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