Thursday thoughts 12/1 What Prayer Can Mean

Now we can see what prayer can mean.


It isn't the old idea of getting on our knees and crying and begging.

It is a son coming into the Father's Presence for one of our brethren who has been injured, or for one who for some reason cannot come and make his appeal personally. We come on his behalf and ask for a blessing.

Or it may be that we are taking up the need of the great unsaved world.

We stand there in fulness of Fellowship and fulness of Joy to get a portion for another.

This is entering by the New and Living Way.

This is coming boldly to the Throne of Grace.

This is fellowshipping the Father.

This is visiting with Him.

It is not coming into His Presence as the Jews came into the presence of Jehovah, or as a sinner would approach, but we are coming as sons and daughters.

We are taking our place.



-- E. W. Kenyon

Sons Visiting their Father: Wednesday wisdom

Few of us have realized the fact that the Father's heart is hungry for the companionship of His children. His heart hunger is the reason for man and the reason for redemption, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son."




That love impels Him to call us to Prayer.



That call is the proof of our ability to stand in His presence. It is the proof of His making us righteous enough to stand in His presence without reproof or condemnation.



It means that we are ever welcome to the Throne Room.



How few of us have ever realized this.



Is is sons visiting their Father.



It is children coming joyously into the presence of a Loving Parent.



-- E.W. Kenyon (continued tomorrow)

One Hundred Preachers: Tuesday truth

Just got back from Thanksgiving vacation at our son's in Kansas. Wasn't planning to post a quote tonight, but I'm going to cheat and borrow one from a follower in my "Lep's Faith Quotes" Facebook group:


Gina Seitz Gibbs

‎"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth."

~ John Wesley

You can't be conquered. 11/24 Thanksgiving Thoughts

You can't be conquered.
Your spirit is whispering, "Nay, in all these things I am more than a conqueror."
Every disease is of the Adversary.
All kinds of sin are of the Adversary.
All opposition to the glad tidings is of the Adversary.
God and I are victors.
Grater is He that is in me that this opposition or this disease.
There is no need that is greater than my Lord.
There is no lack that He cannot meet.
This indomitable will that God has wrought in you cannot be overwhelmed, or conquered.
You remember what you are -- your are a New Creation.
You are a branch of the vine.
You are an heir of God. 

          -- E.W. Kenyon

Build Your Own Faith Life 11/23 Wed. wisdom

This quote immediately follows yesterday's quote in E.W. Kenyon's In His Presence:



Here are some facts that will help you to begin to build your own faith life.



The Word is yours. It is as though there was no other person in the world but you, and this revelation had been given especially for you; you can say, "It is mine. No one has a better right to it than I have. Every promise is mine. Every statement of fact is mine."



When He said, "Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you," you can say, "He was talking to me.



"He is my Father; I am His child. This is His message to me, to help me in my earth walk."

Your Own Faith 11/22 Tuesday truth

It is vitally important to you that you have your own faith to fall back on in these hard places.

Everyone should hold his own faith life.

I find that the majority of people float on carelessly until they come to a dangerous place.  They are sick, or some loved one is sick, some financial or heart problem confronts them that may affect their entire future.  Then they frantically hunt for someone who can cry and sob and quote scriptures in what they call their "prayer" and it is of no avail because there is no faith back of it.

If there was faith there, there would be no crying and no sobbing.  There would be a rejoicing because they would know that whatever they ask of the Father in Jesus' Name, He will do it.

          -- E.W. Kenyon

You talk . . . 11/21 Monday meditation

You talk of your doubts and your fears, and you destroy your faith.




You talk of the ability of the Father that is yours, and fill your lips with praise for answers to prayers that you have asked. The reaction upon the heart is tremendous: Faith grows by leaps and bounds.



You talk about your trials and your difficulties, of your lack of faith, of your lack of money, and faith shrivels, loses its virility.

Your whole spirit life shrinks.



You study about what you are in Christ and then confess it boldly.



You dare to act on the Word in the face of sense knowledge opposition.



