He has come into me in all His fulness.
He has come into me with all His completeness.
Now we can understand John 1:16: "Of his fulness have we all received, and grace upon grace."
The Limitless One has come into me to take me over.
He gave to me His ability, His completeness. . .
I have spiritual wisdom and understanding so that I may walk worthily of the Lord, unto all pleasing, bearing fruit unto every good work and continually increasing in this exact, this perfect knowledge of God. (Col. 1:9-13)
- E. W. Kenyon
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
The Ability of God 1/31 Tuesday truth
You remember that Jesus said to the disciples, "Tarry ye in Jerusalem until you receive power from on high." (Luke 24:49)
The word "power" comes from the Greek word "dunamis." Young translates this "ability," and it is a better word. They were to tarry in Jerusalem until they received the ability of God.
You not only received the Nature of God, but when the Spirit came into your life you had in you the ability of God, the very Resources of Heaven.
No one yet know the limit of that ability.
It must be exhaustless.
-- E. W. Kenyon
The word "power" comes from the Greek word "dunamis." Young translates this "ability," and it is a better word. They were to tarry in Jerusalem until they received the ability of God.
You not only received the Nature of God, but when the Spirit came into your life you had in you the ability of God, the very Resources of Heaven.
No one yet know the limit of that ability.
It must be exhaustless.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Abraham 1/30 Monday meditation
Abraham looked at his body and saw it exactly as it was, impotent, a worn out thing.
He looked at Sarah, another broken vessel. Yet looking unto the promise of God, he waxed strong. He counted that God could make good what He had promised.
Abraham moved into God's class. He counted the things that were not as though they were, and they became.
He counted his body to be as good as it was at the age of thirty-five years. He considered Sarah to be as young, and capable of bearing children.
He counted the thing that was not as though it was, and it became.
-- E. W. Kenyon
He looked at Sarah, another broken vessel. Yet looking unto the promise of God, he waxed strong. He counted that God could make good what He had promised.
Abraham moved into God's class. He counted the things that were not as though they were, and they became.
He counted his body to be as good as it was at the age of thirty-five years. He considered Sarah to be as young, and capable of bearing children.
He counted the thing that was not as though it was, and it became.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Thursday, January 26, 2012
All is Yours 1/27 Friday faith
Now just take this thing home to your heart and read Eph. 1:3, "Who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ."
You are blessed with everything that you need.
His very fullness is yours.
His ability is yours.
His love is yours.
Yes, He himself is yours!
-- E. W. Kenyon
You are blessed with everything that you need.
His very fullness is yours.
His ability is yours.
His love is yours.
Yes, He himself is yours!
-- E. W. Kenyon
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Master Over the Devil 1/26 Thursday thoughts
As Jesus was Master of the Devil, so am I in His Name.
I was raised together with Christ.
I have in me His resurrection ability, His resurrection life. I am a Master. (Read Eph. 1:17-23)
And that great, mighty Holy Spirit who has come to make His home in my body is guiding me into all the reality of the wealth that has been given to me in Christ.
He is making me know what the resurrection means to me; that if I were raised together with Christ, I am a Master of the forces that operated in slaying Jesus; that I am now taking Jesus' place in this earth walk.
I have a legal right to the use of His Name that has all authority.
I have a legal right to the ability of the Holy Spirit and I know it is God who is at work within me, willing and working His own good pleasure. I am not left to my own resources.
-- E. W. Kenyon
I was raised together with Christ.
I have in me His resurrection ability, His resurrection life. I am a Master. (Read Eph. 1:17-23)
And that great, mighty Holy Spirit who has come to make His home in my body is guiding me into all the reality of the wealth that has been given to me in Christ.
He is making me know what the resurrection means to me; that if I were raised together with Christ, I am a Master of the forces that operated in slaying Jesus; that I am now taking Jesus' place in this earth walk.
I have a legal right to the use of His Name that has all authority.
I have a legal right to the ability of the Holy Spirit and I know it is God who is at work within me, willing and working His own good pleasure. I am not left to my own resources.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Branch of the Vine 1/25 Wednesday wisdom
(continued from Tuesday):
If you dare say, "I am a branch of the vine, and the same life and love that flows in the vine flows in me," you will rise to the level of your confession.
If you say over and over again, "I know whatever I ask of the Father in Jesus' Name, He will give it to me," after a while that truth will permeate your consciousness until it becomes a literal, absolute fact in you.
Men and women will come to you for prayer. They have not learned the secret. They haven't any faith of their own. But they have faith in your faith, because you have learned the secret of confessing to be what God says you are.
That is all there is of it. . .
