Revival Praying 4/29 Friday faith

Every time in the history of the church revival has come, it has followed extensive prayer and seeking of God's face by some of His children.  When we study the history of God's work on earth, we will always find faithful praying saints, often hidden, holding on before Him in prayer, pleading for God to revive His people.   . . .

God requires more than casual prayers for revival.  He wants His people to hunger and thirst for His mighty working.  To seek God's face is far more than occasionally mentioning revival in our prayer.  It involves repeated and prolonged prayer. . .  A revival seeker is eager to obey God in everything.

     -- Wesley Duewel, Revival Fire   (c) 1995,  Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI 48530

Revival Fire 4/28 Thurs. thoughts

I am going to take a break from quoting pioneer Pentecostal authors for a few days and take some quotes from the book I am currently rereading on my favorite subject, Revival Fire, by Wesley Duewel.   (c) 1995, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI 48530

God is more hungry to give us revival than we are hungry to be revived . . .

God wants us to remember and reflect on how He has worked in the past.  He wants this remembrance to make us hungry to see Him work again in all His historic power.  If God's people hunger deeply enough, God will hear and send revival.

(This is just a prelude to the theme will be continued in the days ahead.)

4/23 - 4/24 Holy Saturday / Resurrection Sunday meditation

I will not be posting meditations the first part of the week. My grandchildren will be here from North Carolina, and I am taking a vacation. Be back later in the week, probably with a different author.

"GLORY TO YOU" Written 1,700 Years Ago

from Jesus Daily on Facebook



What shall I give you, Lord, in return for all Your kindness?

Glory to You for Your love.

Glory to You for Your mercy.

Glory to You for Your patience.

Glory to You for forgiving us all our sins.

Glory to You for coming to save our souls.

Glory to You for Your incarnation in the virgin's womb.

Glory to You for Your bonds.

Glory to You for receiving the cut of the lash.

Glory to You for accepting mockery.

Glory to You for Your crucifixion.

Glory to You for Your burial.

Glory to You for Your resurrection.

Glory to You who were preached to men and women.

Glory to You in whom they believed.

Glory to You who were taken up into heaven.

Glory to You who sit in great glory at the Father's right hand.

Glory to You whose will it is that the sinner should be saved through Your great mercy and compassion.



Ephraem of Syria (ca. 306-373 AD)

4/22 Good Friday meditation

This meditation is found in email "forwards" and various places on the internet, including allworship.com newsletter:

At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to the death penalty.

At the time crucifixion was the "worst" death. Only the worst criminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus, unlike other criminals condemned to death by crucifixion Jesus was to be nailed to the cross by His hands and feet.

Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long.

The nails were driven into His wrist, not into His palms as is commonly portrayed. There is a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew that when the nails were being hammered into the wrist that tendon would tear and break; forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support himself so that He could breathe.

Both of His feet were nailed together. Thus, He was forced to support Himself on the single nail that impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could not support himself with His legs because of the pain, so He was forced to alternate between arching His back then using his legs just to continue to breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, and the courage.

Jesus endured this cruel reality for over 3 hours.

Yes, over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of suffering? A few minutes before He died, Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water from his wounds.

From common images we see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound to His side. But do we realize His wounds were actually made in his body? A hammer driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped and an even larger nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But before the nails and the spear wound, Jesus was whipped and beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The crown of thorns cut deeply into His scalp. Most men would not have survived this torture.

He had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from His wounds. The human adult body contains about 3.5 liters (just less than a gallon) of blood.

Jesus poured all 3.5 liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His members; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His side.

All these without mentioning the humiliation He suffered after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones. The cross was almost 30 kg of weight.[]

Jesus had to endure this experience, so that you can have free access to God.

So that your sins could be "washed" away. All of them with no exception! Do not ignore this.

JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU!

4/21 Maundy Thursday thoughts

"And when the hour was come, He sat down and the twelve apostles with Him."  "When the hour was come"  -- that was the most wonderful hour.  There never was an hour, never will be an hour like that hour.  What hour was it ?  It was an hour of the passing of creation under the blood.  It was an hour of destruction of demon power.  It was an hour appointed of life coming out of death.  It was an hour when all that ever lived came under a glorious covering of the blood.  It was an hour when all the world was coming into emancipation by the blood.  It was an hour in the world's history when it emerged from dark chaos, a wonderful hour!  Praise God for that hour!  Was it a dark hour?  It was a dark hour for Him, but a wonderful light dawned for us.  It was tremendously dark for the Son of Man, but praise God He came through it.
                   -- Smith Wigglesworth

4/20 Wednesday wisdom PASSOVER

It is written of Christ, "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness."  And in this new life in the Spirit, in this new covenant life, you love the things that are right and pure and holy, and shudder at all things that are wrong.  Jesus was able to say, "...the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me"  (John 14:30).  And the moment we are filled with the Spirit of God we are brought into like wonderful condition, and as we continue to be filled with the Spirit, the enemy cannot have an inch of territory in us.

         -- Smith Wigglesworth

4/19 Tuesday truth: PASSOVER

God has a million ways of undertaking for those who go to Him for help.  He has deliverance for every captive.  He loves you so much that He even says, "Before they call, I will answer."  Don't turn Him away.

    -- Smith Wigglesworth

4/18 Monday meditation

I see everything a failure except that which is done in the Spirit.  Just as you live in the Spirit, you move, act, eat, drink and do everything to the glory of God.  Our message is always this, "Be filled with the Spirit."  This is God's place for you, and it is as far above the natural life as the heavens are above the earth.  Yield yourselves for God to fill.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

4/15 Friday faith

There are evil powers, but Jesus is greater than all evil powers.  There are tremendous diseases, but Jesus is healer.  There is no case too hard for Him.  The Lion of Judah shall break every chain.  He came to relieve the oppressed and to set the captive free.  He came to bring redemption to make us as perfect as man was before the fall.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

4/14 Thursday thoughts

Satan is always endeavoring to bring the saints of God into disrepute, bringing against them railing accusations, but the Holy Ghost never comes with condemnation.  He always reveals the blood of Christ.  He always brings us help.  The Lord Jesus referred to Him as the Comforter who would come.  He is always on hand to help in the seasons of trial and test.  The Holy Ghost is the lifting power of the church of Christ.

--Smith Wigglesworth

4/13 Wednesday wisdom

God declared Himself more mighty than every opposing power when He cast out the powers of darkness from heaven. I want you to know that the same power that cast Satan out of heaven dwells in every man who is born of God. If you would realize this, you would reign in life . . . God wants you to be in a place of overcoming, and has put a force within you whereby you may defeat the devil. -- Smith Wigglesworth

4/12 Tuesday truth

We have a big God. We have a wonderful Jesus. We have a glorious Comfoter. God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil. Under His wings shalt thou trust. The Word of God is living and powerful and in its treasures you will find eternal life. If you dare trust this wonderful Lord, the Lord of life, you will find in Him everything you need. -- Smith Wigglesworth

4/11 Monday meditation

I am glad that Paul was a man. I am glad that Jesus was a Man. I am glad that Daniel was a man, and I am also glad that John was a man. You ask, "Why?" Because I see that whatever God has done for other men, He can do for me. And I find God has done such wonderful things for other men that I am always on the expectation that these things are possible for me. -- Smith Wigglesworth

4/8 Friday faith

What you need is to know the mind of God and the Word of God, and you will be so free you will never find a frown on your face, nor a tear in your eye. The more you know of the mightiness of revelation, the more does everything in the way of fearfulness pass away. To know God is to be in the place of triumph. To know God is to be in the place of rest. To know God is to be in the place of victory. -- Smith Wigglesworth

4/7 Thursday thoughts

God has something better for you than you have ever had in the past. Come out into all the fulness of faith and power and life and victory that He is willing to provide, as you forget the things of the past, and press right on for the prize of His calling in Christ Jesus. -- Smith Wigglesworth

4/6 Wednesday wisdom

As I look into the twelfth chapter of Acts, I find that the people were praying all night for Peter to come out of prison. They had a zeal but no faith. They were to be commended for their zeal in spending their time in prayer without ceasing, but there was one thing missing. It was faith. Rhoda had more faith than the rest of them. When the knock came to the door,she ran to it, and the moment she heard Peter's voice, she ran back again with joy saying that Peter stood before the gate. And all the people said, "You are mad. It isn't so." But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. But they had not faith, and conjectured, "Well, God has sent His angel." But Peter continued knocking. They had zeal but no faith. And I believe there is quite a difference. -- Smith Wigglesworth

4/5 Tuesday truth

When these men carried the palsied man, they pressed through until he could hear the voice of the Son of God, and liberty came to the captive. The man became strong by the power of God, arose, took up his bed, and went forth before them all. Oh, beloved, I have seen wonderful things like this wrought by the power of God. We must never think about our God on small lines. He spoke the word one day and made the world of things which did not appear. That is the kind of a God we have, and He is just the same today. There is no change in Him. Oh, He is lovely and precous above all thought and comparison. There is none like Him. -- Smith Wigglesworth

4/4 Monday meditation

It is an ideal thing to get people to believe, when they ask, that they shall receive; but how could it be otherwise? It must be so when God says it. -- Smith Wigglesworth