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