In other words, when you dare to say that you are what He says you are, then the two of you have agreed and you become a messenger of heaven, and you will be doing the works that Jesus said you should do in His Name.
-- E.W. Kenyon
If you dare say, "I am a branch of the vine, and the same life and love that flows in the vine flows in me," you will rise to the level of your confession.
If you say over and over again, "I know whatever I ask of the Father in Jesus' Name, He will give it to me," after a while that truth will permeate your consciousness until it becomes a literal, absolute fact in you.
Men and women will come to you for prayer. They have not learned the secret. They haven't any faith of their own. But they have faith in your faith, because you have learned the secret of confessing to be what God says you are.
That is all there is of it. . .
In other words, when you dare to say that you are what He says you are, then the two of you have agreed and you become a messenger of heaven, and you will be doing the works that Jesus said you should do in His Name.
-- E.W. Kenyon
Monday, January 23, 2012
Above Your Confession 1/24 Tuesday truth
"Confession" as used here is a statement of what you believe to be true (whether it be a negative confession or a positive confession), not to be confused with confession of sin.
You never rise above your confession. If you always confess your failings, your weakness, your lack of ability, your weakness and your lack of ability will rule you.
If you say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me," you will rise to the level of it.
You never enjoy anything beyond your confession. Your faith is never stronger than your confession.
--E. W. Kenyon
You never rise above your confession. If you always confess your failings, your weakness, your lack of ability, your weakness and your lack of ability will rule you.
If you say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me," you will rise to the level of it.
You never enjoy anything beyond your confession. Your faith is never stronger than your confession.
--E. W. Kenyon
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Act on the Word 1/23 Monday meditation
Don't try to believe, just act on the Word.
Don't have a double confession so that one moment you confess, "Yes, He heard my prayer. I am healed," or "I will get the money," and then begin to question how it is going to come and what you ought to do to get it.
Your latter confession destroys the first.
A wrong confession destroys prayer and destroys faith.
Don't trust in other people's faith -- have your own.
Do your own believing. Have your own faith as you have your own clothes. Act on the Word for yourself.
Don't talk doubt or unbelief.
Never admit that you are a "Doubting Thomas," that is an insult to your Father.
Don't talk about sickness and disease.
Never talk about failure. Talk about the Word, its absolute integrity, and of your utter confidence in it; of your ability to act on it; and hold fast to your confession of its truthfulness.
-- E.W. Kenyon
Don't have a double confession so that one moment you confess, "Yes, He heard my prayer. I am healed," or "I will get the money," and then begin to question how it is going to come and what you ought to do to get it.
Your latter confession destroys the first.
A wrong confession destroys prayer and destroys faith.
Don't trust in other people's faith -- have your own.
Do your own believing. Have your own faith as you have your own clothes. Act on the Word for yourself.
Don't talk doubt or unbelief.
Never admit that you are a "Doubting Thomas," that is an insult to your Father.
Don't talk about sickness and disease.
Never talk about failure. Talk about the Word, its absolute integrity, and of your utter confidence in it; of your ability to act on it; and hold fast to your confession of its truthfulness.
-- E.W. Kenyon
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Mental Assent 1/20 Friday faith
Another Enemy is Mental Assent.
You say, "What is it?" It is mentally accepting the Word as true, but not acting upon it.
It is admiring the Word.
You may have been called a Fundamentalist, and you may have confessed that you believe the Word from Genesis to Revelation; but when it comes to acting on it, you have never done it.
You are like one that knows all the ingredients that are in a certain dish that you have for dinner.
You are able to diagnose very feature about it. But you don't eat it. It does you no good.
The Mental Assenter is a failure, a beautiful failure, but a failure.
I say, "Is that Word true?" And you declare, "It is true. I believe every word from Genesis to Revelation." You are self-deceived.
The Believer is a "doer of the Word and not a hearer only."
Jesus described him in that last illustration of the Sermon on the Mount. The Doer was the one who dug deep, went down to the rock and built his house thereon. The Mental Assenter built on the sand.
-- E. W. Kenyon
You say, "What is it?" It is mentally accepting the Word as true, but not acting upon it.
It is admiring the Word.
You may have been called a Fundamentalist, and you may have confessed that you believe the Word from Genesis to Revelation; but when it comes to acting on it, you have never done it.
You are like one that knows all the ingredients that are in a certain dish that you have for dinner.
You are able to diagnose very feature about it. But you don't eat it. It does you no good.
The Mental Assenter is a failure, a beautiful failure, but a failure.
I say, "Is that Word true?" And you declare, "It is true. I believe every word from Genesis to Revelation." You are self-deceived.
The Believer is a "doer of the Word and not a hearer only."
