Concluding E.W. Kenyon Quotes 12/31 Thursday Thoughts

After almost a year, this will be the last E.W. Kenyon quote, and the last quote of the year.  I'll be back Monday, January 4, with quotes by John G. Lake.  Wishing you a new year of God's spiritual prosperity. 

"Now in all these things we are more than conquerors" (Romans 8:37), and we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.
There is no earthly power or demoniacal power that can separate us from the Father love that was in Jesus.  You are His own, and He is yours.

--E.W. Kenyon

Being What You Are 12/30 Wednesday Wisdom

If you demean yourself and talk about your lack, you rob Him of the glory of His finished work in you and you give place to the adversary's dominance.  You must never do it. You must get used to being what you are.  That may be hard with all the Christians about you magnifying weakness and failure, but you must magnify your union with Christ, your utter oneness with Him.
You can do it.  He is your very strength this day.  He is your ability.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Into the Realm of Victory 12/29 Tuesday Truth

Just as Jesus dared to say, "I am the vine, and ye are the branches"; or, "I am the light of this world"; you say, "I am what He says I am."  More than even that you can say, "I can do what He says I can do."
Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me." 
You see, we are moving out of the realm of weakness into the realm of victory; and you can say, "I am more than a conqueror, for I am complete in Him who is the head of all principalities."

--E.W. Kenyon

The Good Fight of Faith 12/28 Monday Meditation

I hope that all of you had a wonderfully blessed Christmas.  I am at the end of the book Advanced Bible Studies by E.W. Kenyon.  I will be concluding Kenyon quotes at the end of the week / year.  I will be starting the new year with another writer, probably John G. Lake, as our focus is early 20th Century Pentecostal pioneers whom you would not encounter in ordinary devotionals.

The good fight of faith is a battle that has been won a long time ago, in which you do nothing but acknowledge the defeat of your enemy and your own victory in Christ.  The fight of faith is not a struggle on your part.  It is a recognition and a confession on your part of the victory that you and Christ won over the adversary in that great substitutionary battle that took place before He arose from the dead.
You were identified in that.  You were crucified with Him.  You were buried with Him.  You were raised with Him.  You conquered the enemy with Him.
Now, with faith planted solidly upon this foundation, you face your enemy without fear.  You dare to say, "I am the righteousness of God in Christ."

--E.W. Kenyon

Old Things Passed 12/24 Thursday Thoughts

This will be the last post until after Christmas.  Wishing each of you and your families a blessed Christmas and remembrance of the Greatest Gift of All.

"Wherefore if any man is in Christ there is a new creation."
Did you notice something?  "The old things have passed away."  [2 Corinthians 5:17]
What are the old things?  They are failure, weakness, fear, a sense of unworthiness.  They have stopped being.
What  are you?  You are a branch of Christ. You are a part of Christ just as the branch is a part of the vine.  You are a part of Christ, and Christ is God.  (John 15:5)
The same wonderful characteristics that were manifested in the earth walk of Jesus now can be manifested in you.  All it requires is that you take your part.

--E.W. Kenyon

Who Can Separate? 12/23 Wednesday Wisdom

Then the Spirit triumphantly cries:  "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"
There can't be anything.  Satan has no ability to do it.  Circumstances can't do it:  sin can't do it because we have our own Advocate, we have our own Savior, our own Intercessor.  We are more than conquerors.

--E.W. Kenyon

Come Boldly (part 2) 12/22 Tuesday Truth

You come boldly now because They have made you a New Creation.  They have made you the righteousness of God in Christ (II Corinthians 5:21).  You are now His very righteousness because you are a partaker of the Divine Nature.  You are a very son, a very daughter, and He is your own Father.Can't you see what it can mean to you to come into a throne room under such conditions? There is your Advocate.  There is your Savior.  There is your Lord on your side.
Can't you hear Him say, "How will He not with Him freely give you all things?"

--E.W. Kenyon

Come Boldly (part 1) 12/21 Monday Meditation

Can't you see what it means to have a High Priest, a Mediator, an Intercessor, an Advocate, and a Lover in the highest seat of authority in the universe?  He ever lives to make intercession for you.
Now He bids you to come boldly to the throne of grace.  That means that you are to come into His presence with your needs.  You are in the throne room, and the Father that loved you and gave His Son up for you is on the throne.  That man who loved you and gave Himself up for you is seated by His side, there to love you.  (to be continued) 

-- E.W. Kenyon

The Righteous One 12/18 Friday Faith

When we lose our sense of righteousness, and the adversary has gained the ascendancy:  then we make the confession of our sins and we cry for mercy.  Jesus takes up our case.
He is the Righteous One.  He can stand for us.  When we lose our sense of Righteousness, He can restore us again to our fellowship.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Our Intercessor 12/17 Thursday Thoughts

Hebrews 7:25,  "... seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them."His ministry of intercession is little appreciated by the believer.  In every temptation, in every trial, and at every hard place, Jesus ever lives to pray for us.  This is the reason for our victory.
Paul says in Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me."
Strength comes through His intercession.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Exercise in the Word 12/16 Wednesday Wisdom

Philippians 1:20 gives us a beautiful illustration:  "According to my earnest expectations and hope, that in nothing shall I be put  to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death."

Paul wanted Christ to be magnified in his body through the things he did and said.  He wanted Jesus to be magnified, made attractive, so that men would want Him.  This can only come as we exercise ourselves in the Word.

--E.W. Kenyon

Dominate the Circumstances 12/14 Tuesday Truth

You see, you become so strong in the Word that you dominate the circumstances around you.  You understand that faith is not the product of sense evidences, but faith is something that grows out of your spirit that has walked in the Word, lived in the Word, and in which the Word has lived and dominated, until it becomes utterly one with the Word.

