Nothing Can Satisfy But the Word 12/30 Friday Faith

Wishing you a blessed new year. This is the last post until January 3.

You will find that there is no peace, no help, no source of strength, no power, no life, nothing can satisfy the cry of the child of God but the Word of God. God has a special way of satisfying the cry of His children. He is waiting to open to us the windows of heaven until He has so moved in the depths of our hearts that everything unlike Himself has been destroyed... God want s you to be filled. My brother, my sister, God wants you today to be like a watered garden, filled with the fragrance of his own heavenly joy, till at last you have touched immensity. The Son of God came for no other purpose than to lift and lift, to mold and fashion and remold, until we are just after His mind.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Satisfied With a Thimbleful 12/29 Thursday Thougths

Some people only come with a very small thought concerning God's fullness, and a lot of people are satisfied with a thimbleful, and you can just imagine God saying, "Oh, if they only knew how much they could take away!"  Other people come with a larger vessel, and they go away satisfied, but you can feel how much God is longing for us to have such a desire for more, such a longing as only God Himself can satisfy.


--Smith Wigglesworth

Enter Into the Promises 12/28 Wednesday Wisdom

Enter into the promises of God.  It is your inheritance.  You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.  I pray that you may be so filled with Him that it will not be possible for you to move without a revival of some kind resulting.


-- Smith Wigglesworth

Tell What God Has Done 12/27 Tuesday Truth

That is the way with people today.  They get saved and healed and they don't tell it out for the glory of God. How is it that people don't tell what God has done for them?

--Smith Wigglesworth

A Modern Christmas Story 12/23 Friday Faith

I'm going to break with my customary quotes and share this touching story from Assemblies of God missionaries to Germany, Steve and Astrid Dunn, about an encounter with a young Muslim refugee girl.

This will be my last post until Tuesday.  May God bless you and your family richly this Christmas season. 

 

Christmas Story:Remember *Ayshe, the little Kurdish girl from our last newsletter? On Friday we had our Royal Ranger Christmas meeting. Four of us leaders did a theater sketch. Three prophets came out of a tent portraying three prophets from the Old Testament. I was then the last person to come out of the tent and was a shepherd from Bethlehem. I explained what happened on that holy night so many years ago and how the shepherds shook with fear at the sight of the Angel of the Lord: “What could that be,” I shouted, “so big, so powerful, so bright?”

*Ayshe raised her hand excitedly and I was curious to hear what she would say. She shouted back with a questioning voice: “…a winter monster?” Everyone began to laugh. It was then that I realized that she had never heard the story before. Later, while everyone else was eating hotdogs, I saw *Ayshe kneeling alone before the manger scene that was in the tent. She held the plastic lamb figure on her lap and was tenderly stroking it. I went and sat next to her.

“Tell me the story again,” she asked. “Was the baby a boy or a girl?”
“He was a boy,” I answered.”
“What was his name?”
 “Jesus… and He loves you...”

Tomorrow it will be Sunday. We will be having our Christmas Brunch service at the Moosburg church. *Ayshe will be coming with her family and they are bringing two uncles and an aunt. *Ayshe asked me if I will be sharing the story on Sunday so they can hear it as well.
 
Christmas: it is all about the Story…
 
May the joy that the angels proclaimed and the peace that God did promise on that holy night so many years ago, be yours. We wish you God’s blessings for this Christmas season and the new year to come!
 
Love and greetings from Germany!
Steve and Astrid (Dunn)

My Heavenly Bank 12/22 Thursday Thoughts

My heavenly Bank, my Heavenly Bank,
The House of God's treasure and store;
I have plenty up there -- I'm a real millionaire,
And I will go poor no more.


---quoted by Smith Wigglesworth

Prayers in Vain 12/21 Wednesday Wisdom

Beloved, we should recognize that our prayers are in vain unless we really expect what we ask to be granted to us.  "The Word profited nothing, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it."

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Make Inroads Into the Devil's Camp 12/20 Tuesday Truth

(review and continuation from Monday):  The question is whether we are going to believe God, or the devil, or ourselves.  God says  [our sins] are [past], cleansed, gone!  You cannot go on with God till you stand on His Word as "cleansed," with the heart made pure.  Standing on this blessed Rock, you can step forward and make inroads into the devil's camp, and overthrow all his tactics, and bring desolation to his power as you realize that your sin is done and finished with.


