Confidence in Him 3/1 Friday Faith

Received this thank-you from a regular reader. I am always encouraged to hear that this "hobby" is ministering to someone.


Just want to let you know that your daily posting the last week and a half has been a timely blessing, one of my employees shared with me two weeks ago that preliminary test showed he has pancreatic cancer, this week it was confirmed, each day I copied your posting gave it to him we would go over it here at work and he would take it home for he and his wife woud do the same, he told me that it was very helpful for he and his family, His wife today sent me a nice card thanking me for the scripture.


"And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He heareth us; and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." Praise God! That is a big bank note for us today of priceless value. This check is unlimited. I can put them in to the extent of heaven's fulness, if only I have the faith to do it. How rich this makes me feel! I may ask whatever I will, but, oh, how sweet to realize that as we abide in Him, we desire only His will, and that we are not in the least danger of asking anything that He would not like to give us.

-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

That Ye May Know 2/28 Thursday Thoughts

 "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." That ye may know, not think so, with some degree of certainty, not guess so, or hope so, but that ye may know that ye have eternal life. How many here know this beyond the possibility of a doubt? You may all know today by believing God's record of His Son. And when we are assured of our salvation, we get confidence and power in prayer.



-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Testify to Healing 2/27 Wednesday Wisdom

If people are not willing to testify to the healing power of the Great Physician, they are very apt to lose their health again. Also, I would warn you not to wait for certain feelings or emotions before you testify to the work which God has wrought in your heart or in your body. "Faith is the evidence of things not seen," and if we really believe God's Word we shall not be afraid to stand upon it, and to tell all the world of its truth.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

If Jesus healed . . . 2/26 Tuesday Truth

If Jesus healed those people who came to Him in such multitudes, in order to fulfill the prophecy in Isaiah that He had borne their sicknesses, then He will heal me because He has also borne my sicknesses, for He is no respecter of persons. I have to believe the record and to say in faith, "Since Jesus bore my sicknesses on the Cross of Calvary, therefore I need not bear them, and I am healed.": You will find that all of God's gifts are given to faith, and only to faith, and it is only as you realize that they are already yours through Jesus Christ that you can have them at all.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Resist 2/25 Monday Meditation

Resist the devil with his doubts and discouraging suggestions. Don't parley with him. Resist him when you hear his first word, and the Spirit of the Lord shall raise up a standard against him. I believe this is often why we lose the victory. After taking our stand of faith and receiving the promise in Christ's name, we dare to listen to Satan's insinuations. Resist, resist him, and he shall flee.




-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Turn Your Gaze 2/22 Friday Faith

One regular reader emailed me that reading these quotes daily should earn you CEU's (continuing education units) in Word of Faith theology.


The enemy knows that we shall be "more than conquerors" over every situation or trial if we thus keep our gaze turned away from the seen things to the unseen, so when we have started on this life of faith he will use all his arts to make us look at the temporal things instead of the eternal. He will seek to make the temporal things seem the real, when, in fact, the eternal and unseen things of God are the real, and the things we see are as passing shadows.



-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Garment of Praise 2/21 Thursday Thoughts

How shall we be strong, dear ones, unless we are anointed with the "oil of gladness?" If we keep our eyes off from ourselves and from our circumstances and look at our merciful, loving Lord, we shall surely be clothed from head to foot with the garment of praise, and He shall be glorified.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Circumstances May Be Bad 2/20 Wednesday Wisdom

Circumstances may not be encouraging at the moment, and all may seem dark around us, but the fact still remains "that the Lord is good," and that "His mercy is everlasting." As we continue to wait upon Him with thanksgiving and supplication, He will reveal His enduring goodness and mercy in our lives. No matter how you feel, remember that a fitting approach to [Him] is praise.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

In Better Business 2/19 Tuesday Truth

If we are praising the Lord continually and talking about His wondrous works, we shall not be criticizing our neighbor, or blaming some one, or grumbling about circumstances, because our tongues will be in better business. . . This is such an easy way of glorifying our Lord and Master, shall we not praise Him more and more?


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Be Not Afraid 2/18 Monday Meditation

Carrie Judd Montgomery


Dr. Simpson was greatly used of God to thrust me out more fully into public service, that is, especially the platform work, although God had already made real use of my pen,” wrote Carrie Judd Montgomery (1858–1946) when remembering how A. B. Simpson had encouraged her ministry, especially in the early days. Their collaboration provides an inspirational picture of how a Christ-centered friendship can influence generations. ~~Written By: Jennifer A. Miskov, from her newly-published biography of Montgomery


Now you are thinking of some great trouble in your life, and you are saying, 'Oh, Lord, I have no might.' Yes God knows that. 'Neither know we what to do.' Yes, God knows your helplessness, but will you not ... get your eyes off from circumstances, and get them upon God? Can you say, 'Our eyes are upon Thee?' Not upon circumstances, or this great company, but upon Thee. Then comes the answer from the Lord, 'Be not afraid: the battle is not yours, but God's.'

