to win any victory save through the power of the risen Christ within him.  You will never be able to say, "I did this or that."  You will desire to give God the glory for everything.

            -- Smith Wigglesworth

Power of God 6/20 Monday meditation

I come across some who would be giants in the power of God but they have no shout of faith. I find everywhere  people who go down [fail]even when they are praying simply because they are just breathing sentences without uttering speech, and you cannot get victory that way.  You must learn to take the victory and shout in the face of the devil, "It is done!"  

        -- Smith Wigglesworth