--Smith Wigglesworth

God Has Forgotten Them 12/19 Monday Meditation

The devil brings back to people's minds those things which they did so long ago, and there they are, thinking about them day and night! There are two things certain, and a third thing which is more valuable than either of the two.  One is that you never forget them; and the third is that God has forgotten them.  The question is whether we are going to believe God, or the devil, or ourselves.  God says they are passed, cleansed, gone!   (to be continued)

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Changed by a Heavenly Power 12/16 Friday Faith

And now you become changed by a heavenly power existing in an earthly body; a power that can never die; it can never see corruption, and it cannot be lost.  If you are born of God, you  are born of the power of the Word and not of man.  I want you to see that you are born of a power which exists in you, a power of which God took and made the world that you are in.  It is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus that make us free from the law of sin and death.  Did you accept it?

--Smith Wigglesworth

Born of an Incorruptible Power 12/15 Thursday Thoughts

You are born of an incorruptible power -- the power of God's Word -- by His personality and His nature.  You are begotten of God and are not your own.  You are now incarnated; and you can believe that you have passed from death unto life and become an heir of God, a joint-heir with Christ, in a measure that you believe His Word.  The natural flesh has been changed for a new order.

--Smith Wigglesworth

To Will and To Do 12/14 Wednesday Wisdom

We must see that we live in the place where we say, "What wilt Thou have me to do?" and are in the place where He can work in us to will and to do of His good pleasure.


--Smith Wigglesworth

The Secret for the Future 12/13 Tuesday Truth

The secret for the future is living and moving in the power of the Holy Ghost.  One thing I rejoice in is that there need not be an hour or a moment when I do not know the Holy Ghost is upon me.  Oh, this glorious life in God is beyond expression; it is God manifest in the flesh... This should be our continual life.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Work of Intercession 12/12 Monday Meditation

I believe we have yet to learn what it would be with a Pentecostal Church in England that understood truly the work of intercession.  I believe God the Holy Ghost wants to teach us that it is not only the people on the platform who can move things by prayer.  You people, the Lord can move things though you.  We have to learn the power of the breath of the Holy Ghost.  If I am filled with the Holy Ghost, He will formulate the word that will come into my heart. 

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Romans 8:26

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Never Look Down 12/9 Friday Faith

Never look down, because then you will only see the ground and miss the vision.  All blessings come from above; therefore keep your eye on Jesus.  Never weary.  If you do not fall out by the way, He will be with you to strengthen you in the way.  Hallelujah!

 

--Smith Wigglesworth

I Have a Jesus Like That 12/8 Thursday Thoughts

I HAVE A JESUS LIKE THAT, who can speak the word, and the thing is done; I have a Jesus indwelling me and vitalizing me with a faith that believes it is true; I have a Jesus within me who has never let me get faintheated or weary.  Let us press on in faith along the line of God's will, and the outpouring which we have longed to see will come. 

 

--Smith Wigglesworth

If You Have Lost the Vision 12/7 Wednesday Wisdom

To what profit will it be if we hold anything back from Him who gives us a thousand times more than ever He asks from us?  In Hebrews 2 He says He is going ot bring many sons to glory.  It means that He is going to clothe them with  His glory.  Let that be your vision.  If you have lost the vision, He is tender to those who cry to Him; from the broken heart HE NEVER TURNS AWAY, and they that seek Him with a whole heart will find Him.

 

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Vision of the Glory of God 12/6 Tuesday Truth

You have no need to be constantly talking of what you are going to appear like in the glory.  The chief thing you are to watch is that you realize within yourself a deeper manifestation of the power of God today than yesterday, that you have something more clear today of the mind of the Spirit than you had the day before, that nothing comes between you and God to cloud your mind.  You are to see a VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD more today than yesterday, and to be living in such a state of bliss that it is heavenly to live.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Deluge of the Spirit 12/5 Monday Meditation

Some people get a wrong notion of the baptism [of the Holy Spirit].  The baptism is nothing less than the third person of the blessed Trinity coming down from the glory, the executive Spirit of the triune God indwelling your body, revealing the truth to you, and causing you to sometimes say "Ah!" till your bowels yearn with compassion, as Jesus yearned,  to travail as He travailed, to mourn as He mourned, to groan as He groaned.  It cannot be otherwise with you.  You cannot get this thing along a merely passive line.  It does not come that way.  But, glory be to God, it does come.  O that God might bring from our hearts the cry for such a DELUGE OF THE SPIRIT that we could not get away until we were ready for Him to fulfill His purpose in us and for us.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

This is my 1505th post.  (I forgot to watch when I was nearing 1500).  Plus I sent out Lep's Faith Quotes as an email for a few years before I began posting.


Nehemiah stood before the king because of trouble in Jerusalem which had nigh broken his heart.  He was sorrowful, and it affected his countenance; but he was so near to God that he could say:  "I have communed with the God of heaven."  And if we believers are to go forth and fulfill God's purpose with us, the Holy Spirit must be constantly filling us and moving upon us until our whole being is on fire with the presence and power of God.  That is the order of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.  The man is then ready for every emergency.

--Smith Wigglesworth