So Much More 10/1 Wednesday Wisdom

Tomorrow I will be concluding my Wigglesworth quotes.  This is from the last paragraph of the last sermon in the complete book of Smith Wigglesworth's sermons.

There is more for us all yet, praise the Lord.  This is only the beginning.  So far we  have only touched the fringe of things.  there is so much more for us if we will but yield to God.

Do you want to receive the Spirit? 

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children:  how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?  --Luke 11:13 

MY 1000th FAITH QUOTES POST! 9/30 Tuesday Truth

Today marks the 1000th "Lep's Faith Quotes" post on www.lepsfaithquotes.com and "Lep's Faith Quotes" group on Facebook.  I began posting there on July 30, 2010.   The counters show that each quote is read an average of 38 times.  The quotes are read around the world, including by several pastors in the U.S., Africa, and India.  More pages were read in Russia last week than in the U.S. ! 

The quotes go into an additional 16 homes by email.  If you receive this by email, you've read OVER 2000 QUOTES if you've been in the email group since it started in 2006.  I hope that these quotes have blessed you and helped you to grow in your faith and the realization of your spiritual authority over the works of the enemy.

How we have sinned against God!  How we lack this spirit of compassion.  Do we weep as we look forth upon the unsaved?  If not we are not Pentecost-full.  Jesus was moved with compassion, are you?

-- Smith Wigglesworth  

A Baptism of Love 9/29 Monday Meditation

Is it possible after we have been baptized with the Holy Ghost to be satisfied with what we see?  What made Jesus weep over Jerusalem?  Because He had a heart of compassion -- sin-sick souls everywhere -- we want a baptism of love which goes to the bottom of the disease.  To cry unto God until He brings us up to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

-- Smith Wigglesworth 

Repentance 9/26 Friday Faith

Where is the fault for the state of things we see today?  The lack of a deep spirit of repentance.  Weeping is not repentance, sorrow is not repentance.  Repentance is a turning away and doing the work of righteousness and holiness.

--Smith Wigglesworth

ROSH HASHANAH: Happy New Year! 9/25 Thursday Thoughts

If you know me very well, you know that I like to educate Christians about their Jewish heritage, particularly the Old Testament festivals that Jesus Himself celebrated, which all were foreshadowings of His own birth, death, resurrection, and return.

Rosh Hashanah ("head of the year") or Yom Teruah ("Day of the Shout") or Feast of Trumpets begins at sundown Wednesday, September 24, and continues through Friday.

 

 Leviticus 23: ²³ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a ^[d]rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 

 

The blowing of the shofar symbolized God's judgment, Israel's repentance, and divine restoration.  Jews in Jesus's time believed that the shofar would announce the resurrection of the dead.

Rosh Hashanah is traditionally the day that the world was created.  It begins a ten-day period of repentance, culminating on Yom Kippur. 

Why is the new year celebrated on the seventh month (Tishri) of the lunar calendar?  "B'resheet" ("in the beginning") is the first word in the Bible.  Spelled backwards, it reads "On the first of Tishri".   I'm sure you're all slapping your foreheads wondering why you didn't realize that!  LOL.  
 

For the fourth year, BP1 and I will be welcoming the new year at Sar Shalom Messianic Congregation in Mansfield.  Don U. and BP2 will be joining us this year for the first time.  We will have a celebration with liturgical dance, liturgical prayers, contemporary praise and worship with dancing the hora around the sanctuary, blowing about 30 shofars outdoors at sunset, and eating sweets for a sweet new year.    

from Sar Shalom's assistant rabbi Michelle Foss on Facebook:

Here's the Hebrew idiom of all Hebrew idioms...
 In Judaism, because no one knows the day or the hour of Rosh Hashanah- because it is the only feast that falls on the first day of the new moon/month on 1 Tishrei...
when the watchmen see the first white sliver of light on the blackened disc of the moon...it ushers in the feast of trumpets...
and because it looks like a winking eye, they call it the "twinkling of an eye!"
 In ancient Israel, the watchmen had posts from the desert to Jerusalem - when they saw that sliver of white light on the moon, they would light each of their torches from the various distances of their posts...
they would sound their shofars, so it sounded like thunder, and the torchlights resembled a flashing of lightning all the way from the west to the east!
 Now I don't know about you, but scripture does say we won't know the day or the hour, but we will be able to discern the signs and seasons - "the ot and the moedim..." it also says this...

 Mat 24:27 For as the lightning comes forth from the east and shines as far as the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man.  ...
 
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
 
1Th 4:16 Because the Master Himself shall come down from Heaven with a commanding shout of an archangel's voice, and with the trumpet of YAHWEH. And the dead in Messiah will rise again first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who remain alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet with our Master in the air. And so we will always be with our Master.

  for more information:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah

Singing in the Dark 9/24 Wednesday Wisdom

When the pressure is heavy that is the time to sing.  Pressure is permitted to strengthen the attitude and spirit of praise.  It takes a man to sing in the dark when the storm and battle are raging, and it is such singing that makes the man.

-- Smith Wigglesworth 

Praise is God's Sunlight 9/23 Tuesday Truth

Praise is God's sunlight in the heart.  It destroys sin germs.  It ripens the fruits of the Spirit.  It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.  There can be no holy life without it.  It keeps the heart pure and they eye clear.  Praise is essential to the knowledge of God and His will.  The strength of a life is the strength of its song.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Bread 9/22 Monday Meditation

Children of God have bread, it is the life of Jesus.  Jesus has all the bread you want, for spirit, soul, and body.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

God's Word Abideth 9/19 Friday Faith

God has established truth in His Word.  Men have tried to bring it to nought.  God has His Word in the earth, it is also settled in heaven.  If you are on the Word you are eternally fixed.  God has said it, it is established, the Word of God abideth forever.  Men pass away, things change, but God's Word abideth forever.

-- Smith Wigglesworth  

Anything that... 9/18 Thursday Thoughts

When Satan can get to your body he will, if possible, make the pain, or the weakness, so distracting that it will affect your mind, and always bring your mind down to where the pain is.  When that takes place, you haven't the same freedom in the Spirit to lift up your heart and shout, and praise the Lord, because the distraction of the pain brings the elementary power which ought to be full of praise to God, down into the body...

Beloved, I mean precisely this:  Anything that takes me from a position where I am in an attitude of worship, of peace, of joy, of a consciousness of the presence of God, of an inward moving of the powers of God that makes me able to lift myself up and live in the world as though I was not of it (because I am not of it); anything that dethrones me from that attitude is evil, is Satan.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Sickness and Disease 9/17 Wednesday Wisdom

I have looked through my Bible, and I cannot find where God brings disease and sickness.  I know there is glory, and I know it is the power of God that brings the glory; but it isn't God at all, but the devil that brings sickness and disease.

 

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Weakness of Believrs 9/16 Tuesday Truth

I am going on now to show you the weakness of believers.  Does God know all about you?  Is He acquainted with you altogether?  Why not trust Him who knows all about you, instead of telling somebody else who knows only what you have told them.

Again, why should you -- under any circumstances -- believe that you will be better by being diseased?  When disease is impurity, why should you ever believe that you should be sanctified by having a great deal of sickness?  

Some people talk about God being pleased to put disease on His children.  "Here is a person I love," says God.  "I will break his arm.  In order that he should love Me more, I will break his leg.  In order that he should love Me still more, I will give him a weak heart.  And in order to increase that love, I will make him so that he cannot eat anything without having digestion."   (to be continued)

--Smith Wigglesworth 


 

No Purification in Disease 9/15 Monday Meditation

Could the kingdom of heaven bring weaknesses?  diseases?  Could it bring imperfection on the body?  Could it bring consumption?  Could it bring extreme burnings, cancers, tumors? ...

The kingdom of heaven is the life of Jesus, it is the power of the Highest.  The kingdom of heaven is pure, it is holy.  It has no disease, no imperfection.  It is as holy as God is.  And Satan with his evil power "cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy" that body.

Every ailment that any one has tonight is from satanic source.  It is foolish and ridiculous to think that sickness purifies you.  There is no purification in disease.   

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Sons of God With Power 9/12 Friday Faith

Therefore, beloved, if you will hear the truth of the Gospel, you will see that God has made provision for you to be strong, to be on fire, to be as though you were quickened from the dead, as those who have seen the King, as those who have a resurrection touch.  We know we are the sons of God with power as we believe His Word and stand in the truth of His Word.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Hunger and Thirst 9/11 Thursday Thoughts

Only one thing is going to accomplish the purpose of God -- that is, to be filled with the Spirit we must yield and submit, until our bodies are saturated with God, that at any moment God's will can be revealed.  We want a great hunger and thirst for God.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

A Rest of Faith 9/10 Wednesday Wisdom

He will keep you in perfect peace as you stay your mind upon Him and trust in Him.  He will bring you to a rest of faith, to a place of blessed assurance that all that happens is working for your eternal good.

-- Smith Wigglesworth
 

Count on Him 9/9 Tuesday Truth

The resurrected Christ appeared to Peter and a few more of them early one morning on the shore of the lake.  He prepared a meal for the tired, tried disciples.  This is just like Him.  Count on His presence.  Count on His power.  Count on His provision.  He is always there just where you need him. 
-- Smith Wigglesworth

In a Needy Place 9/8 Monday Meditation

You say, "I am in a needy place."  It is in needy places that God delights to work.  For three days the people that were with Christ were without food, and He asked Philip, "From whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?"  That was a hard place for Philip, but not for Jesus, for He knew perfectly what He would do.  That hard place is where He delights to show forth His miraculous power.  And how fully was the need provided for.  Bread enough and to spare!
-- Smith Wigglesworth

The Prize Ahead 9/5 Friday Faith

If we went all the way with God, what would happen?  What should we see if we would only seek to bring honor to the name of our God? ... There is no standing still.  We must move on to a fuller power of the Spirit, never satisfied that we have apprehended all, but filled with the assurance that God will take us on to the goal we desire to reach, as we press on for the prize ahead.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

A Raising from the Dead 9/4 Thursday Thoughts

This is one of the most famous stories from Smith Wigglesworth's ministry.   According to various accounts, he raised between nine and fourteen people from the dead in the course of his ministry.

One morning about eleven o'clock I saw a woman who was suffering with a tumor.  She could not live through the day.  A little blind girl led me to the bedside.  Compassion broke me up and I wanted that woman to live for the child's sake. I said to the woman, "Do you want to live?"  She could not speak.  She just moved her finger.  I anointed her with oil and said, "In the name of Jesus."  There was a stillness of death that followed; and the pastor, looking at the woman, said to me, "She is gone."

When God pours in His compassion it has resurrection power in it.  I carried that woman across the room, put her against a wardrobe, and held her there.  I said, "In the name of Jesus, death, come out."  And soon her body began to tremble like a leaf.  "In Jesus' name, walk,"  I said.  She did and went back to bed.

I told this story in the assembly.  There was a doctor there and he said, "I'll prove that."  He went to the woman and she told him it was perfectly true.  She said, "I was in heaven, and I saw countless numbers all like Jesus.  The I heard a voice saying, "Walk, in the name of Jesus.'"

There is power in the name of Jesus.  Let us apprehend it, the power of His resurrection, the power of His compassion, the power of His love.  Love will break the hardest thing -- there is nothing it will not break.
 

Miracles in Ceylon 9/3 Wednesday Wisdom

Some years ago I was in Ceylon.  In one place the folk complained, "Four days is not much to give us." ... "We are not touching the people here at all." I said, "Can you have a meeting early in the morning, at eight o'clock?"  They said they would.  So I said, "Tell all the mothers who want their babies to be healed to come, and all the people over seventy to come, and after that we hope to give an address to the people to make them ready for the baptism in the Spirit."

It would have done you good to see the four hundred mothers coming at eight o'clock with their babies, and then to see the hundred and fifty old people, with their white hair, coming to be healed.  We need to have something more than smoke to touch the people; we need to be a burning fire for God.  His ministers must be flames of fire.

-- Smith Wigglesworth 

Burning and Shining Lights 9/2 Tuesday Truth

The need in the world today is that we should be burning and shining lights to reflect the glory of Christ.  We cannot do it with a cold indifferent experience, and we never shall.  His servants are to be flames of fire.  Christ came that we might have life, and life more abundantly.  And we are to give that life to others, to be ministers of the life and power and healing virtue of Jesus Christ wherever we go.
-- Smith Wigglesworth