--E.W. Kenyon

The Adversary Is Conquered 12/14 Monday Meditation

[Jesus] was our substitute, and His combat with the adversary was our combat.  He defeated Satan, stripped him of his authority before He arose from the dead.  This victory becomes ours when we remember that the adversary that is combating us is conquered, that he is our subject instead of our master.  Then we should say, "In Jesus' Name, demon, you leave me," and he must go.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Saturated With the Word 12/11 Friday Faith

Our spirits can be so developed, so strengthened, that we will become God-minded, Word-minded.  In the morning our minds unconsciously go to Him for guidance and wisdom for the day.  We have exercised ourselves in the Word until our whole being is saturated with it.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Secret of Meditating 12/10 Thursday Thoughts

The man who controls his meditation will control his conduct and control his speech. When we learn the secret of meditating in the Word, yielding our minds over to the Word, then Psalm 104:34 becomes a reality. Our meditation will be sweet unto Him, and we will rejoice in Jehovah.

--E.W. Kenyon

Psalm 104:34 New King James Version (NKJV)

34 May my meditation be sweet to Him;

I will be glad in the Lord.

Feeding on the Word (cont.) 12/9 Wednesday Wisdom

Committing the Word to memory does not do it; learning the history of the books of the Bible does not do it; learning the Hebrew and the Greek words will not do it.  Only one thing will do:  my doing the Word, practicing it, living it in my daily life, trusting in it, acting on it.  That is our secret.

--E.W. Kenyon

Feed on the Word 12/8 Tuesday Truth

Just as we have exercised ourselves physically to build up muscle, as we have exercised mentally to build up memory and store our minds with facts and data, so we now should build up our Love life, build up our wisdom life, build up our creative energy.
How? By feeding on the Word of God.  The Word is God's wisdom, God's ability, God's very Life.  As I feed on it, it cultivates, strengthens, and builds up my spirit.  It builds faith into me.  It builds God's ability into me.  It builds into me every attractive thing that you saw in Jesus' life.    (to be continued)

--E.W. Kenyon 

Sons of God 12/7 Monday Meditation

The Jews were the servants of God; we are the sons of God.
I John 3:2, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God."
John 1:13, "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

--E.W. Kenyon

Recreated by God Himself 12/4 Friday Faith

Ephesians 2:10, "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus."
When you know that you have been recreated by God Himself, you know that the work is satisfactory to the Author of the work.
It gives you a real foundation for faith.

 --E. W. Kenyon

Christianity Is / Is Not... 12/3 Thursday Thoughts

Christianity is a relationship between the Father and His Family.It is not a religion.
It is not having your sins forgiven.
It is not joining the church.
It is being made a New Creation in Christ; it is being born from above.
It is receiving the Nature and Life of God.
It is being united with Christ. 

--E. W. Kenyon

Reasoning Faculties vs. Our Spirits 12/2 Wednesday Wisdom

We ought to understand that the Father does not reveal Himself to our reasoning faculties but to our spirits.
Our reasoning faculties can only apprehend the things that the five senses convey to them.
Outside of that, the reasoning faculties are unfruitful.
When our spirits are recreated they receive Eternal Life.
We can know the Father.  We can enjoy fellowship with Him through His Word.  We have become so utterly identified with Him, so utterly one with Him, that the "vine and the branch" is the only suitable illustration of this new and beautiful relationship.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Recreated by Love 12/1 Tuesday Truth

We have become New Creations.  We have been recreated by Love.  Love has been imparted to our spirit.God is Love, and God's nature is Love; but God is also Life, the Author of Life.
So He has imparted to us His Life Nature, His Love Nature.
God has imparted His Nature to us, making us New Creations.
That Nature is Righteousness.  It is Holiness.  It is Reality.  It is Love.
It has been imparted to us.

--E.W. Kenyon 

A New Creation 11/30 Monday Meditation

His old sin consciousness, his old fallen life, his old sin life, and his old evil habits that grow out of Spiritual death, have passed away.He is a new Creation.  He is a New Being.
The Father has no memory of his past life.  He is a new-born babe.
His old past life has stopped being in the Mind of the Father.
A New Creation has come into being through grace.

--E.W. Kenyon 

That Ability Is Our Ability 11/25 Wednesday Wisdom

This will be my last post for the week.  Hope you have a happy and blessed Thanksgiving and safe travels.

Ephesians 1:19-23, "And what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places."

That ability is our ability.  That ability is the Spirit's, Who dwells within you, and in the Name that He has given us to use in our daily conflict with the enemy. 

--E. W. Kenyon

You Arose With Him 11/24 Tuesday Truth

[Jesus] has become the Master of Hell.  He has conquered Satan.  He has stripped him of the authority that Adam gave him in the fall in the great temptation.  He arose from the dead, and I arose with Him ... you arose with Him.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Nothing Can Separate 11/23 Monday Meditation

Romans 8:38-39...  "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
He enumerates everything that can come to a man or a woman, every calamity that can possibly come in our earth walk, and tells us that none can separate us from the love of our Father.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Marvelous Statement 11/20 Friday Faith

"My little children, these things I write unto you that ye may not sin.  And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."  (I John 2:1)
I think that this is one of the most marvelous statements in the whole of the Epistles.  Seated at the Father's right hand is our righteous Advocate; and the minute that I break fellowship, He is there in fellowship with the Father.  I lose my sense of righteousness. He is the Righteous One. He is there, in the Presence of the Father, to plead my case.
I look up to the Father and say, "Father, forgive me for doing that thing."  And the moment I do, He forgives me.  It is wiped out as though it had never been.  The instant that I confess it and tell the Father of it, Jesus says, "Lay that to My account."
Notice that the Father has  no memory of your past mistakes and failures.  You must forget them too.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Cleansing 11/19 Thursday Thoughts

"And the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin." That is effective as long as we are in fellowship.
The correct meaning of the word "sin" is "missing the mark."
As long as I am in fellowship with Him, I may miss the mark again and again, but His blood avails for me.  