Regardless of appearance, you take your stand; make your confession and hold fast to it in the face of apparent impossibilities.



You see, faith doesn't ask for possible things. Faith is demanding the impossible.



Prayer is never for the possible, but always for the thing that is out of reason.



-- E. W. Kenyon

Prayer Life 11/18 Friday faith

According to reports, no one in the large church that E.W. Kenyon pastored died of disease in the 25 or so years that he was pastor.  There was a faith level that resulted in divine healing and divine health. 

Preaching and personal work are God-honored and blessed vocations or ministries, but prayer is the foundation of it all.

A man might preach with the eloquence of a Beecher and be the most skilled of diplomats as a soul winner, but he will fall short of his ministry in both fields if he isn't backed up by the prayer life.

The failure of all Christian enterprises is a prayer failure.

Prayer alone gives success.

           -- E. W. Kenyon

A Call to Prayer 11/17 Thurs. thoughts

If you don't take time to pray, you are losing out.
You can't say that you have no responsibility in the prayer life, for you have.
To see a need is to have a call to prayer.
There are people who will be utterly lost unless you take your place.
Unless you do you part, men will cry against you through eternity.
You can't plead that you have too much work to do.  You can pray while you work.
You can't put up the plea that you do not know how; you can learn if you wish.
For you to disobey the prayer call is for you to disobey the call of your Father.
The prayer responsibility today is the most important thing of our lives.

          -- E.W. Kenyon

No Unused Members 11/16 Wed. wisdom

Everyone of us has a place in the prayer life.
God has no unused members.
There isn't a useless member in the physical body; neither is there in the spiritual body of Christ.
God has planned with divine wisdom, the body of Christ; and the moment that you are born into that body, you have your place in which to function.
If any one thinks that because of lack of training or for lack of this or that, he hasn't a place, he is deluded by the enemy.
You have a place.
With that place comes responsibility, and with responsibility comes a reward or demerit.
If you do not take your place in the Family of God, in the Church, and begin to function, the body of Christ is weakened because of it.

      -- E. W. Kenyon

He is with us. 11/15 Tuesday truth

Continuing to quote from E.W. Kenyon for a while.  The unique thing about Kenyon's books is that he usually writes each sentence as a separate paragraph, and each sentence could stand by itself as worthy of dozens of pages of discussion.

He is with us in the Word, that living Word.
He is with us in His Name.
He is with us in the presence of the Holy Spirit.
We join forces with Him in this prayer life.
That "all authority" was given to Him as the head of the Church, and it is for the Church to use.
The authority that is in His Name is in your lips.  You let that authority loose.  You give it liberty and it blesses men.

He has made us Sons.
He has given us the Name.
He has given us the Holy Spirit.
He has restored all that Adam lost and more.

             -- E. W. Kenyon,  In His Presence

E.W. Kenyon 11/14 Monday meditation

My prayer and ministry partner keeps telling me that I need to get back to quoting Kenyon and Lake again. But I'm only halfway through the 850-page Wigglesworth book !! :(







So I pulled out one of my Kenyon books and found that I'd never finished reading and quoting from it. He is a little hard to quote concisely, so I may not find many quotes.






E.W. Kenyon (1867-1948) was an early Pentecostal pioneer who is considered the father of the Word of Faith movement, long before Hagin and Copeland gave the doctrine a name and made it famous.




Faith is developed in the human spirit by the Word of God. It comes by acting on the Word.



That is your exercise. Every time you act upon the Word, faith becomes stronger. You could lie in bed until your limbs lose their ability to bear the rest of your body. So it is with faith, it must be continually exercised in order to develop it.

-- E. W. Kenyon

An Overflowing Cup 11/11 Friday faith

The man cried, "... Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean" (Matthew 8:2).  Was Jesus willing?  You will never find Jesus missing an opportunity of doing good.  You will find that He is always more willing to work than we are to give Him an opportunity to work.  The trouble is, we do not come to Him, we do not ask Him for what He is more than willing to give.   
. . . If you are definite with Him, you will never go away disappointed. . . This Jesus is just the same today, and He says to you, "I will; be thou clean."  He has an overflowing cup for thee, a fulness of life.  He will meet you in your absolute helplessness.  All things are possible if you will only believe.