Jesus described him in that last illustration of the Sermon on the Mount. The Doer was the one who dug deep, went down to the rock and built his house thereon. The Mental Assenter built on the sand.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Hope and Faith 1/19 Thursday thoughts
Hope is always future. Faith is always now.
Someone comes to me and asks me to pray for them, and I say, "Was the prayer answered?" And they answer, "I hope it was."
Then I know it will not be answered, and I frankly tell them. "No, the Hoper's prayers are seldom answered." . . .
The Hoper is always a failure. It is the Believer that is a success -- and believing, you remember, is acting on the Word.
-- E.W. Kenyon
Someone comes to me and asks me to pray for them, and I say, "Was the prayer answered?" And they answer, "I hope it was."
Then I know it will not be answered, and I frankly tell them. "No, the Hoper's prayers are seldom answered." . . .
The Hoper is always a failure. It is the Believer that is a success -- and believing, you remember, is acting on the Word.
-- E.W. Kenyon
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Prayer Life 1/18 Wednesday wisdom
Some have said that prayer is the greatest opportunity ever offered to a man in Christ.
If this is true then you can understand why there would be enemies to stand in the way of a prayer life.
You can understand why the Adversary would make it his business to see that the prayer life of an individual, and of a church, should be ineffective.
Satan would not be a good General, he would not be a Strategist unless the prayer life should be destroyed.
A church is as powerful as its prayer life.
The men and women who learn the secret of reaching the throne, getting the ear of God, become dangerous to the hosts of darkness.
-- E. W. Kenyon
If this is true then you can understand why there would be enemies to stand in the way of a prayer life.
You can understand why the Adversary would make it his business to see that the prayer life of an individual, and of a church, should be ineffective.
Satan would not be a good General, he would not be a Strategist unless the prayer life should be destroyed.
A church is as powerful as its prayer life.
The men and women who learn the secret of reaching the throne, getting the ear of God, become dangerous to the hosts of darkness.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Monday, January 16, 2012
Tuesday truth 1/17 Treating the Word As If It Were a Common Book
That's the title that E.W. Kenyon put on this passage. This is one of his most powerful quotes.
One of the most dangerous habits that Christians have is treating the Word as though it were a common book.
In one breath we will declare that we believe it to be a Revelation from God, and yet we turn to the arm of flesh for help when the Word has promised perfect deliverance.
We treat the fact of Redemption as though it were a beautiful fiction.
We read articles about the Word.
We sing hymns confessing it.
And yet we live under the dominion of the Adversary, continually confessing sickness, want, fear, weakness, and doubts in the face of this Revelation from God of our Redemption, of the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ, and the fact that He is seated now at the right hand of God having finished a work that perfectly satisfies the demands of Justice and meet the needs of humanity.
We read about it. We talk about it.
And then we act as though it were but a fable!
This is the reason why the church has more sickness and disease than any other organized body of people; why faith is weak; why the average believer is ruled by the Adversary.
All this could be changed if we would give the Word the place we would give Christ if He were here physically in our presence.
One of the most dangerous habits that Christians have is treating the Word as though it were a common book.
In one breath we will declare that we believe it to be a Revelation from God, and yet we turn to the arm of flesh for help when the Word has promised perfect deliverance.
We treat the fact of Redemption as though it were a beautiful fiction.
We read articles about the Word.
We sing hymns confessing it.
And yet we live under the dominion of the Adversary, continually confessing sickness, want, fear, weakness, and doubts in the face of this Revelation from God of our Redemption, of the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ, and the fact that He is seated now at the right hand of God having finished a work that perfectly satisfies the demands of Justice and meet the needs of humanity.
We read about it. We talk about it.
And then we act as though it were but a fable!
This is the reason why the church has more sickness and disease than any other organized body of people; why faith is weak; why the average believer is ruled by the Adversary.
All this could be changed if we would give the Word the place we would give Christ if He were here physically in our presence.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
If we say . . . 1/16 Monday meditation
If we say over and over again to our hearts: "I am a partaker of God's very nature. I have in me His faith nature. This makes me a child of faith. I have been begotten of the Living Word through the Holy Spirit. The real me was recreated in Christ. I have the very nature of the Father and the Father is love, so I have in me the love nature of the Father," if we meditate on this, we will no longer be "double-minded men."
Repeat it over and over again.
Hold it as a constant affirmation before your mind that you are what He says you are; that you are a partaker of His very nature as He has declared.
And you remember that "greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world." That Greater One is the Holy Spirit.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Repeat it over and over again.
Hold it as a constant affirmation before your mind that you are what He says you are; that you are a partaker of His very nature as He has declared.
