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.  
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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