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