And you remember that "greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world." That Greater One is the Holy Spirit.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Faith Partner 1/13 Friday faith
Everyone of you should hunt for a partner who can believe with you, who can unite his faith with yours.
You become a resistless power the moment you do.
You may be mighty in faith alone, but you can be mightier in faith united with another.
-- E.W. Kenyon
You become a resistless power the moment you do.
You may be mighty in faith alone, but you can be mightier in faith united with another.
-- E.W. Kenyon
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
I Stand Complete 1/12 Thursday thoughts
The Word is mine. The Holy Spirit is mine. Jesus is mine. God is my own Father. Their Righteousness is my Righteousness. I stand complete in their completeness.
I am a New Creation, created in Christ Jesus. All the rights and privileges of a child are mine. I did not have to ask for them. They were conferred upon me. When I became His child, these things were a part of the New Creation so I enter into my rights.
One of the greatest blessings, one of the most wonderful facts is that Satan was defeated for me.
Jesus' victory over him is my victory.
-- E.W. Kenyon
I am a New Creation, created in Christ Jesus. All the rights and privileges of a child are mine. I did not have to ask for them. They were conferred upon me. When I became His child, these things were a part of the New Creation so I enter into my rights.
One of the greatest blessings, one of the most wonderful facts is that Satan was defeated for me.
Jesus' victory over him is my victory.
-- E.W. Kenyon
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The Holy Spirit Belongs to You 1/11 Wed. wisdom
The Holy Spirit belongs to you.
Luke 11:13: "How much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?" Only sons and daughters will ever ask Him.
You are His child. You have received His very nature. You are as really His child as was Jesus when He walked in Galilee.
Then you have a right to the Spirit. You can ask Him to come in and make His home in your body; as surely as you ask Him, so surely will He come in, because "No Word from God is void of an answer."
-- E. W. Kenyon
Luke 11:13: "How much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?" Only sons and daughters will ever ask Him.
You are His child. You have received His very nature. You are as really His child as was Jesus when He walked in Galilee.
Then you have a right to the Spirit. You can ask Him to come in and make His home in your body; as surely as you ask Him, so surely will He come in, because "No Word from God is void of an answer."
-- E. W. Kenyon
Monday, January 9, 2012
A Neutralizing Force in the Church 1/10 Tuesday truth
Every man and woman in connection with our church who is not spending time in prayer will be a neutralizing force in the church.
They may be in the choir; they may be in the Sunday School; they may have care of the finances; they may act as deacons or elders; but whatever their place, they carry a certain coldness, they are an inert body.
They have the tendency to lower the spiritual temperature of everyone in close contact with them.
So it is vitally important that the largest possible number of the membership should be led into the Prayer Program of the church.
This isn't any place for theory.
This is the place for positive facts.
A church can't be built up spiritually without prayer.
Numbers can be drawn through personal work or by eloquence, but to build up a real spiritual body, it is only possible through prayer.
-- E. W. Kenyon
They may be in the choir; they may be in the Sunday School; they may have care of the finances; they may act as deacons or elders; but whatever their place, they carry a certain coldness, they are an inert body.
They have the tendency to lower the spiritual temperature of everyone in close contact with them.
So it is vitally important that the largest possible number of the membership should be led into the Prayer Program of the church.
This isn't any place for theory.
This is the place for positive facts.
A church can't be built up spiritually without prayer.
Numbers can be drawn through personal work or by eloquence, but to build up a real spiritual body, it is only possible through prayer.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Under Our Feet 1/9 Monday meditation
(Ephesians 1:22) "And he put all things in subjection under his feet, and he gave him to be head over all things for the benefit of the Church."
We are His body -- then all these malign and wicked influences are beneath our feet.
We are masters of them all.
He did not defeat them for Himself. He defeated them for us.
He did not fight that battle for His glory, but for our good. . .
Jesus redeemed us, defeated our enemy and put him beneath our feet.
When will the heart take it in?
-- E. W. Kenyon
Just how passionate for Jesus do we want to be? You and I are the ones who set those limits, not God. (from another devotional I read today)
We are His body -- then all these malign and wicked influences are beneath our feet.
We are masters of them all.
He did not defeat them for Himself. He defeated them for us.
He did not fight that battle for His glory, but for our good. . .
Jesus redeemed us, defeated our enemy and put him beneath our feet.
When will the heart take it in?
-- E. W. Kenyon
Just how passionate for Jesus do we want to be? You and I are the ones who set those limits, not God. (from another devotional I read today)
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Restoring Fellowship 1/6 Friday faith
He is always Righteous. He can always plead our case.