--E.W. Kenyon

No Fellowship, No Knowledge 11/18 Wednesday Wisdom

When we break fellowship with the Father by refusing to do His will, and step out of love, we walk in darkness.  That minute the Bible stops being a living message to us.

No one ever criticizes another believer as long as he is walking in fellowship.  All bitterness and criticism and unkindness is a product of broken fellowship.

If we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another; but if we walk in darkness, we have no fellowship with one another.   We have no knowledge of His will.

--E.W. Kenyon

Broken Fellowship 11/17 Tuesday Truth

Fellowship can be broken because I willfully fail to do His will.  I step out of light into darkness.  I stop practicing love; and when I do that, I step over into darkness -- into Satan's territory.  I am filled with restlessness.
Joy is gone.  My fellowship with the Father is gone.
If I say that I have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, I lie and do not the truth.
"But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another (and with the Father), and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin."  (I John 1:7)

-- E. W. Kenyon 

Fellowship and Affliction 11/16 Monday Meditation

Faith cannot grow without rich fellowship with the Father.  I don't care how much knowledge one has of the Word, if his fellowship is broken, his faith is crippled.  The adversary takes advantage of him and holds him in bondage.Most people who have chronic physical trouble have an unsatisfactory fellowship with the Father and with the Word.  They develop a petulant spirit.  They begin to challenge the faithfulness and the love of the Father.
"Well, if God loves me, why has He afflicted me like this?"
You understand that the Father hasn't afflicted them.  The adversary has afflicted them and they have submitted to the adversary's affliction, and have lived in misery and bondage.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Fellowship With the Father 11/13 Friday Faith

You may be a child of God, and have all the knowledge and the riches that belong to that marvelous relationship; but if you have no fellowship with the Father there is no joy in your life.  It is an empty, dry thing.  The power of our ministry lies in our fellowship...

Now what is that fellowship?  It is that sweet communion between your spirit and the Father.  It is that glad richness that comes through the unveiling of the Word to your spirit. 

It is the quiet assurance that fills your heart with an unspeakable, irrepressible joy.

--E.W. Kenyon

The Secret of Joy 11/12 Thursday Thoughts

What does joy grow out of?  What is the secret?

I Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord."

Fellowship is the secret, is the thing that gives joy.  When the fellowship is broken, the joy dies.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Joy and the Love Law 11/11 Wednesday Wisdom

[Y]ou may never have learned the secret of joy.

You say, "What do you mean by joy?"

John 15:10,11, "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love."

Then we see in the ninth verse another secret, "Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you; abide ye in my love."

We are to walk in love and live love, and to keep His commandments.

John 13:34,35 shows us that the Law of the New Creation, the law that governs the New Creation, is the love law.  We are to love one another even as He has loved us.

--E.W. Kenyon

You May Have... 11/10 Tuesday Truth

Now you may have Righteousness; you may have Eternal Life.  You may have the consciousness of sonship.  You may have the great mighty Spirit come and make His home in your body, because that is the ultimate of the New Creation.
You see, you are recreated so that your body might become the home of God.
You remember I Corinthians 6:19-20, "Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?  For ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body."

--E.W. Kenyon 

A New Nature 11/9 Monday Meditation

That new creation is the product of God Himself.  He, through the Spirit, has given birth to a New Nature in us.The old nature of failure, of sin consciousness, that was ruled by the adversary and was a part of the adversary, has stopped being.  A New Nature has taken its place.  We are now the very sons and daughters of God Almighty.
As many as are willing to let the Spirit guide them, will be led into the New Creation.

-- E.W. Kenyon

LIfe, Light, Joy 11/6 Friday Faith

God's Nature is Life. Its first manifestations are Love, Joy, and Peace.Satan's nature is spiritual death.  Its first manifestations are hatred, murder and deceit.  His whole realm is called darkness.
Colossians 1:13, "Who delivered us out of the power (authority) of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love."
Notice the contrast.  You have come out of the realm of Satan (spiritual death, hatred, and murder) into the realm of Life, of Light and Joy.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Make His Heart Glad 11/5 Thursday Thoughts

Then I want to know Him.  I want to please Him.  I want to make His heart glad as that first Son did.  What a beautiful life it is.
It is not struggling to be righteous.  It is just struggling to make His heart glad.

--E.W. Kenyon 

Relationship 11/4 Wednesday Wisdom

This is the very relationship of the Church to the Father now.  This is your relationship as a child of God. You are in the Father, and the Father is in you.  That is, He has imparted His Life to you.  His very Nature has been given to you.  You are as much His child as Jesus was.When your heart can take this in, He will become more to you, and you will realize something of what we are to Him.

--E. W. Kenyon 

Father 11/3 Tuesday Truth

The Jews called Him God, and Jesus called Him Father.  The Church today calls Him God.  How few ever intelligently call Him Father.  How lonesome He must be.  He is a Father God with a Father heart, and His people call Him God -- just 'Mr. God," like they should speak of a neighbor.  Let us learn the secret of His Father heart. 
-- E. W. Kenyon

Father-Pleasers 11/2 Monday Meditation

Notice, "I do nothing of myself."  "I teach nothing of myself.  I teach what the Father taught me.  The Father is with me.  He hath not left me alone."
Why?  Because He was the Father-pleaser.
Do you know that every one of us can be that?  What a change it would make in life, wouldn't it?  Almost all of us are hindered and imprisoned in the things we want that He is not pleased with.  We are struggling with things that shut us away from the sweetest fellowship with Him.

