God's Pure Gold 7/1 Tuesday Truth

...when you think that all things are dried up, when you think there is no hope for you, and you have passed everything, then that is the time that God makes the man, when tried by fire that God purges you, takes the dross away and brings forth the pure gold.  Only melted gold is minted.  Only moistened clay receives the mold.  Only soft wax receives the seal.  Only broken, contrite hearts receive the mark as the potter turns us on his wheel, shaped and burnt to take and keep the heavenly mold, the stamp of God's pure gold.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Hard Times 6/30 Monday Meditation

Beloved, if you read the Scriptures you will never find anything about the easy time.  All the glories came out of hard times.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

Every Day Forward 6/27 Friday Faith

It seems that I've quoted this before.  Perhaps he used it in an earlier sermon.  It is definitely a favorite.

Don't forget that every day must be a day of advancement.  If you have not made any advancement since yesterday, in a measure you are a backslider.  There is only one way for you between Calvary and the glory, and it is forward.  It is every day forward.  It is no day back.  it is advancement with God.  It is cooperation with Him in the Spirit.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

You Cannot Have... 6/26 Thursday Thoughts

You cannot have the Holy Ghost without having revelations.  You cannot have the Holy Ghost without being turned into another nature.  It was the only credentials by which Joshua and Caleb could enter the land because they were of another spirit.
And we must live in an unction, in a power, in a transformation, and a divine attainment where we cease to be, where God becomes enthroned so richly.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Begotten Again 6/25 Wednesday Wisdom

It took nine months to bring us forth into the world after we were conceived, but it only takes one moment to beget us as sons.  The first formation was a long period of nine months.  The second formation is a moment, is an act, is a faith, for "He that believeth hath."  And as you receive Him, you are begotten, not made.
Oh, the fact that I am begotten again, wonderful!  Begotten of the same seed that begot Him.  Remember, as He was conceived in the womb by the Holy Ghost, so we were conceived the moment we believed.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Wonderful Treasures 6/24 Tuesday Truth

You know, beloved, that there are many wonderful treasures in the storehouse of God that we have not yet gotten.  But praise God, we have the promise in Corinthians:  "...Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."  (1 Corinthians 2:9)

-- Smith Wigglesworth

The Hardest Way 6/23 Monday Meditation

The hardest way is the best way; you never hear anything about the person who is always having an easy time.  The preachers always tell of how Moses crossed the Red Sea when he was at wit's end.  I cannot find the record of anyone in the Scriptures whom God used who was not first tired.  So if you never have any trials it is because you are not worth them.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Personal Pentecost 6/20 Friday Faith

There is nothing like Pentecost, and if you have never been baptized [in the Holy Spirit] you are making a big mistake by waiting.  Don't you know that the only purpose for which God saved you was that you might be a saviour of others?  And for you to think that you have to remain stationary and just get to heaven is a great mistake.  The baptism is to make you a witness for Jesus.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
 

Quickened By His Spirit 6/18 Wednesday Wisdom

The other day we were going through a very thickly populated part of San Francisco when we noticed a large crowd gathered.  I saw it from the window of the car and said I had to get out, which I did. there in the midst was a boy in the agonies of death.  As I threw my arms around the boy I asked what the trouble was and he answered that he had cramps.  In the name of Jesus I commanded the devils to come out of him and at once he jumped up and not even taking time to thank me, ran off perfectly healed.  We are God's own children, quickened by His Spirit and He has given us power over all the powers of darkness; Christ in us the open evidence of eternal glory, Christ in us the life, the truth, and the way.

-- Smith Wigglesworth
 

We Have the Remedy 6/17 Tuesday Truth

But Jesus was sent to bear the infirmities and the afflictions of the people and to destroy the works of the devil.  He said that the thief (which is the devil) cometh to steal and to kill and to destroy, "... I am come that they might have life, and ... have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).  I maintain that God wishes all His people to have the life more abundant.  We have the remedy for all sickness in the Word of God!  Jesus paid the full price and the full redemption for every need and where sin abounds, grace can come in and much more abound, and dispel all the sickness.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

God Depends On Us 6/16 Monday Meditation

After the Holy Ghost has come upon you, you have power.  I believe a great mistake is made in these days by people tarrying and tarrying after they have received.  After you have received it is, "Go ye."  Not "sit still," but "go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel."  We shall make serious havoc of the whole thing if we turn back again and crawl into a corner seeking something we already have. I want you to see that God depends on us in these last days.  There is no room for anyone to boast and the man who goes about saying, "Look at me for I am somebody," is of no value whatever.  God is done with that man altogether.  He will have a people to glorify Him.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

Amid All the Other Voices 6/13 Friday Faith

I believe we ought to be in the place where we shall always be able to understand the mind of the Spirit amid all the other voices in the world.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

If We Will Only Begin! 6/12 Thursday Thoughts

Ah, brothers and sisters, we have no idea what God has for us if we will only begin!  But oh, the grace we need!  We may make a mishap.  If you do it outside of Him, if you do it for yourself, and if you want to be someone, it will be a failure.  We shall only be able to do well as we do it in the name of Jesus.  Oh, the love that God's Son can put into us if we are only humble enough, weak enough, and helpless enough to know that except He does it, it will not be done!
-- Smith Wigglesworth

Coal Miner Healed 6/11 Wednesday Wisdom

In a place in England I was dealing on the lines of faith and what would take place if we believed God.  Many things happened.  But when I got away it appeared one man who worked in the colliery [coal mine] had heard me.  He was in trouble with a stiff knee.  He said to his wife, "I cannot help but think every day that that message of Wigglesworth's was to stir us to do something.  I cannot get away from it.  All the men in the pit know how I walk with a stiff knee... Well, I am going to act.  You have to be the congregation."  He got his wife in front of him.  "I am going to act and do just as Wigglesworth did."  He got hold of his leg unmercifully, saying, "Come out, you devils, come out!  In the name of Jesus.  Now, Jesus, help me.  Come out, you devils, come out."  Then he said, "Wife, they are gone!  Wife, they are gone.  This is too good.  I am going to act now."  So he went to his place of worship and all the collier boys were there.  It was a prayer meeting.  As he told them this story these men became delighted.  They said, "Jack, come over here and help me."  And Jack went.  As soon as he was through in one home he was invited to another, loosing these people of the pains they had gotten in the colliery.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

God Wants Manifestation 6/10 Tuesday Truth

God wants manifestation and He wants His glory to be seen.  He wants us all to be filled with that line of thought that He can look upon us and delight in us subduing the world unto Him.  And so you are going to miss a great deal if you don't begin to act.  But once you begin to act in the order of God, you will find that God establishes your faith and from that day starts you on the line of the promises.  When will you begin?
-- Smith Wigglesworth

What God Has For Us 6/9 Monday Meditation

Beloved, we must see that the baptism with the Holy Ghost is an activity with an outward manifestation.  When I was in Norway, God was mightily moving there, though I had to talk by interpretation.  However, God always worked in a wonderful way.  One day we met a man who stopped the three men I was with, one being the interpreter.  I was walking on, but I saw he was in a dilemma, so I turned back and said to the interpreter, "What is the trouble?"  "This man," he said, "is so full of neuralgia that he is almost blind and he is in a terrible state." ... I said to the spirit that was afflicting him, "Come out of him in the name of Jesus."  And the man said, "It is all gone!  It is all gone!  I am free!"  Ah, brothers, we have no conception of what God has for us.
--Smith Wigglesworth
 

Pentecost 5/7 Friday Faith

This coming Sunday is the Christian celebration of Pentecost, called Shavuot in the Old Testament.   To the Hebrews Shavuot celebrated the wheat harvest and the giving of the Ten Commandments.  To Christians Pentecost celebrates the giving of the Holy Spirit and the resulting harvest of souls.  There are many parallels more parallels of how Shavuot foreshadowed Pentecost. 

We will be having a traditional celebration of Shavuot at the Friday night service at Beit Ahavah Messianic Congregation.  Email me if you would like more information.  If you ever wanted to dance the hora around the sanctuary (optional), here's your chance!  And if you like to eat a meal of sweets afterwards!   (Cheesecake is the tradition.)

My ministry partner and I will follow up Pentecost by teaching on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues Monday night at Beit Ahavah.  Email for more information or for a link to our hand-out.

In Acts 1:8 we read:  "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you..."  Oh, the power of the Holy Ghost!  the power that quickens, that reveals, and prevails!  I love to think that Jesus wanted all His people to have power, that He wanted all men to be overcomers.  Nothing but this power will do it.  Power over sin, power over sickness, power over the devil, power over all the powers of the devil!

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Onflow of the Holy Spirit 6/5 Thursday Thoughts

If the incoming of the Spirit is lovely, what must be the onflow?  The incoming is only to be an onflow.  I am very interested in scenery.  When I was in Switzerland I wouldn't be satisfied till I went to the top of the mountain, though I like the valleys also. On the summit of the mountain the sun beats on the snow and sends the water trickling down the mountains right through to the meadows.  Go there and see if you can stop it.  Just so in the spiritual.  God begins with the divine flow of His eternal power which is the Holy Ghost, and you cannot stop it.We must always clearly see that the baptism with the Spirit must make us ministering spirits.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Holy Ghost Brings Manifestation 6/4 Wednesday Wisdom

 Always keep in your mind the fact that the Holy Ghost must bring manifestation.  We must understand that the Holy Ghost is breath, the Holy Ghost is Person, and it is the most marvelous thing to me to know that this Holy Ghost power can be in every part of your body.  You can feel it from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet.  Oh, it is lovely to be burning all over with the Holy Ghost!  And when that takes place there is nothing but the operation of the tongue that must give forth the glory and the praise.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Precious in the Sight of God 6/3 Tuesday Truth

If the saints only knew how precious they are in the sight of God they would scarcely be able to sleep for thinking of His watchful, loving care.  Oh, He is a precious Jesus!  He is a lovely Savior!  He is divine in all His attitude toward us, and makes our hearts to burn.  There is nothing like it. "Oh," they said on the road to Emmaus, "did not our heart burn within us, as He walked with us and talked with us?"  (Luke 24:32).  Oh, beloved, it must be so today.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

Free in the Spirit 6/2 Monday Meditation

Any assembly that puts its hand upon the  working of the Spirit will surely dry up.  The assembly must be as free in the Spirit as possible, and you must allow a certain amount of extravagance when people are getting through to God.  Unless we are vey wise, we can easily interfere and quench the power of God which is upon us.
-- Smith Wigglesworth