     -- Smith Wigglesworth

A Wigglesworth Story 11/10 Thurs. thoughts

A woman came to me in the city of Liverpool and said, "I would like you to help me. I wish you would join me in prayer. My husband is a drunkard and every night comes into the home under the influence of drink. Won't you join me in prayer for him?" I said to the woman, "Have you a handkerchief?" She took out a handkerchief and I prayed over it and told het to lay it on the pillow of the drunken man. He came home that night and laid his head on the pillow in which this handkerchief was tucked. He laid his head on more than the pillow that night. He laid his head on the promise of God. In Mark 11:24, we read: . . . What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.




The next morning the man got up and called at the first saloon that he had to pass on his way to work and ordered some beer. He tasted it and said to the bartender, "You have put some poison in this beer." He could not drink it, and went on to the next saloon and ordered some more beer. (This occurs a total of five times before and after work.) . . . He went to his home and told his wife what had happened and said, "It seems as though all the fellows have agreed to poison me." His wife said to him, "Can't you see the hand of the Lord in this, that He is making you dislike the stuff that has been your ruin?" This word brought conviction to the man's heart and he came to the meeting and got saved. The Lord has still power to set the captives free.



-- Smith Wigglesworth

Being Born of God 11/9 Wed. wisdom

"Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." What is the outcome of being born of God? God's life, God's truth, God's walk, God's communion, fellowship, oneness, like-mindedness. All that pertaineth to holiness, righteousness and truth comes forth out of this new birth unto righteousness. And in it, through it, and by it we have a perfect regenerated position just as we have come into light through this.


-- Smith Wiggleworth

So Built Up 11/8 Tuesday truth

God wants us all to be so built up in truth, righteousness, and the life of God that every person we come in contact with may know of a truth that we are of God.  And we who are of God can assure our hearts before Him, and we can have perfect confidence.

          -- Smith Wigglesworth

Wanting God! 11/7 Monday meditation

Wanting God! Wanting fellowship in the Spirit! Wanting the walk with Him! Wanting communion with Him! Everything else is no good. You want the association with God, and God says, "I will come and walk with you. I will sup with you and you with Me, and I will live in you." A joyful hallelujah! Attaining to a spiritual majority, a fulness of Christ, a place where God becomes the perfect Father and the Holy Ghost has a rightful place now as never before.




-- Smith Wigglesworth

Bride and Bridegroom 11/4 Friday faith

"As He is, so are we in this world."  What a word!  Who dare believe it?  God only can take up on to such heights and depths and lengths and breadths in the Spirit.  Brother, sister, are you prepared to go all the way?  Are you willing for heights and depths and lengths and breadths?  Are you willing for your heart to have only one attraction?  Are you willing to have only one lover?  Are you willing for Him to become the very perfect Bridegroom?  For I understand the more bride-like we are, the more we love to hear the Bridegroom's voice, and the less bride-like we are, the less we long to His Word.  If you cannot rest without it, if it becomes your meat day and night, if you eat and drink of it, His life will be in you and when He appears you will go.  Help us, Jesus!

        -- Smith Wigglesworth

The Future 11/3 Thursday thoughts

The future is what you are today.   The future is not what you are going to be tomorrow.  This is the day when God makes the future possible.  When God can get something through you today, tomorrow is filled with further illumination of God's possibility for you.

             -- Smith Wigglesworth

A Quenchless Thirst 11/2 Wed. wisdom

God, just come and make me so that there is not a possibility for me to ever be satisfied but to have  a quenchless thirst for the living God!  And then I shall not be overtaken.  Then I shall be ready.  Then I shall have eyes which beam, filled with the extremity of delight looking at the Master.

        -- Smith Wigglesworth