--E. W. Kenyon

Jesus' Outstanding Feature 10/30 Friday Faith

One of my students once asked, "What is the outstanding feature of Jesus' life?"
It was His continual confession of what He was to the Father and what the Father was to Him.  There are many other striking things about Jesus, but there is nothing like this.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Every Need 10/29 Thursday Thoughts

"My God shall supply every need of yours" (Philippians 4:19).You want to learn to trust that absolutely.  You want to trust Philippians 4:13:  "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me."  That must become a part of your very being.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Lordship of Love 10/28 Wednesday Wisdom

The first step in this wonder life is your recognizing the Lordship in Jesus.
You do that.  That leads you into your rights.  Now that you have confessed the Lordship of the Master, it means that you have confessed the Lordship of His Word.  It governs your life.
You confess the Lordship of Love, that new kind of Love that has been shed abroad in your hearts by the Holy Spirit.  (Romans 5:5)

--E.W. Kenyon 

No Reason to be a Weakling 10/27 Tuesday Truth

II Corinthians 2:14, "Thanks be unto God who always leadeth me in triumph in Christ."
That should be the song on the lips of every believer.  There isn't any reason for your being a weakling.  There is no reason for it whatever.  The strength and ability of God are yours. 

-- E.W. Kenyon

Ability to Stand 10/26 Monday Meditation

We are back from a trip to Philadelphia, to a friend's daughter's wedding, followed by a trip to ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, WALES, AND IRELAND.  Watch my Facebook page for pictures.  I'll be posting a different set every day. 

Do you know what the fruits of your righteousness are?  You have become the righteousness of God in Christ.  That means that you have ability to stand in the presence of Satan and all his works with utmost freedom, without a sense of inferiority.  You can stand in the presence of other men's failures, a victor.  You can walk into the Father's presence any time with boldness.  That Father has invited you to come with freedom of speech to the Throne of Grace and make your requests know.  (Hebrews 4:16)  It may be for yourself, or it may be for others.  You have a right there.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

All Sufficiency 10/9 Friday Faith

II Corinthians 9:8-10 is a challenge from the very heart of the Master: "And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work."Here is the sufficiency of God at our disposal.
Here is the fullness of God spoken of in John 1:16: "For of his fullness we have all received, and grace for grace."
This fullness or sufficiency, or ability of God belongs to every believer; and He has made it to abound to us that we, having "all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work."
-- E.W. Kenyon

This will be the last post until October 26, as I will be on vacation. 

Your Sufficiency 10/8 Thursday Thoughts

You are conscious of the reality of the Word.  He can't fail you.  He is with you.  He is with you in the written Word; He is with you in the Name of Jesus; He is with you in the Presence of the Holy Spirit.
That sufficiency of God is your sufficiency.  His ability is your ability.

-- E.W. Kenyon

At the end of the week I will be on two weeks' vacation.  Posts will resume on October 26. 

You Need the Word 10/7 Wednesday Wisdom

How long have you been a Christian?  How long have you had Eternal Life?  Directly after you received Eternal Life you should have begun a careful study of the Word, for you never can tell when a crisis will come and you will desperately need faith in the Word.  You also need the Word every day.  You need that quiet, restful spirit.

-- E.W. Kenyon 
At the end of this week, I will begin a two-week vacation.  No postings until October 26.

A Dead Word 10/6 Tuesday Truth

The Word is a dead word in the Bible on the table.  It only takes on life as we begin to act it, as we give it place, as we practice it in our daily conduct.

 --E.W. Kenyon

He and His Word Are One 10/5 Monday Meditation

We must realize that He and His Word are one; that man's word is a dying word; and that God's Word is a living, abiding Word. The most cultured and beautiful sermon is dead as soon as it is given unless it is filled with the Word. 

-- E.W. Kenyon 

No Substitute for the Word 10/3 Friday Faith

We have substituted Sense evidences for the Word.  We have substituted education and organization for the Word.  They are all of them failures.The Word in the lips of faith, filled with love, filled with the very life of God, has as great authority and ability as it ever had in the history of the Church.

--E.W. Kenyon

The Word Should Govern Us 10/2 Thursday Thoughts

The Church will never exercise the Divine authority that belongs to it until the Word becomes a part of our daily lives.That unwritten Word had more authority over the lives of these men than the written, living Word has today.  That is wrong.  This Word should govern us today.  Our lips should be filled with it.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Power of the Word 10/1 Thursday Thoughts

Here are some facts about the Word these men preached:It ruled their private lives.  It was magnified.  It increased; it grew, a living Power.  It multiplied.  Men were mastered by the Word.  Men proclaimed the Word.  Men gathered to hear the Word.
The Word grew mightily and prevailed in heathen cities.  The Word of grace is the revelation of the Ability of God to build Himself into the lives of men.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Authority of the Name 9/30 Wednesday Wisdom

Demons yield to the authority of the Name. The dead are raised; men are baptized into it; the sick are healed by it.  Men preached it.  The Sanhedrin feared it.  The Name took the place of the risen Christ just as the Word took the place of the risen Christ.   -- E. W. Kenyon 


BACK FROM VACATION.

You Cannot Be Moved 9/23 Wednesday Wisdom

The majority of people who have received the Holy Spirit, and have come in contact with my ministry, have never given Him a place in their lives.They have told me how great He was when He came in, but they have ignored Him and have tried to bear life's burdens alone.  They have acted as though He weren't there.
"You have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world."  He is greater than the world influences around you.  The influence has broken upon you as a flood, but you stand as a rock and cannot be moved.     -- E.W. Kenyon

This will be my last post until September 29, as I will be on vacation.

You Are a Conqueror 9/22 Tuesday Truth

Now I John 4:4 is yours:  "Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world."
You always remember that you are of God, and you remember that you are an overcomer...
Now the Great One inside is called upon and He rises in His grace and love to meet your problem.  He heals your nerves that are ragged, and irons out your difficulty.  He makes you a victor over the circumstance.  You have learned now the secret.  In the midst of want, or poverty, or in the midst of confusion or lack, you are a conqueror.

--E.W. Kenyon 
Tomorrow's quote will be the last one until September 29, as I will be on vacation.

No Fear in Love 9/21 Monday Meditation

I John 4:17,18, "Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world." As He is before the Father, so are we.  As He is in His rest, so are we.  As He is the Vine, so are we the branches.
We have been called into fellowship with Him.  We are walking in the light with Him.  We live in Love with Him.
So there is no fear in Love.  Perfect love casts out fear. (I John 4:18).

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Resting in His Rest 9/18 Friday Faith

He called us into fellowship with His Son.  The Son is in His rest.  He has rested from His work that He wrought for us in our Redemption.  We have entered into that rest without works.
We didn't have to do anything, so we are resting now in His rest.  We are quiet with His quietness.  We are fellowshipping His.  We have linked arms, as it were, with Him.  He is our Protection.  He is the Strength of our lives.

--E. W. Kenyon

God's Formula for Victory 9/17 Thursday Thoughts

Philippians 4:6, "In nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus."
In nothing be fearful or anxious.  Every anxiety has been committed to Him.  This is God's formula for a life of victory.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Every Burden 9/16 Wednesday Wisdom

I Peter 5:7, "Casting all your anxiety upon him because he careth for you."
Every burden has been put over on the Master.  You have come to recognize in Jesus and in the Father your perfect strength, your perfect rest, the place where nothing can disturb you.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

The Rest of Redemption 9/15 Tuesday Truth

The rest of Redemption is the thing which every believer should know and enjoy...

What kind of rest is it?  It is not the rest of one who is climbing a hill with a heavy load, and then sits down for a moment and holds the load in his arms.  It is the rest of one who has no burden, who has cast every burden upon the Lord.

--E. W. Kenyon 

The Conquering Power 9/14 Monday Meditation

The conquering power of the Church is not knowledge of the miraculous, but joy.  A joyful congregation is an attractive congregation.    A joyful believer is attractive.
Peter says in I Peter 1:8, "Whom having not seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory."

--E. W. Kenyon 

The Conquering Power 9/11 Friday Faith

The conquering power of the Church is not knowledge of the miraculous, but joy.  A joyful congregation is an attractive congregation.  A joyful believer is attractive.Peter says in I Peter 1:8, "Whom having not seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.   
-- E.W. Kenyon

Joy Made Full 9/10 Thursday Thoughts

[John 15:11]  "These things have I spoken unto you , that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full."
Whenever our joy seeps out and leaves us barren and empty, it proves that we are out of fellowship, out of contact with Him...

Jesus' joy is made full in us; our joy is made full in Him.
This is one of the sweetest, most beautiful things Jesus ever prayed for us.  The believer should never allow anything to rob him of his joy.

- E.W. Kenyon 

Joy Is a Fruit of Faith 9/9 Wednesday Wisdom

Joy is something that only believers have.  The world may have happiness.  They find that in their surroundings, their environment.  But joy is a fruit of faith.  It is a fruit that comes from the recreated spirit.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

My Peace 9/8 Tuesday Truth

"My peace I give unto you."
It is not the world's peace.  It is not the peace of mind, but it is the peace of the heart.  It is a heart peace.
Isaiah 26:3 is a prophecy of the church, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind (imagination) is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee." 

-- E. W. Kenyon

Rest, Peace, Joy 9/7 Monday Meditation

There are three great words that describe the condition of the believer who is taking advantage of his privileges in Christ -- rest, peace, and joy.  These three words are the fruit of full-grown faith.
John 14:27:  "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful." 
-- E. W. Kenyon

Why Jesus Healed: Part 2 9/4 Friday Faith

But someone says, "Didn't Jesus heal the sick to prove His Deity?"
No, He healed the sick because He was Love, because He was God manifest in the flesh.  It was Love that drove Jesus, just as it is Love that drives every man and woman who is in fellowship with the Father, carrying out His will here on earth, to heal the sick today.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Why Jesus Healed: part 1 9/3 Thursday Thoughts

Then Jesus' healing the sick was the will of the Father, being accomplished.  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  (Hebrews 13:8)
There is no change in the will of the Father. If it was His will to heal the sick while Jesus was here, it is His will to heal them today.   (to be continued)

-- E.W. Kenyon 

The Name of Jesus 9/2 Wednesday Wisdom

Then Barnabas takes Paul back to Jerusalem; and in the twenty-seventh verse [Acts 8], "And declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to Him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the Name of Jesus."
I wonder if you are grasping the significance of the Name.  We have preached everything but the Name.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Our "Suffering" Today 9/1 Tuesday Truth

[Acts 9:14-16] The sixteenth verse, "For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my Name's sake."
Jesus is talking to Ananias.  Paul is to suffer for the Name.
About the only suffering we have today in the Church is that for our eccentricities and our  Sense Knowledge teaching.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Glory to the Father 8/31 Monday Meditation

In John 14:14 we read, "If ye shall ask anything in my name that will I do."
In the previous verse we see, "That the Father may be glorified in the Son."
The Father is going to get glory from our use of the Name of Jesus to heal the sick and cast out demons, and in the working of miracles.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Joy Through the Name 8/28 Friday Faith

 

[John 16:23-26]  Jesus says that up to this time we have never asked anything in His Name, but that now He is giving His disciples the right to use His Name.  He uses this strange expression, "that your joy may be made full."
Happiness comes from circumstances.  Joy alone comes from the Lord.  There is to come to us a joy through the miraculous use of the Name of Jesus.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Life-giving Word 8/27 Thursday Thoughts

(cont. from Wednesday)  
The Word preached by the apostles was the Living Word, the Life-giving Word, the Recreating Word, the Miracle-performing Word.
The Word given to us by the Holy Spirit through the apostles' lips (this would include the epistles) is not only a Written Word, but it is a Living Word; it is a Life-giving Word; it is a Healing Word; it is a Prevailing Word; it is an God-indwelt Word.
In the lips of men of faith, the Word is filled with Faith, filled with Love, filled with Grace, filled with the very Nature and Life of God.
What a privilege it is to have in our lips this Living Word, this Life-giving Word.

--E.W. Kenyon

Three Phases of the Word 8/26 Wednesday Wisdom

Three are three phases of the Word.  We have the Word incarnate n the flesh (John 1:14).  Next we have the spoken Word in the Book of Acts.  Then we have the written Word that takes in the entire New Testament, but especially the Pauline Revelation.
So we have the "incarnate," the "spoken," and the "written" Word.  But the Word in the lips of Jesus was the Father's Word that was given to men through His Son. It was the healing Word, the miracle-performing Word.    (to be continued)

-- E.W. Kenyon 

The Place of the Word 8/25 Tuesday Truth

Acts 4:4 ..., "But many of them that heard the Word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand."  It doesn't say that they heard the apostles, but that they heard the Word.
Acts 6:2, "And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the Word of God, and serve tables."
How early they learned the place of the Word!
Acts 6:4, "But we will continue steadfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word."
These were untaught men, fishermen.  The Spirit had unveiled to them the place and dignity of the Word.
-- E. W. Kenyon

I So Love 8/24 Monday Meditation

God so loved that He gave.  I so love that I give.  I so love that I give my time; I give my money; I give my ability.  I lay it all upon the altar of grace.He loves you now and He wants you to love Him as He loved you.  He wants you to give as He gave.
You can't give as much, but you can give with the same spirit of love that He gave, can't you?  
-- E.W. Kenyon

How Jesus Could Love 8/21 Friday Faith

I never could get it clear in my heart how Jesus could love the man who was putting the lash upon His back, or how He could love the man, and die for him, who put the nails through the palms of His hands and feet; but I imagine that if you had been back there near the sepulchre when Jesus arose from the dead, you would have heard Him say, "Where is the man who plaited the crown of thorns and placed them upon my brow?  I want to tell him that I died for him, that I suffered the torments of the damned for him."

--E. W. Kenyon

Established in Grace 8/20 Thursday Thoughts

Think of it!  We are being established in grace.
What is grace?  It is love pouring itself out upon the graceless and the unworthy.
The Spirit gave to us a marvelous interpretation of grace in Romans 4:4,5.  "No to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.  But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness." 

--E. W. Kenyon

You Can Stand 8/19 Wednesday Wisdom

Eternal Life is the Nature and Life of the Father.  You have that now.  You have become, by the New Creation, by the impartation of God's very Nature, the righteousness of God in Christ.
Few people are established in that.  Few appreciate or understand it, or have ever entered into its fullness.
It means that you can stand in the Father's presence, just as Jesus, without the sense of inferiority, that you can stand in the presence of Satan and all his works with the same fearless grace that Jesus had.  (II Corinthians 2:14-15.) 

Established in Love 8/18 Tuesday Truth

"I am thy God.  I am your Father.  I am your Strength. I am your Wisdom and your Ability.:"  (II Corinthians 3:4-6.)
When you are established in that, fixed and settled in it, you become a world-ruler in the spiritual realm.  Men can feel the effect of your prayer life in Europe, Asia and Africa.  (John 14:13-14.)  The demons that rule the warring elements of Europe and Africa are afraid of you, and they are afraid that you will turn the mighty influence of your lips and prayers against them.  (John 15:7.)  You are established at last in the very heart of God -- established in Love.

--E.W. Kenyon 

What More Do You Want? 8/16 Monday Meditation

Can't you hear Him whisper (Isaiah 41:10), "Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee:  yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."  What more do you want?

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Established in the Truth 8/13 Thursday Thoughts

I will not be posting a "Friday Faith" this week.
Philippians 4:19, "And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus."
You are so established in that truth that you never worry about your finances any more.  Your Father is now meeting your obligations.  You and He are laboring together.  (Matthew 6:27-34.)

-- E.W. Kenyon

Vine and Branches 8/12 Wednesday Wisdom

John 15:5, "I am the vine and ye are the branches."No one can touch a branch without hurting the vine.  The vine and the branch are one.  You are a part of Him, and He is a part of you.  He is taking care of you.  You are established in this truth.  

--E.W. Kenyon 

Shadow of the Rock 8/11 Tuesday Truth

[Romans 8:35]  "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"Rest under the shadow of that great Rock in this weary land; and you hear someone saying, "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us."
You know who you are, what you are.  (I John 3:2)  You know Who is backing you up, Who is protecting you.  For it is God who is at work within you working and willing His own precious will.  (Philippians 2:13.)

-- E.W. Kenyon

God Is For You 8/10 Monday Meditation

Romans 8:31-38:  "If God is for us, who is against us?"  We should be established in that.You know that scripture is yours. You know that God is for you.  You know that He is your Father and that He gave up His Son to die for us; and you know that He has given us His own nature, His own life.  (I John 5:12-13.)

-- E.W. Kenyon

Established in the Truth 8/7 Friday Faith

Every believer should be established in this truth.  So many are established in weakness; they live under the shadow of it.  Other are established in sickness and infirmities.  (James 5:14-17.)
Others are established in fear, in the sense of sin, the sense of lack and inability.  (Isaiah 41:10.)
We want to learn to be established in the Word.
II Peter 1:12, "Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you."

-- E.W.Kenyon  

Every Believer Should Know... 8/6 Thursday Thoughts

Every believer should know what the Name of Jesus can mean to him in his daily life, so that no matter what happens, he is a victor, a conqueror.  (John 16:24)
In my name ye shall cast out demons."  (Mark 16:17-20)
You can cast out all demons if you cast out a demon, and you can cast out the work of a demon. 

-- E.W. Kenyon

Established, Settled, Fixed 8/5 Wednesday Wisdom

Every believer owes it to himself to be established in the Word, to be settled and fixed so that he will not be wafted about by every wind and storm.  (Ephesians 4:14-16)He should know what he is in Christ, know it so thoroughly that no matter what happens he stands unruffled, unaffected.  (Ephesians 1:3-7
He should know what Christ is to him, and what He has done for him, and what He is doing for him now.  (I Corinthians 1:30; Philippians 1:16; and Hebrews 7:25) 

-- E.W. Kenyon

Blessed With Every Blessing 8/4 Tuesday Truth

Ephesians 1:3, "Blessed be the God and Father of my Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ."
How it thrills the heart!  He has blessed us with the fullness of Himself.  As the air is saturated with moisture, so your spirit and body are saturated with God.  You have received the gift of grace which means the unveiling of the Father's very purpose in you in such abundance that people are affected by what you say.
You are rooted and grounded in love.  Men are affected by it; selfishness shrinks and shrivels n the presence of this love life in you.

--E.W. Kenyon

The Test of the New Birth 8/3 Monday Meditation

The test of the New Birth is this Love Life.  How beautiful it would be if we were actually swallowed up of love.  That is what it means -- swallowed up of life, and life is love.
It would solve the home problem, wouldn't it?  There would be no quarreling or bitterness.  What a heavenly atmosphere the children would grow up in; they would never hear an unkind word or a bitter criticism.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Swallowed Up in His Life 7/31 Friday Faith

May I give you another scripture?  "I am come that ye might have life and have it abundantly (or in abundance)" (John 10:10).The Father wants you to have the abundance of His Nature.  He wants your whole spirit and soul swallowed up in His Life.  (II Corinthians 5:4)

--E.W. Kenyon 

Inside You 7/30 Thursday Thoughts

You must not forget that you have Him inside you, the One Who raised Jesus from the dead.  He is actually there.Read Ephesians over and over again until it prevails in your life; then whisper, "God is working in me according to His ability (for that word power means ability).  His grace, His love, His Life is effectually working in me."

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Strength of Your Being 7/29 Wednesday Wisdom

Begin to live the Word.  Begin to take your place right now as a son or daughter in the family.  You whisper, "Father, I am what You say I am.  I can do what You say I can do in Christ.  I can do all things in Him Who strengtheneth me" (Phil. 4:13)
God is the very strength of your being now.  (Psalm 27:1; Philippians 4:13)

-- E. W. Kenyon

Satan's Bundle 7/28 Tuesday Truth

If Satan has been adroit enough to deceive us and to bring along a bundle of diseases and place them at our door and tell us that they are our diseases, that they have our names on them, and we are unwise enough to sign up for them, that is unfortunate.  Now we are instructed, however, and we know the truth.We say, "Satan, whose diseases are these?"
He says, "They are yours."
We say, "We beg your pardon.  Our diseases were borne by Jesus.  If you have any diseases, sir, they are your own; and in the Name of Jesus, I command you to take them away."
We hold fast to our confession that "surely He hath borne our sicknesses and carried our diseases"; and because He did it, it is well done and perfectly done; so we hold fast to that confession.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

New Creation - Perfect 7/17 Monday Meditation

...With that New Creation is a perfect righteousness.  With that perfect righteousness is perfect fellowship, and with that perfect fellowship is absolute dominion over the adversary in the Name of Jesus Christ.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Persecuted for Righteousness 7/24 Friday Faith

Matthew 5:10, "Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for their is the kingdom of heaven."
Men won't persecute you for your righteousness; that will be Satan.  He will bring scandal upon your life.  He will make you look unrighteous.  When he cannot make you to be unrighteous, he will scandalize you.
But you remember Isaiah 54:17, "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.
... They can rob you of your reputation, but they cannot touch your spirit.  You stand invincible.  You are the righteousness of God in Christ.

--E. W. Kenyon

"In Christ" 7/23 Thursday Thoughts

"Wherefore if any man is in Christ. ..."  Every man is in Christ who has acknowledged Him as Saviour and Lord.  That expression, "in Christ," is a legal phrase. It means that I have received that Nature and Life of God into my spirit and that I am now a branch of the Vine.  It means that the old things of my past life have stopped being and that all things have become new; and all these things are of God Who has reconciled me to Himself.  There could be no reconciliation without a New Creation.

-- E.W. Kenyon

New Creation 7/22 Wednesday Wisdom

You are a New Creation.  If all you ever had was forgiveness of sins, Satan could claim you for his own.  He could say, "You are mine."  But now he has been defeated.  He looks upon you as  a New Creation, a branch of the Vine, Jesus, Who conquered him.
The only thing he can do now is to hinder that branch from bearing fruit.

--E.W. Kenyon 

When I Walk in Love 7/21 Tuesday Truth

So long as I walk in love, Satan is a defeated being as far as I am concerned.  When I step out of love, I step over into no man's land, where Satan has access to me.  When I walk in the light as He is in the light, Satan has no dominion over me.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Let Him 7/20 Monday Meditation

Let Him have His way with you.  Let Him govern you.  Don't be afraid of Him.  No one loves you as He loves you.  He is the strength of your life.

- E.W. Kenyon 

A Will of Love 7/17 Friday Faith

We have thought that the Father's will would be hard, and we shrank from doing it.  But, instead, it is a will of Love.  As you walk in the Father's Will, you always walk in the Light.  You will never injure anyone.  Your words will be saturated with love.  You will walk in the light, for His will is the Light. You will walk in Love, for His will is Love.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

Protector, Caretaker, Shield 7/16 Thursday Thoughts

You can almost hear Paul say, "My God shall supply every need of yours" (Philippians 4:19).Or, Ephesians 1:3, "Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ."
He is my Protector and Caretaker.  He is my Shield.  No enemy can touch me.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

The Shepherd's Responsibility 7/15 Wednesday Wisdom

The shepherd is responsible for the protection of the sheep. He is responsible for their food and water, and so my Shepherd, Jesus, says, "I am the Bread of Life. He that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst."
How that fits into the thought of the shepherd.  He leads me down where the waters are gentle and quiet.  He takes me back then where the alfalfa is rich.  In every place in life He cares for me.

-- E.W. Kenyon 

What He Did... 7/14 Tuesday Truth

What He did in the dead body of Jesus, He can do in your life.  He can take your lips with God's Words filling them, and lead men to Christ, heal the sick, cast out demons, break the dominion of sin and fear over the minds of men and women.
His Words in your lips make you a master of demons.  That is a Superman! 

The Family of Overcomers 7/13 Monday Meditation

Our faith took us into the family of overcomers.  Our faith made us sons and daughters of God.  Our faith has made us the very righteousness of God, has made us New Creations of God.
"And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?"

-- E.W. Kenyon 

You Are His Child 7/10 Friday Faith

You are His child; you are in His family; you are a branch of the Vine. He is the Husbandman.  He cares for the vineyard.  He knows about it.  You are His fruit-producer.  You are His connection with the unsaved world.  You are His connection with the church and the people in your community.  You have His life, His nature.  You have His light and wisdom. You have His love. You have Him.  He lives in you.  By giving Him His place, you let Him have freedom in you. -- E.W. Kenyon 

You Rest in Him 7/9 Thursday Thoughts

Your Heavenly Father knows your needs, knows your surroundings, the opposition, knows the whole thing.You rest in Him.  

--E.W. Kenyon

Ability to Stand 7/8 Wednesday Wisdom

Righteousness means your ability to stand in the Father's presence with no sense of guilt or inferiority. 
He made you righteous, and you do not discredit what He has made you to be.  You are what he says you are.

--E.W. Kenyon 

God Is Your Supply 7/7 Tuesday Truth

Philippians 4:19, "And my God shall supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."  
God is your supply.  Its limit is His will.  His will only limits your ability.  "My Father does supply," you whisper over and over again.

-- E.W. Kenyon

The Secret of Living 7/6 Monday Meditation

When one is master of circumstances, he has taken on his rights and privileges in Christ.  The Word has become a reality.  He says fearlessly, "I can do anything that my Father wishes me to do, because greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world." 
Just as Jesus said, "I came down from God," you say, "I am from God, and I am an overcomer; because greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world" (I John 4:4).
So you see the secret of living is living in His Word.  That is His will.

-- E.W. Kenyon

God, Ltd. 7/3 Friday Faith

Switching to John G. Lake for a day.  I've posted this before, but I ran across it on Facebook today and decided it's time to rerun it.

Have you been in Canada? Do you know when I went in Canada, there was one thing that struck me peculiarly. The signs would read, "John Brown, Limited." Everywhere I see that sign.  I was holding meetings in the old St. Andrews Church in Sydney. I asked them one night why they did not put their national symbol on their churches. They wondered what I meant. I said, "every other business house is LTD; why don't you put it over the church?" An old Scotchman said, "We don't have to. Everybody knows it."

Limited? Sure it is limited. Limit God, limit ourselves, limit His grace, limit the Word. Sure, our God is a little bit of a god. Most of us could carry Him in our vest pocket, and it wouldn't bulge the pocket. Our God with the "LTD" on Him.

Brother, sister, that challenge comes to us today to let God loose.

Jesus Takes It Over 7/2 Thursday Thoughts

When you pray in that Name, Jesus takes it over.  Then it is in His care.  It is no longer your burden as long as you do not repudiate it by a wrong confession [doubt].  He is your standby.  Your prayer is based upon His Word.  It is His business to make it good.

--E.W. Kenyon

As Good As An Answer 7/1 Wednesday Wisdom

 
I John 5:14,15, "And this is the boldness which we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us: and if we know that He heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of Him."
That word, "boldness," is "successful."  It means a fearless confidence.  We prayed according to His will.  Then we are assured that He heard us; and if He hears, that is as good as an answer. 

-- E.W. Kenyon

Signs of the Second Coming #8 (final) 6/30 Tuesday Truth

8. The last days are a time for the true people of God to engage in extravagant asking. Up to this present time, the Lord's word is for us, "Hitherto ye have asked nothing." Surely you people that have been asking great things from God for a long time would be amazed if you entered into it with clear knowledge that it is the Master, it is Jesus, who has such knowledge of the mightiness of the power of the Father, of the joint union with Him, that nothing is impossible for you to ask. Surely it is He only Who could say, "Hitherto you have asked nothing." So God means me to press you another step forward. Begin to believe on extravagant asking, believing that God is pleased when you ask large things

Signs of the Second Coming #7 6/29 Monday Meditation

7. As Churches turn away from the Holy Spirit many believers go to false teachers. The secret of many people going into Christian Science [replace with names of current religious groups] is a barren church that had not the Holy Ghost. Christian Science exists because the churches have a barren place because they haven't the Holy Ghost. There would be no room for Christian Science if the churches were filled with the Holy Ghost.

-- Smith Wigglesworth  

Signs of the Second Coming #5-6 6/26 Friday Faith

5. The world will look to worship a man and will overlook his faults to get him into power. These people are determined to have a man. They know someone has to come. We know Who He is that is coming. They begin to make a man. So they find a man in India, they polish him up as much as they can, and they make him as—well, in appearance, but you know we are told by the Lord that there is soft clothing that goes onto wolves' backs.

 

6. That people believe that certain preachers are of God simply because of their crowds and their buildings. A person said to me, "You see, the Christian Scientists must be right—look at the beautiful buildings. Look at all the people following them." Yes, everybody can belong to it. You can go to any brother you like, you can go to any theater you like, you can go to any race course you like, you can be mixed up with the rest of the people in your life and still be a Christian Scientist. You can have the devil right and left and anywhere, and still belong to Christian Science.  [Substitute some of the churches of today.]

--Smith Wigglesworth