The instant we ask the Father's forgiveness, Jesus takes up our case before the Father and our fellowship is restored.
There is no need of walking in broken fellowship a minute after you have committed sin.
The Devil is the author of that sin.
Then to walk on in broken fellowship, grieving over your blunder, is only adding joy and glory to the Devil.
The instant you have done wrong and your fellowship is impaired, ask the Father's forgiveness and go on in fellowship with Him. 1 John:1:9, 2:1-2.
Restoring fellowship is restoring joy, restoring power with God.
The richer the fellowship, the deeper one gets into the Word.
Deep, rich fellowship means that we go far below the surface in this mine of wealth.
You cannot walk in love without fellowship.
To walk in love is to walk in fellowship.
-- E.W. Kenyon
The instant we ask the Father's forgiveness, Jesus takes up our case before the Father and our fellowship is restored.
There is no need of walking in broken fellowship a minute after you have committed sin.
The Devil is the author of that sin.
Then to walk on in broken fellowship, grieving over your blunder, is only adding joy and glory to the Devil.
The instant you have done wrong and your fellowship is impaired, ask the Father's forgiveness and go on in fellowship with Him. 1 John:1:9, 2:1-2.
Restoring fellowship is restoring joy, restoring power with God.
The richer the fellowship, the deeper one gets into the Word.
Deep, rich fellowship means that we go far below the surface in this mine of wealth.
You cannot walk in love without fellowship.
To walk in love is to walk in fellowship.
-- E.W. Kenyon
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Lost Fellowship 1/5 Thursday thoughts
All low grade faith comes from a low grade of fellowship.
Most Christians have lost their fellowship and are putting duty in the place of it.
They are like a husband and wife whose fellowship has been broken.
The husband brings home presents that only bring tears to the eyes of his wife.
She does not want the presents. She wants fellowship restored.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Most Christians have lost their fellowship and are putting duty in the place of it.
They are like a husband and wife whose fellowship has been broken.
The husband brings home presents that only bring tears to the eyes of his wife.
She does not want the presents. She wants fellowship restored.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
He and I working together 1/4 Wed. wisdom
Why, prayer just becomes a means of communication between He and I. It is not a slavish duty. It is not a difficult task. It is not hard work.
He and I are working together.
-- E.W. Kenyon (grammatical errors are his!)
He and I are working together.
-- E.W. Kenyon (grammatical errors are his!)
Monday, January 2, 2012
"Greater is He..." 1/3 Tuesday truth
Jesus in you is Authority over demoniacal forces and over the laws of nature.
We may know our ability. We may know that we have authority over all the demoniacal forces.
"In my name ye shall cast out demons."
"Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world."
These are facts. We know them. We are not afraid to face life with the consciousness of victors.
In the morning you take stock. You say, "He and I are going together. I have access to His ability, His wisdom, His love, His grace, His strength to meet every issue that confronts me. I shall have physical strength for every need today. I shall have wisdom to meet every issue. I shall have love no matter what the provocation may be."
You see, when you walk like this, your prayer life becomes a realistic thing.
-- E.W. Kenyon
We may know our ability. We may know that we have authority over all the demoniacal forces.
"In my name ye shall cast out demons."
"Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world."
These are facts. We know them. We are not afraid to face life with the consciousness of victors.
In the morning you take stock. You say, "He and I are going together. I have access to His ability, His wisdom, His love, His grace, His strength to meet every issue that confronts me. I shall have physical strength for every need today. I shall have wisdom to meet every issue. I shall have love no matter what the provocation may be."
You see, when you walk like this, your prayer life becomes a realistic thing.
-- E.W. Kenyon
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Faith in His Word 1/2 Monday meditation
The Father's Word in Jesus' lips accomplished things. It hushed the sea. It quieted the wind. It raised the dead. It fed multitudes.
His Living Word in lips of faith will do the same today.
When you know that the Word is God speaking, you will speak the Word with authority.
You remember that Faith in God is faith in His Word.
You want to build your Faith? Feed on the Word; act upon it.
You remember Matt. 4:4: "Man shall not live by bread along, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." You can't build faith and feed on any other kind of food.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Wishing you a new year filled with the Word of God and with knowledge of the power of that Word!
His Living Word in lips of faith will do the same today.
When you know that the Word is God speaking, you will speak the Word with authority.
You remember that Faith in God is faith in His Word.
You want to build your Faith? Feed on the Word; act upon it.
You remember Matt. 4:4: "Man shall not live by bread along, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." You can't build faith and feed on any other kind of food.
-- E. W. Kenyon
Wishing you a new year filled with the Word of God and with knowledge of the power of that Word!
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