-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Shake Things Up 2/15 Friday Faith

Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them. And that praise of faith went straight up to glory, and entered into the ears of the Lord, and He sent a great earthquake . . . I believe they might have prayed all night without having much of an earthquake, but when they took the attitude of deliverance and victory and began to praise the Lord, then came the great earthquake which set them all free. Beloved, if in the time of your greatest trial you take the attitude of victory and praise the Lord for deliverance before you see it, God will send some kind of an earthquake. He will shake things up, and will do something marvelous for you.




-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Sacrifice of Praise 2/14 Thursday Thoughts

Now, when is it time to praise? Oh, you say, when everything is going right, and getting into shape, and the troubles of life are vanishing away, then is the time to praise. Ah, praise comes easy then, but the time to glorify God the most by praise is when it is the sacrifice of praise. Not the praise which comes from seeing all things look right, but the praise which comes from simple faith in Jesus, even before the dark clouds have rolled away. Praise at such times is called "the sacrifice of thanksgiving," because it is a real sacrifice.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Complaining Spirit 2/13 Wednesday Wisdom

Now, beloved, if we have had a murmuring, complaining spirit, let us beware. Let us remember the judgments which the Lord was compelled to send up on the Israelites when they murmured, and let us give that complaining spirit over to Jesus today that He may deliver us from it, and fill our hearts and mouths with His praise.


--Carrie Judd Montgomery

Your Strength 2/12 Tuesday Truth

Nearly all of us here are probably serving the Lord, but are we serving Him with that joy and gladness which He requires? Are we joyful in all our service for the King, or do we let something prey upon our joy, thus taking away the secret source of divine strength? For the Word says, "The joy of the Lord is your strength."




-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

So Much Spoil 2/11 Monday Meditation

The twenty-fifth verse tell us that "They were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much." Beloved, God never lets a battle or a trial come into our lives but there are spoils with it. Never a real time of trial of faith but there are great riches at the end. Instead of being impoverished by them, we get richer by every trial in which our faith shines out clearly and sings praises.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Begin to Praise 2/8 Friday Faith

God had told them they needed not to fight in that battle. They stood on His promise, and began to praise Him. As soon as you will do that, just so soon your enemies will begin to devour each other, one trouble eating up another trouble, until there is nothing left.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Once In A While 2/7 Thursday Thoughts

Once in a while, and just as often as we can bear it, God comes into our souls with overpowering grace, saying, "Come aside and rest awhile, come into the Mount of Transfiguration with Me, the world shut out, and behold My glory." And the patient Jesus who has been with us all the long and weary day, bearing our burdens and answering our prayers, stands transfigured before us, the heavenly Bridegroom of our souls, and we have naught to do but feast on His divine love.




-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Let Go! 2/6 Wednesday Wisdom

"Believe," "Only Believe." Some of you tell me you are so sick of hearing that word, "believe." You don't know how to believe. You don't understand what Christian teachers mean by faith, and you wish they would get some easier word. Well, I will give you an easier one, "Let go." It means just the same thing. Can you understand "Let go?" Drop into the mother arms of God, that are always outstretched to take you. As the eagle mother spreads her broad pinions below the nest to catch the young eaglets as they drop out and try to fly, so the wideness of God's mercy is pledged to catch you up, and to hold you, and keep you whenever you will let go of all these other things you are holding on to, and will trust Him alone and entirely.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

When God Gives Us ... 2/5 Tuesday Truth

When God gives us in these days such a command as that, to stand still and see His salvation, we do not always bow our heads in worship. Some of us are apt to talk back to Him. We say, "Surely, Lord, this thing and that thing can't take care of itself; I must worry it through somehow. We feel as though we are very necessary and nothing is going to be done if we keep still. Of course, things can't take care of themselves, but if you will only cast the care on Him, He will take care of them and of you, too.


-- Carrie Judd Montgomery

Your Redeemer Is Strong 2/4 Monday Meditation

I'm going to switch for a while to quotes by Carrie Judd Montgomery since I am reading an ebook of her sermons. Carrie Judd Montgomery was a legendary pioneer evangelist and healer in The Christian and Missionary Alliance and The Assemblies of God. Her sermons were published by C&MA founder A.B. Simpson.




Is the enemy encamped all round about you, leaving no loophole of escape from trouble? Lift your heads and rejoice! Your Redeemer is strong. You are weak, 'tis true, but what of that? Ye shall not need to fight in this battle. "Fear not; be not dismayed." Some of you have been fighting your own battles all the week instead of trusting them to Jehovah. Will you not yield the struggle and trust?" "For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength."