He'll Never Forget to Keep Me 12/29 Friday Faith

Who are of the tribe of Abraham?  All who believe in Jesus Christ are the seed of faith, Abraham's seed.  If we dare come believing, God will heal, God will restore, will lift the burden and wake us up to real overcoming faith.  Look up!  Take courage!  Jesus has shaken the foundations of death and darkness.  He fighteth for you and there is none like Him.  He is the great I AM.  His name is above every name.  As we believe we are lifted into a place of rest, a place of conformity to Him.  He says to us as He did to Abraham, "...I will bless thee... and thou shalt be a blessing" (Genesis 12:2).  He says to us as He did to His people of old, "With lovingkindness have I drawn thee." Hallelujah!  "He'll never forget to keep me, He'll never forget to keep me; my Father has many dear children, but He'll never forget to keep me."  Believe it.  He will never forget.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Never Ordinary Again 12/28 Thursday Thoughts

The man that is baptized in the Holy Ghost is baptized in a new order altogether.  It cannot be that you shall ever be ordinary after that.  You are on an extraordinary plane, you are brought into line with the mind of God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

What Is It to Believe? 12/27 Wednesday Wisdom

"Greater works than these shall ye do."  You say, "How?"  Only believe.  What is it to believe?  It is to have such confidence in what the Lord said that we take Him at His Word because He said it.

--Smith Wigglesworth

It Was a Glorious Day 12/22 Friday Faith

This will be my last post until December 27.  Have a blessed Christmas !!!

It was a wonderful day when Jesus left the glory.  I can imagine all the angels and God the Father and all heaven so wonderfully stirred that day when the angels were sent to tell that wonderful story:  "Peace on earth and good will to men."  It was a glorious day when they beheld the Babe for the first time and God was looking on.  What happened after that day and until He was thirty years old I suppose it would take a big book to put it all in.  It was a working up to a great climax.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Greater Works 12/21 Thursday Thoughts

What I want to impress upon you is that we must see these greater works that the Lord promised we should see.  Listen, "Greater works than these shall ye do, because I go to My Father. "And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son."  What is it that you want?  "Whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name, that will I do."  Glory to God.  Is there any purpose in it?  Yes, "that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

--Smith Wigglesworth

God Is Greater 12/20 Wednesday Wisdom

The Word of God cannot fail, because it is the living Word.  Listen to the words of Jesus as He says, "Greater works than these shall ye do."  I know as truly as I stand upon this platform that we shall see the rising tide of blessing and divine healing go forth with greater power, but Satan will always try to hinder the real word of God.  Whenever the power of God is being manifested, Satan will be there trying to upset it.  Satanic forces will be there, but God is greater.

--Smith Wigglesworth

God Never Fails 12/19 Tuesday Truth

God says, "Not one word shall fail, of all that I have promised."  [I Kings 8:56]  Sometimes we fail, but God never does.  Hallelujah.

--Smith Wigglesworth

So Filled With the Power of God 12/18 Monday Meditation

God meant to work out His purpose, that we should loose people who were bound with graveclothes, and that they should be set free by the power of God.  We should be so filled with the power of God that we should not know what it is to have a body.  Hallelujah!

--Smith Wigglesworth

More Than Overcomers 12/15 Friday Faith

Praise God, it is a fact!  Jesus is in our body, and He is the express image of God, and He has come to our human weaknesses to change them and us into a divine substance so that by the power of His might we may not only overcome, but rejoice in the fact that we are more than overcomers.  God wants you to have the last part -- more than overcomers!

--Smith Wigglesworth

Daring For God 12/14 Thursday Thoughts

We are a back number [outdated magazine] if we have to pray for power, if we have to wait until we feel a sense of His presence.  The baptism of the Holy Ghost should empower you for any emergency.  "We shall have power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you."  Within you there is a greater power than there is in the world.  Oh, to be awakened out of our unbelief into a place of daring for God!

--Smith Wigglesworth

What Christians Should Know About Hanukkah 12/13 Wednesday Wisdom

Hanukkah began Tuesday evening, December 12, and continues for eight days.  Here is an article for those of you who are interested in the Jewish roots of Christianity and are willing to read something longer my usual posts.

WHAT CHRISTIANS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HANUKKAH 
by Micheal Rydelnik

https://www.moodyglobal.org/stories/global/2017/the-festival-of-lights-what-christians-should-know-about-chanukah/?utm_campaign=Reach%20-%20December%202017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua

A young Messianic Jewish couple sent their first child to a Christian school for kindergarten. The teacher asked several moms to help with the class Christmas party by bringing cookies. So the Messianic mom volunteered, saying she would also like to bake and bring Chanukah cookies.
This makes perfect sense since Jewish followers of Jesus generally observe both the festival of Chanukah (or Hanukkah) and the birth of the Messiah. But after the sign-up was complete, the kindergarten teacher sent the mom an email, writing that since this was a Christian school, only Christian holidays were allowed to be observed.
Even after the mom tried to explain the significance of Chanukah for Christians, the teacher and school administration remained adamant. They felt the children should not learn about Chanukah, nor should they eat Chanukah treats.
What Christians don’t know about Chanukah
Unfortunately, this well-intentioned teacher is emblematic of what is all too common among Christians: we often fail to understand the Jewish roots of our faith and remain ignorant about the Jewish people. And you might wonder as well: Why would Chanukah cookies be appropriate for a Christian school? Why should Christians learn about or even celebrate Chanukah?
Find out what every Christian should know about Chanukah
To begin with, the events of Chanukah were predicted in the Bible. In Daniel 8, the prophet predicted the rise of “a fierce-looking king, a master of intrigue” who will “cause astounding devastation” and “destroy those who are mighty, the holy people” (vv. 23–24).
Additionally, he will “stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power” (v. 25). This passage was written about Antiochus IV, who attempted to destroy the Jewish people and the observance of their biblical faith in 167 BC. He was opposed not just to the people but to their future king, the Messiah Himself.
Daniel 11:31 also speaks of Antiochus, saying that he and “his armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.” This refers to Antiochus’s offering of a swine to Zeus on the altar of the Temple and his prohibition against worship of the true God of Israel.
Daniel 11:32 says that “the people who know their God will firmly resist him.” This refers to the Maccabees, who rose up and, by the hand of God, defeated Antiochus’s army and rededicated the Temple for worship, resulting in the establishment of the festival of Chanukah. In fact, the word Chanukah means “dedication” and commemorates this rededication of the Temple.
Chanukah shows how God preserved the Jewish people
But that’s not the only reason that Christians should know about and honor this traditionally Jewish celebration. The festival of Chanukah reminds us that without it, there would be no Christmas. Antiochus was a genocidal maniac who wanted to destroy the Jewish people. He’s not the first, nor is he the last. If he succeeded, then Jesus—the son of David and the son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1)—would not have been born.
Chanukah reminds us that God preserved the Jewish people so that the Jewish Messiah could be born. The angel told Mary, “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end” (Luke 1:32–33).
Jesus attended a Chanukah celebration
Beyond these reasons, one more significant reason remains. We often ask ourselves, What would Jesus do? Well, John 10:22–23 tells us what Jesus actually did. It says, “Then came the Festival of Dedication (Chanukah) at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple courts . . .”  Jesus left Galilee to celebrate Chanukah in Jerusalem. It was there He revealed His own deity, declaring, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30).
Certainly there are good reasons for followers of Jesus (even those who are not Jewish) to learn about Chanukah, to celebrate it, and yes, even to have five-year-old children in a Christian school enjoy some crunchy and sweet Chanukah cookies.
May you and your loved ones enjoy both Chanukah and Christmas this December.

A Full Burnt Offering for God 12/12 Tuesday Truth

Nothing less will please the Lord, only a constant, full burnt offering for God, where He is in absolute and utter authority over my whole being, until I am living, thinking, acting in the power of the Holy Ghost.  Praise the Lord!

--Smith Wigglesworth

Holy Ghost Has Got Me 12/11 Monday Meditation

It is a tremendous thought for me to know that I had received the Holy Ghost, but I am coming to a great wonderment of splendor to know that the Holy Ghost has at last got me!

--Smith Wigglesworth

Ready for Everything 12/8 Friday Faith

There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus -- no cloud -- nothing between -- oh the thrill of it.  Hidden with Christ in God -- immersed, covered -- nothing can break through. It is the grace of God to be here, and as sure as we are here we shall be there.  Receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved...  There is something very beautiful about being in Christ in God, ready for everything -- ready!

--Smith Wigglesworth

Ours Is an Abundant God 12/7 Thursday Thoughts

Do you not know that ours is an abundant God, who is able to do for us far exceeding and abundantly above all that we can ask or think?  We are illuminated and quickened by the Spirit, looking forward to a day of rapture when we will be caught up and lifted into the presence of God.  God's lines are magnitude--wonderful and glorious!

--Smith Wigglesworth

Godlikeness to Attain 12/6 Wednesday Wisdom

Brother, sister, I tell you there is a redemption, there is an atonement in Christ, a personality of Christ to dwell in you; there is a Godlikeness for you to attain unto; a blessed resemblance of Christ, of "God in you" that shall not fail if you believe the Word of God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

One Little Bit of Faith 12/5 Tuesday Truth

It is one thing to read the Word of God, another thing to believe it.  It is possible to be real and earnest and have zeal and fastings and yet not to have faith.  And do you not know that one little bit of faith which can only come through the Word of God is worth more than all your cryings -- all your rolling on the floor -- all your screaming and everything; but beloved, God is better than anything.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Have We Been With Jesus? 12/4 Monday Meditation

Directly after the baptism of the Holy Ghost came, those crooked, indifferent and peculiar disciples were transformed till one day Peter and John came down and mixed with the people who said;  "They are unlearned and ignorant but we see that they have been with Him."  Can they say that about us?  Have we been with Jesus?  Do not think you will comfort people by singing wonderful hymns -- they are lovely.  Do not think you will comfort people any other way but by the Word of God being made manifest in that you have been with Jesus.

--Smith Wigglesworth

A God of Immensity 12/1 Friday Faith

...When I know that God can take my weakness and make it power; when He can take our weakness and depravity and make us holy, then I know I have a God of immensity

--Smith Wigglesworth

Great God, Little Devil 11/30 Thursday Thoughts

If you have a great God, you will have a little devil; if you have a big devil, you will have a little God, so may the Lord let us see that we must be so full of the order of the Spirit of life that we are always overcoming him which had the power of death --  the devil.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Full of the Manifestation of the Power of God 11/29 Wednesday Wisdom

We ought to be so full of the manifestation of the power of God that in the Name of Jesus we can absolutely destroy the power of Satan.  We are in the world -- not of it.  He overcame it, and to subdue it unto God we are in the world -- overcomers.  We are nothing but in Christ we are more than conquerors through the blood -- more than a match for satanic powers on every line.

--Smith Wigglesworth

You Have Got to Decide 11/28 Tuesday Truth

Paul goes so far as to say that some people have very strange ideas of who will be ready for the coming of the Kingdom.  All in Christ will be ready, and you have got to decide whether you are in that or not.  The Scripture says in the first verse of Romans eighth chapter:  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
If you are there -- Praise the Lord!  That is a good position.  I pray the Lord that He will bring us all into that place -- what a wonder it will be.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Latter Rain 11/27 Monday Meditation

In these last days God will pour out upon all flesh the Latter Rain, and I believe all flesh will feel the effects of it.  It will not be possible for anyone to miss it.  They may refuse it, but it will be there for the taking, and I believe God would have us to see that the Latter Rain has begun to fall.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Things To Be Thankful For 11/22 Wednesday Wisdom

This will be the last post until Monday, November 27, because everyone will be traveling, shopping, and very busy over the Thanksgiving holiday.  Have a happy Thanksgiving!

Here are some things to be thankful for that we often don't think of.  I repeat these verses daily, and I always advise anyone whom I anoint for healing to repeat this passage several times a day:

Psalm 103:1-5New King James Version (NKJV)

Praise for the Lord’s Mercies

A Psalm of David.

103 Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
² Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
³ Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
⁴ Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
⁵ Who satisfies your mouth with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

No Day Is Like the Present

God has for us wonderful things.  Many days in the past have been wonderful, but no day is like the present. The Holy Ghost lifting us into His presence, the power flowing, our whole being flaming with the glory of God.  Here is God's divine plan for humanity when the Holy Ghost has come. Today we are nearer the goal, the vision is clearer, the Holy Ghost bringing us into the treasure of the Most High.

--Smith Wigglesworth

No Room For Weakness 11/20 Monday Meditation

There is no room for weakness if we see the mighty incoming life through the Spirit.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Lord, I Believe 11/17 Friday Faith

The opportunity comes to you now to be healed.  Will you believe?  Will you touch Him?  There is something in a living faith that is different from anything else. I have seen marvelous things accomplished just because people said, "Lord, I believe."

--Smith Wigglesworth

This Same Jesus Today 11/16 Thursday Thoughts

"And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.  And Jesus went with him..." (Mark 5:23, 24).  I want you to know that this same Jesus is in the midst of His people today.  He is right here with His ministry of power and blessing.

--Smith Wigglesworth

A New Sight of Jesus 11/8 Wednesday Wisdom

Back from Florida, from visiting one of our group members.

I believe that God, the Holy Ghost, wants to reveal the fulness of redemption through the power of Christ's atonement on Calvary until every soul shall get a new sight of Jesus, the Lamb of God.  He is lovely.  He is altogether lovely...  You talk about being decked with the rarest garments, but oh, brother, He could weep with those who weep.  He could have compassion on all.  There were none that missed His eye.

--Smith Wigglesworth

His Mighty Strength 11/10 Friday Faith

We never know how weak we are until we are covered by His mighty strength -- not to fail -- but to stand for God and having done all to stand, Jesus will carry us through.

--Smith Wigglesworth

I will not be posting for Monday or Tuesday, as I will be on vacation.

Aflame by the Power of God 11/9 Thursday Thoughts

It is a poor people who cannot praise the Lord.  Suppression of praise never disturbs the devil.  God wants firebrands -- lives aflame by the power of God.  God has made me so hungry. I never was so hungry and thirsty after God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

I will not be posting for Monday and Tuesday, as I will be on vacation.

No Dreary Days 11/8 Wednesday Wisdom

If I live in the Spirit, I have no dreary days.  Some days the sun shines more, but it makes no difference.

--Smith Wigglesworth

I received this comment from a lady in my Facebook group who is an internet radio pastor:

I heard Norval Hayes say years ago that he never had any bad Monday's - it was a decision he made. After Sunday services, the devil used to work me over on Monday and point out everything I did wrong, or what I should have done that I didn't. That made my Monday's a bad day. After hearing Norval, I made a decision I wasn't having any more bad Monday's, I put a stop to the devil's accusations. I had to work at it for awhile, but I can't remember the last time I had a bad Monday, or a bad day any day for that matter! The truth set me free. Thank you for this post.

Your "I" Must Be Knocked Out 11/7 Tuesday Truth

The greatest opportunity God has afforded to man -- submit to Almighty God.  The human spirit may be in great activity in a person who has offered -- Your "I" must be knocked out and your personality be fully surrendered to God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Are You At Your Wit's End? 11/6 Monday Meditation

Are you at your wit's end, or in a tried place...?  Brothers and sisters, there is a place where God puts you in a place, where you are in Him, however severe the storm or strain may come.

--Smith Wigglesworth

I Have Failed 1000 Times 11/3 Friday Faith

"I have failed a thousand times," you say.  Never mind, brother.  Is your heart warmed?  Do you love to be beaten, or do you love to come into line with Him?  Will you pay the price for it?  What is the desire of your heart?  You may be sorry for the past, but let God have you for the future.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Never Mind the Past 11/2 Thursday Thoughts

I look at you today and I say never mind the past.  You may have a thousand things that spoil you -- forget them.  Count that God has overcome for you in order that you shall overcome and present you faultless,  yea spotless, in the presence of the King...

--Smith Wigglesworth

All Saints Day 11/1 Wednesday Wisdom

Wednesday is All Saints Day, the Christian Memorial Day.  Ponder the lives of believers who have gone before us, especially those who were martyred for their faith.  Pray for believers facing persecution for their faith throughout the world. 

Ponder the lyrics of the most famous All Saints Day hymn:   (If you don't know the tune, look it up on YouTube.)

1. For all the saints, who from their labors rest,
who thee by faith before the world confessed,
thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

2. Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might;
thou Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight;
thou in the darkness drear, their one true light.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

3. O may thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,
fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
and win with them the victor's crown of gold.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

4. O blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle, they in glory shine;
yet all are one in thee, for all are thine.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

5. And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,
steals on the ear the distant triumph song,
and hearts are brave again, and arms are strong.
Alleluia, Alleluia!

6. From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast,
through gates of pearl streams in the countless host,
singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost:
Alleluia, Alleluia!

Reformation Day - 500 Years Ago 10/31 Tuesday Truth

On this 500th anniversary of Reformation Day, spend time giving thanks that the true message of salvation was restored to the church on this day, and that we are able to read the Bible in our own languages, and that we can go directly to God without the interventions of saints or priests. 

Greater Than the Adversary 10/30 Monday Meditation

No man, whoever he is, will ever make progress without [unless] he learns that he is greater than the adversary.  If you don't learn, if you don't understand, if you don't come into line today with the thought that you are greater than the adversary, you will find out that you have a struggle in your life...
[T]hey have a fortification, ... that they have the power of God with them to overcome him through the blood of the Lamb.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Not Fallen Down 10/27 Friday Faith

These are days when Satan is very great, oh yes, he is tremendously busy seeking whom he may devour, but I am finding out this:  that God has blessed me and has blessed us that we will be in a place where we are more than overcomers.  It is to have a shout at the end of the fight -- to not only overcome, but to be able to stand when we have overcome, not fallen down.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Come Up Higher 10/16 Thursday Thoughts

I want you all to understand today that the design of God's Son for us is to be so much greater in this world than we have ever comprehended...
My eyes are looking up, my heart is surrendered.  My heart is big and enlarged in the presence of God, for I want to hear one word from God, "Come up higher" and God will give us that.  Higher into a holy association.

--Smith Wigglesworth

An Absolute Entire Cling to Him 10/25 Wednesday Wisdom

If you help yourself -- in the measure you help yourself, you will find that the limitations of the life of God and the power of God are diminished.  I find so many people trying to help themselves.  What God wants is an absolute entire cling to Him -- only one grand plan which God has got for us, "only believe."  Absolute rest, perfect submission.  Entirety, where God has taken charge of the situation, and you are absolutely brought into everything that God has, because you dare "only believe" what He says.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Joy in the Knowledge of Him 10/24 Tuesday Truth

You cannot have the knowledge of the Lord without joy.  Joy in the knowledge of  Him.  Faith, grace is peace.  Not long petitions, but faith is peace.  Where faith is undisturbed is peace.  Eternal faith, daring to believe what God has said.  If I dare but trust Him, I find it always comes to pass -- no wavering.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Word of the Living God 10/23 Monday Meditation

All our hope is in the Word of the living God.  The Word of God abideth forever.  Oh, the glorious truths found therein.  Never compare this Book with other books.  This is from heaven; it does not contain the Word of God, it is the Word of God.  Supernatural in origin, eternal in duration, value, infinite in scope, divine in authorship.  Read it through, pray it in, write it down.  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of widsom.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Made With One Purpose 10/20 Friday Faith

We are those who have seen the King, we have been quickened from the dead.  God has wrought special miracles in us all; we are made with one great design and purpose.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Measure by the Word of God 10/19 Thursday Thoughts

We must not measure ourselves by ourselves, if we do we shall always be small.  Measure yourself by the Word of God, the great measurement that God brings to you.  Don't be fearful, He wants to make us strong, powerful, stalwart, resolute, resting upon the authority of God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Treasure Within Us 10/18 Wednesday Wisdom

The Lord has one great plan in the meeting, to reveal to us that we are so much greater than we know, a thousand times greater than you have any conception of.  The Word of the Lord will reveal that all things are possible, if you dare believe, and signs and wonders are within reach of all of us.  The Lord wishes me to make it known this morning, you have not to go up nor down to find Him.  He is in your hearts.  The Word of life.  I am perceiving that the Lord has this treasure within us, that the excellency of the power shall bring glory to God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The World Blessed Through Us 10/17 Tuesday Truth

Through faith the eternal Word by the operation of His Spirit brings forth life in our hearts, and we realize we are living in a divine order, where God is manifesting His power and living with us.  This is the plan of God for us, our inheritance, that the world should receive a blessing through us.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Not Failures 10/16 Monday Meditation

God will not allow those who trust in Him to become failures ...  God enables us to bind the enemy and set free the captive.  Beloved, arise, the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee, pouring life into thy weakness, God making thee not the tail, but the head.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Possess the Greater Things 10/13 Friday Faith

When you have nothing you can possess all things.  If you rely upon anything else, you cannot possess the greater things.  The infinite God is behind the man who has no trust in earthly things, you are in a place where you are trusting in nothing but God. 

--Smith Wigglesworth

Always Full of the Life of God 10/12 Thursday Thoughts

God must awaken us to our responsibility, an inbreathed life of power.  We can never be the same after that the Holy Ghost has come upon us (Acts 1:8).  We must be instant in season and out of season, full of the Spirit, always abounding, always full of the life of God.  Ready for every emergency. 

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Holy Ghost Is Waiting 10/11 Wednesday Wisdom

... I believe it is wrong to wait for the Holy Ghost; the Holy Ghost is waiting for us.  The Holy Ghost has come and He will not return until the church goes to be with her Lord for evermore.  So when I see people waiting, I know something is wrong.  The Holy Ghost begins to reveal uncleanness, judging, hardness of heart, all impurity, and until the process of cleansing is complete, the Holy Ghost cannot come but when the body is clean, sanctified, Jesus delights to fill us with His Holy Spirit.  I know it will never stop, we are wholly God's in the process of cleansing, the Holy Ghost preparing our bodies a temple for the Spirit to be made like unto Him.

--Smith Wigglesworth

No One To Turn To But God 10/10 Tuesday Truth

Only believe.  A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.  With only God to help,  we are in a great place, God shall change the situation.  Not I, but Christ.  A new divine order for us to come into, that divine place where God works the miracle.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Some Resurrection Touch About Us 10/9 Monday Meditation

Back from our Northern New England week-long bus trip with our college friends.

Ah yes, the bitterness may come at night, but joy will come in the morning, Hallelujah!  So many believers never look up.  Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "...Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me" (John 11:41).  He cried with a loud voice, "...Lazarus, come forth" (v. 43).  Beloved, God wants us to have some resurrection touch about us.  We may enter into things that will bring us sorrow and trouble, but through them God will bring us to a deeper knowledge of Himself.

--Smith Wigglesworth

He Can Mold You Afresh

I have Americanized the spellings in this quotation.

Only melted gold is minted; only moistened clay is molded; only softened wax receives the seal; only broken, contrite hearts receive the mark as the Potter turn us on His wheel, shapen and burnt to take and keep the mark, the mold, the stamp of God's pure gold.  He can put the stamp on this morning.  He can mold you afresh.  He can change the vision.  He can move the difficulty.  The Lord of Hosts is in the midst of thee and is waiting for thy affection.

--Smith Wigglesworth

I will be on vacation next week.  The next post will be Monday, October 9.  

God Can Bring You Through 9/28 Thursday Thoughts

Only be still and see the salvation of the Lord. Oh, what would happen if we learned the secret to only ask once and believe?  What an advantage it would be if we could only come to a place where we know that everything is within reach of us.  God wants us to see that every obstacle can be moved away.  God brings us into a place where the difficulties are, where the pressure is, where the hard corner is, where everything is so difficult that you know there are no possibilities on the human side -- God must do it.  All these places are of God's ordering.  God allows trials, difficulties, temptations and perplexities to come right along our path, but there is not a temptation or trial which can come to man but God has a way out.  You have not the way out; it is God who can bring you through.

--Smith Wiggleworth

I will be on vacation next week and will not be posting.

Be Still, All Is Well 9/27 Wednesday Wisdom

It does not matter where you are if God is with you.  He that is for you is a million times more than all who can be against you.  Oh, if we could by the grace of God see that the beatitudes of God's divine power come to us with such sweetness, whispering to us, "Be still, My child.  All is well."

--Smith Wigglesworth

He Is Nigh 9/26 Tuesday Truth

We have not to go down to bring Him up nor up to bring Him down.  He is nigh thee, He is in thy heart.  The word of faith which we preach, and this is a living word, and God wants you all to know in this meeting tonight that if you only dare to act upon the divine principle that is written there the gates of hell shall not prevail.  Praise the Lord.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Only Believe! 9/25 Monday Meditation

Only believe!  Only believe!  All things are possible, only believe.  There is something very remarkable about that chorus.  God wants to impress it so deeply on our hearts tonight that we may in our corner, room, private places, get so engrossed in the fact with this divine truth that if we will! only believe!  He can get in us and out of us for others what otherwise would never be possible. Oh, for this to lay hold of us tonight that God comes to us afresh and says, "Only believe."

-- Smith Wigglesworth

More So 9./22 Friday Faith

Oh, this blessed Son of God wants to fill us with such glory till our whole body is aflame with the power of the Holy Ghost.  I see there is a "much more."  Glory to God!  My daughter asked some African boys to tell us the difference between being saved and being filled with the Holy Ghost.  "Ah," they said, "when we were saved it was very good, but when we received the Holy Ghost is was 'more so.'"  Many of you have never received the "more so."

--Smith Wigglesworth

When the Holy Ghost Gets Possession 9/21 Thursday Thoughts

Happy New Year 5778  (Jewish New Year,  Feast of Trumpets)

There were over 100 verified readers of my "Tuesday Truth" online.

When the Holy Ghost gets possession, there is a new man entirely -- the whole being becomes saturated with divine power.  We become a habitation of Him who is all light, all revelation, all power, and all love.  Yea, God the Holy Ghost is so manifested within us that it is glorious.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Filled With All the Fullness of God 9/20 Wednesday Wisdom

The Spirit of the living God sweeps through all weaknesses.  Beloved, God the Holy
Ghost wants to bring us to a great revelation of life.  He wants us to be filled with all the fullness of God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Dryness Turned Into Springs 9/19 Tuesday Truth

What a wonderful divine position God means us all to have, to be filled with the Holy Ghost.  There is something so remarkable, so divine, as it were, a great open door into all the treasury of the Most High.  As the Spirit comes like rain upon the mown grass, He turns the barrenness into greenness and freshness and life.  Oh, Hallelujah!  God would have you know that there is a place where you are dispensed with and where God comes to be thy assurance and sustaining power spiritually, till thy dryness is turned into springs; till thy barrenness begins to be floods, till thine whole life becomes vitalized by heaven, till heaven sweeps through you and dwells within and turns everything inside out, till you are absolutely so filled with divine possibilities that you being to live in a new creation.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Repentance 9/18 Monday Meditation

If you will turn to God with true repentance, He is plenteous in mercy and He will forgive you. Repentance means getting back to God.  When Samson took hold of the pillars upon which the house stood, he pulled the walls down.  God can give you strength and you can get hold of the posts and He will work through you.  No matter what kind of  backslider you have been, there is power in the blood.  "The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin" (I John 1:7).  Oh, if I could only tell you how God so wonderfully restored me!  And I had my "first love" again and He filled me with the Holy Ghost.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Much More 9/15 Friday Faith

Look at the fifth chapter of Romans and see how many times the expression "much more" is used.  Oh, that we might take this grace of God and revel in the Word of God and be so full of expectancy, that we might have these "much mores" coming out as fruit in our lives.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Unction That Abides Forever 9/14 Thursday Thoughts

Samson has his name recorded in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews as being a man of faith.  He was a man who was chosen of God from his mother's womb, but he only had the power of God coming upon him on certain occasions; whereas now we who have received the fulness of  the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, may have the unction which abides forever.  The Lord has promised that we shall have life and have it abundantly.

--Smith Wigglesworth

I Have All 9/13 Wednesday Wisdom

I have all if I have Jesus.

--Smith Wigglesworth

God's Rest 9/12 Tuesday Truth

Only believe!  Only believe!  God will not fail you, beloved.  It is impossible for God to fail.  Believe God, rest in Him.  God's rest is an undisturbed place, a place where heaven bends to meet you.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Perfect Blessing vs. Unbelief 9/11 Monday Meditation

The Spirit of God would have us understand that there  is nothing that can interfere with our coming into perfect blessing except unbelief.  Unbelief is a terrible hindrance.  As soon as we are willing to allow the Holy Ghost to have His way, we will find great things will happen all the time.  But oh, how much of our own human reason we have to get rid of, how much human planning we have to become divorced from.  What would happen right now if everybody believed God?

--Smith Wigglesworth

Suppose No One Believed 9.8 Friday Faith

Suppose that all the people in the world did not believe, that would make no difference to God's Word, it would be the same.  You cannot alter God's Word.  It is from everlasting to everlasting, and they who believe in it shall be like Mount Zion which cannot be moved.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Sons and Joint Heirs 9/7 Thursday Thoughts

By faith, if we receive and accept His Son, God brings us into sonship, and not only into sonship but into joint-heirship, into sharing together with Him all that the Son possesses.

--Smith Wigglesworth

How Great Is Your Authority 9/5 Wednesday Wisdom

I have a one-hour Bible study / teaching on the fall festivals of the Old Testament that I have given four times.  If you would like to have this teaching for your circle, house church, Bible study group, or small group, I am willing to give it anywhere within a 40-minute drive of Norwalk.  Here is a reference: 

Penny Ann Samko Williams    I've heard super-good feedback about the presentation by Larry Lepard.
NDFRC is fortunate to have excellent (human) resources for teaching & sharing.
We're already looking forward to hearing him in the Fall.
Thanks Lep!

I am more and more convinced every day I live that very few who are saved by the grace of God who have a right conception of how great is their authority over darkness, demons, death, and every power of the enemy.  It is a real joy when we realize our inheritance.

--Smith Wigglesworth

A Divine Force Within You 9/1` Friday Faith

I will not be posting for Monday (Labor Day) and possibly Tuesday.

I want you to see that as you receive the Son of God, and as Christ dwells in your heart by faith, there is a divine force, the power of limitless possibilities, within you, and that as a result of this incoming Christ, God wants to do great things through you.

--Smith Wigglesworth

What You See Is Temporary 8/31 Thursday Thoughts

Faith is the substance of things hoped for.  Someone said to me one day, "I would not believe in anything I could not handle and see."  Everything you can handle and see is temporary and will perish with the using.  But the things not seen are eternal and will not fade away.  Are you dealing with tangible things or with the things which are eternal, the things that are facts, that are made real to faith?  Thank God that through the knowledge of the truth of the Son of God I have within me a greater power, a mightier working, an inward impact of life, of power, of vision and of truth more real than anyone can know who lives in the realm of the tangible.  God manifests Himself to the person who dares to believe.

--Smith Wigglesworth

All the Word of God 8/30 Wednesday Wisdom

All the Word of God is wonderful.  It is not only wonderful, but it has power to change conditions.  Any natural condition can be changed by the Word of God, which is a supernatural power.  In the Word of God is the breath, the nature, and the power of the living God, and His power works in every person who dares to believe His Word.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Just the Same 8/29 Tuesday Truth

This Jesus is just the same today, and He says to you, "I will; be thou clean."  He has an overflowing cup for thee, a fullness of life.  He will meet you in your absolute helplessness.  All things are possible if you will only believe.  God has a real plan.  It is so simple.  Just come to Jesus.  You will find Him just the same as He was in days of old.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Give God Control of Your Mind 8/28 Monday Meditation

I copied this from a friend's blog because it needs to be shared with a wider audience. 

It is easy to become discouraged in light of all that is going on in the world. All of this "agitation" comes from the fact that the enemy sees that the Lord is rising up (read Psalm 2). God is shaking everything that can be shaken, and the enemy is coming with great wrath because he knows his time is short.

Don't let the devil get control and be the master of your thought life when listening to the news. When he gets control then fear, rage, discouragement, helplessness,... apathy and all sorts of bad things take root. God's peace is stolen. God's joy is stolen. God's will for our lives is delayed. God did not give us that spirit of fear. He's given us a spirit of power (to intercede), and love (in any circumstance), and a sound and sober mind. (II Tim 1:7) If you follow what I write below - you won't be shaken.

When I see something in the world that "vexes" my spirit, I have been instructed to:

"Cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" . . . to declare "Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered" . . . and "Thy kingdom come. Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

 

Give control of your mind to God instead. Give faith control. Give love control. Bless instead of curse. Intercede, confident that your intercessions are loosing angels to act in behalf of the kingdom of God. Declare, "Let God arise. Let His enemies be scattered." God has commanded you and given you the authority to do that. It will happen.

A "disciple" is a disciplined one. If we're "disciples" we need to discipline - or take control of - our minds.

Is Jesus Willing? 8/25 Friday Faith

The man cried, "...Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean" (Matthew 8:2).  Was Jesus willing?  You will never find Jesus missing an opportunity of doing good.  You will find that He is always more willing to work than we are to give Him an opportunity to work.  The trouble is, we do not come to Him, we do not ask Him for what He is more than willing to give.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Overcome the World 8/24 Thursday Thoughts

He that believes that Jesus is the Son of God overcomes the world.  You ask, "How can a man overcome the world because he believe that Jesus is the Son of God?"  Because Jesus is so holy and you become His habitation.  Jesus is so sweet, His love passeth all understanding.  His wisdom passeth all knowledge, and therefore He comes to you with the wisdom of God and not of this world.  He comes to you with peace not as this world giveth.  He comes to you with boundless blessing, with a measure pressed down and running over. You do not require the world, for you have meat to eat that the world knows not of.  God is a rewarder of all them that diligently seek Him, for they that seek Him shall lack no good thing.

--Smith Wigglesworth

We Are of God 8/23 Wednesday Wisdom

God wants us all to be so built up in truth, righteousness, and the life of God that every person we come in contact with may know of a truth that we are of God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

To Have Only One Attraction 8/22 Tuesday Truth

Brother, sister, are you prepared to go all the way?  Are you willing for heights and depths and lengths and breadths?  Are you willing for your heart to have only one attraction?  Are you willing to have only one lover?  Are you willing for Him to become the very perfect Bridegroom?  For I understand the more bridelike we are, the more we love to hear the Bridegroom's voice, and the less bridelike we are, the less we long for His Word.  If you cannot see without it, if it becomes your meat day and night, if you eat and drink of it, His life will be in you and when He appears you will go.  Help us, Jesus!

--Smith Wigglesworth

Say to the World, Goodbye! 8/21 Monday Meditation

Dare you come into the place of omnipotence?  of wonderment?  Dare you step into line with God's possibility and say, "I am ready for all Thou hast for me"?  It will mean a clean life.  It will mean a holy life.  It will mean a separated life.  It will disjoin you from everything.  It will mean your heart is so perfect, your prospects are so divinely separated that you say to the world, "Goodbye!"  Hear what Paul said, "I conferred not with flesh and blood," that he might inherit this great possession that God has laid up for us.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Future Today 8/18 Friday Faith

The future is what you are today.  The future is not what you are going to be tomorrow.  This is the day when God makes the future possible.  When God can get something through you today, tomorrow is filled with further illumination of God's possibility for you.



--Smith Wigglesworth

A Quenchless Thirst 8/17 Thursday Thoughts

God, just come and make me so that there is not a possibility for me to ever be satisfied but to have a quenchless thirst for the living God!  And then I shall not be overtaken.  Then I shall be ready.  Than I shall have eyes which beam, filled with the extremity of delight looking at the Master.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Wanting ... 8/16 Wednesday Wisdom

Wanting God!  Wanting fellowship in the Spirit!  Wanting the walk with Him!  Wanting communion with Him!  Everything else is no good.  You want the association with God, and God says, "I will come and walk with you..  I will sup with you and you with Me, and I will live in you."  A joyful hallelujah!  Attaining to a spiritual majority, a fullness of Christ, a place where God becomes the perfect Father and the Holy Ghost has a rightful place now as never before.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Made to be Extraordinary 8/15 Tuesday Truth

Beloved, God wants us to be something more than ordinary people... The only thing that God has for a man is to be extraordinary.  God has no room for an ordinary man.  There are millions of ordinary people in the world... But when God lays hold of a man He makes him extraordinary in personality, power, unction, thought and activity.

--Smith Wigglesworth

"Can He Do It For Me?" 8/14 Monday Meditation

But you ask, "Can He do it for me?"  "Yes, if you believe it."  Brother, faith is the victory.  Here I am, so thankful this morning.  Thirty years ago this body you see was sick and helpless and dying.  God, in an instant, healed me. I am now sixty-five years within a day or two and so free and healthy; oh, it is wonderful!  There are people in this place who ought to be healed in a moment.  People who ought to receive the Holy Ghost in a moment.  The power of possibility is in the reach of every man.  The Holy Ghost is full of the rising tide.  Every one of us can be filled to overflowing.  God is here with His divine purpose to change our weakness into mighty strength and faith.  The Word of God!  Oh, brother, sister, have you got it?  It is marrow to your bones.  It is unction.  It is resurrection fro every weakness, it is life from the dead.

--Smith Wigglesworth

A Million Times Bigger 8/11 Friday Faith

The Holy Ghost would have us clearly understand that we are a million times bigger than we know.   Every Christian in this place has no conception of what you are.  My heart is so big that I want to look in your faces and tell you if you only knew what you had, your body would scarcely be able to contain you.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Unveiling of Jesus 8/10 Thursday Thoughts

The Holy Ghost wants everybody to see the unveiling of Jesus.  The unveiling of Jesus is to take away yourself and to place Himself in us; to take away all your human weakness and put within you that wonderful Word of eternal power, of eternal life, which makes you believe that all things are possible.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Life in the Word 8/8 Tuesday Truth

I will not be posting Wednesday Wisdom due to a very full day on Tuesday.

God has made His Word so precious that, if I could not get another copy, I would not part with my Bible for all the world.  There is life in the Word.  There is virtue in it.  I find Christ in it and He is the One I need for spirit, soul, and body.  It tells me of the power of His name and of the power of His blood for cleansing.  The lions may lack and suffer hunger, ...but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing."  (Psalm 34:10).

--Smith Wigglesworth

Feeding on God's Word 8/7 Monday Meditation

[The gospels] will never fail to accomplish the work of God if people will but read and believe them.  That is where men lack.  All lack of faith is due to not feeding on God's Word.  You need it every day.  How can you enter into a life of faith?  Feed on the living Christ of whom this Word is full.  As you get taken up with the glorious fact and the wondrous presence of the living Christ, the faith of God will spring up within you.  "...faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God"  (Romans 10:17).

--Smith Wigglesworth

Peter and the Fish 8/4 Friday Faith

Peter had been at the fishing business all his life but he never had caught a fish with any silver in its mouth.  But the Master does not want us to reason things out -- for carnal reasoning will always land us in a bog of unbelief --- but just to obey.  "This is a hard job," Peter must have said, as he put the bait on his hook, "but since You told me to do it, I'll try," and he cast his line into the sea.  There were millions of fish in the sea, but every fish had to stand aside and leave that bait alone, and let that fish with the piece of money in its mouth come up and take it.

---Smith Wigglesworth

Keep in Memory 8/3 Thursday Thoughts

Do you keep in memory how God has been gracious in the past?  God has done wonderful things for all of us.  If we keep these things in memory we shall become strong in faith.  We should be able to defy Satan in everything.  Remember all the way the Lord has led.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Receiving More and More of the Spirit 8/2 Wednesday Wisdom

The grace of God that was given to the persecuting Saul is available for you.  The same Holy Ghost infilling he received is likewise available.  Do not rest satisfied with any lesser experience than the baptism that the disciples received on the day of Pentecost, then move on to a life of continuous receiving of more and more of the blessed Spirit of God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Filled With the Spirit 8/1 Tuesday Truth

Oh, it always seems to me that the Gospel is robbed of its divine glory when we overlook this marvelous truth of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.  To be saved is wonderful, to be a new creature, to have passed from death unto life, to have the witness of the Spirit that you are born of God, all this is unspeakably precious.  But whereas we have the well of salvation bubbling up, we need to go on to a place where from within us shall flow rivers of living water.  The Lord Jesus showed us very plainly that, if we believe on Him, from within us should flow rivers of living water.  And this He spake of the Spirit.  The Lord wants us to be filled with the Spirit, to have the manifestation of the presence of His Spirit, the manifestation that is indeed given to profit withal, and for us to be His mouthpiece and speak as the very oracles of God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Walking Epistles of His Word 7/31 Monday Meditation

The Lord would have us to be walking epistles of His Word.  Jesus is the Word and is the power in us, and it is His desire to work in and through us His own good pleasure.  We must believe that He is in us.  There are boundless possibilities fro us if we dare to act in God and dare to believe that the wonderful virtue of our living Christ shall be made manifest though us... 

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Only People Who Are Really Glad 7/28 Friday Faith

The children of God are the only people who are really glad.  We are glad inside and we are glad outside.  Our gladness flows from the inside.  God has filled us with joy unspeakable and full of glory...  This is probably how Paul himself felt when he refers to being "beside ourselves" in the Lord.  This joy in the Holy Ghost is beyond anything else.  And this joy of the Lord is our strength.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Faith That Dares to Believe God 7/27 Thursday Thoughts

I suffered for many years from piles, till my whole body was thoroughly weak; the blood used to gush from me.  One day I got desperate and I took a bottle of oil and anointed myself.  I said to the Lord, "Do what You want to, quickly."  I was healed at that very moment.  God wants us to have an activity of faith that dares to believe God.  There is what seems like faith, an appearance of faith, but real faith believes God right to the end.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Dwell in the Secret Place 7/26 Wednesday Wisdom

Oh, what privileges are ours when we are born of God.  How marvelously He keeps us so that the wicked one touches us not.  I see a place in God where Satan dare not come.  Hidden in God.  And He invites us all to come and share this wonderful hidden place where our lives are hid with Christ in God, where we dwell in the secret place of the Most High and abide under the shadow of the Almighty.  God has this place for you in this blessed realm of grace.


--Smith Wigglesworth

Grace and Peace Multiplied 7/25 Tuesday Truth

Not only is grace multiplied to us through knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ, but peace also.  As we really know our God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent, we will have peace multiplied to us even in the multiplied fires of ten thousand Nebuchadnezzars.  It will be multiplied to us even through we are put into the den of lions, and we will live with joy in the midst of the whole thing.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Mighty Results 7/24 Monday Meditation

God's Word is from everlasting to everlasting.  His Word cannot fail.  God's Word is true and when we rest in the fact of its truth, what mighty results we can get. 

--Smith Wigglesworth

Blessed With Abraham 7/21 Friday Faith

Yes, every person in the whole wide world who is saved by faith is blessed with faithful Abraham.  The promise which came to him because he believed God was that in him all the families of the earth should be blessed.  When we believe God there is no knowing where the blessing of our faith will end.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Tested in the Fire 7/20 Thursday Thoughts

Beloved, as you are tested in the fire, the Master is cleaning away all that cannot bring out the image, cleaning away all the dross from your life, and every evil power, till He sees His face right in the life, till He sees His face right in your life.

--Smith Wigglesworth

No "But's" 7/19 Wednesday Wisdom

There are no "buts" in sanctification of the Spirit.  "But" and "if" are gone, and it is "shall" and "I will" all the way through.

Beloved, if there are any but's in your attitude towards the Word of truth there is something unyielded to the Spirit.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Devil Is an Angel of Light 7/18 Tuesday Truth

Don't you believe the devil is a big ugly monster; he comes as an angel of light, and he comes at a time when you have done well, and tells you about it.  He comes to make you feel your are somebody...

--Smith Wigglesworth 

Only the Desire of God 7/17 Monday Meditation

 I want to impress you with this fact that every believer should reach a place in the Holy Ghost where he has no desire expect the desire of God.  The Holy Ghost has to possess us till we are filled, led, yes, divinely led by the Holy Ghost.  It is a mighty thing to be filled wit the Holy Ghost.


--Smith Wigglesworth

Resent All Evil 7/14 Friday Faith

Oh, thank God for Jesus.  I want you to notice that Jesus wants you to be so under His power, so controlled by, and filled with the Holy Ghost, that the power of authority in you will resent all evil.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Worst Thing That Can Come to Anyone 7/13 Thursday Thoughts

Beloved, there is such a thing as people thinking they are full and rich, and knowing not that they are hungry, poor, and blind.  The worst thing that can come to anyone, to a child of God, is to be satisfied.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Be Making an Advancement in God 7/12 Wed. Wisdom

People say to me, "Have you not the gift of faith?"  I say that it is an important gift, but what is still more important is for us every moment to be making an advancement in God.  Looking at the Word of God today I find that its realities are greater to me today than they were yesterday.  It is the most sublime, joyful truth that God brings an enlargement.  Always an enlargement.  There is nothing dead, dry, or barren in this life of the Spirit; God is always moving us on to something higher, and as we move on in the Spirit of faith, it will always rise to the occasion as different circumstances arise.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Power of God 7/11 Tuesday Truth

The power of God is beyond all our conception.  The trouble is that we do not have the power of God in a full manifestation because of our finite thoughts, but as we go on and let God have His way, there is no limit to what our limitless God will do in response to a limitless faith.  But you will never get anywhere except you are in constant pursuit of all the power of God.

--Smith Wigglesworth

At the End of Our Own 7/10 Monday Meditation

One of our workers said to me at Christmas time, "Wigglesworth, I never was so near the end of my purse in my life."  I replied, "Thank God, you are just at the opening of God's treasures."  It is when we are at the end of our own that we can enter into the riches of God's resources.  It is when we possess nothing that we can possess all things.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Friday Faith 7/7 Thirst for the Word

The child of God ought to thirst for the Word.  He should know nothing else but the Word, and should know nothing among men save Jesus.  "...Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God  (Matthew 4:4).

 

--Smith Wigglesworth

Worse Devices of Satan 7/6 Thursday Thoughts

I believe that Satan has many devices and that they are worse today than ever before; but I also believe that there is to be a full manifestation on the earth of the power and glory of God to defeat every device of Satan.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Power of God Can Remodel You 7/4-7/5 Tues./Wed. Wisdom

The power of God can remodel you.  He can make you hate sin and love righteousness.  He can take away bitterness and hatred and covetousness and malice, and can so consecrate you by His power, through His blood, that you are made pure -- every bit holy.  Pure in mind, heart and actions -- pure right through.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Holiness and Worldliness 7/3 Monday Meditation

Lep's Faith Quotes will be published hit-and-miss this week due to work, holiday, company arriving, and birthday.

I do not find anything in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness.  Therefore, if I live in the world I shall become worldly; but, on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I shall become holy.  This is the truth, and the truth will set you free.

--Smith Wigglesworth

God Doesn't Make Failures 6/30 Friday Faith

Next week's Lep's Faith Quotes will be hit-and-miss due to work, holiday, and having company.

Do you think that God would make you to be a failure?  God has never made man to be a failure.  He made man to be a "son"; to walk about  the earth in power; and so when I look at you I know that there is a capability that can be put into you... Yes, there is a capacity of the power of Christ to dwell in you, to bring every evil thing under you till you can put your feet upon it, and be master over the flesh and the devil' till within you there is nothing rises except that which will magnify and glorify the Lord.

--Smith Wigglesworth

No Such Thing as Defeat 6/28 Thursday Thoughts

 I tell you this morning that God is able to so transform and change and bring you into order by the Spirit that you can become a new creation after God's order.  There is no such thing as defeat for the believer.  Without the cross, without Christ's righteousness, without the new birth, without the indwelling Christ, without this divine incoming of God, I see myself a failure.  But God, the Holy Ghost, can come in and take our place till we are renew in righteousness -- made the children of God. 

--Smith Wigglesworth

In the Flesh or In the Spirit 6/28 Wednesday Wisdom

I do not know what your state of grace is -- whether you are saved or not; but it is an awful thing for me to see people, who profess to be Christian, lifeless and powerless, and in a place where their lives are so parallel with the world's that it is difficult to discriminate which place they are in, whether in the flesh or in the Spirit.  Many people live in that place which is described to us by Paul in Romans 7:25:  "...with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."  That is the place where sin is in the ascendancy, but when the power of God comes to you, it is to separate you from yourself.

--Smith Wigglesworth

After Jesus Prayed All Night 6/27 Tuesday Truth

It was quite natural for Jesus after He had served a whole day amongst the multitudes to want to go to His Father and pray all night.  Why?  He wanted a source of strength and power, and an association with His Father which would bring everything else to a place of submission; and when Jesus came from the mountain after communion with His Father, and after being clothed with His Holy presence and Spirit, when He met the demon power it had to go out.  When He met sickness, it had to leave.  He came from the mountain with power to meet the needs of the people, whatever they were.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Immersed in the Life of God 6/26 Monday Meditation

It is not sufficient to have just a "touch," or to be filled with a "desire."  There is only one thing that will meet the needs of the people, and that is for you to be immersed in the life of God -- God taking you, and making you so filled with His Spirit, till you live right in God; so that whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, it may be all for the glory of God, and in that place you will find that all your strength and all your mind and all your soul are filled with a zeal, not only for worship, but for proclamation; proclamation accompanied by all the power of God, which must move satanic power, [and] disturb the world.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Why the World Does Not See Jesus 6/23 Friday Faith

The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is because Christian people are not filled with Jesus.  They are satisfied with weekly meetings, and occasionally reading the Bible, and sometimes praying.  Beloved, if God lays hold of you by the Spirit, you will find that there is an end of everything and a beginning of God, so that your whole body becomes seasoned with a divine likeness of God.  He has begun not only to use you, but He has taken you in hand, so that you might be a vessel unto honor.

-Smith Wigglesworth

Cleansed From All Filthiness 6/22 Thursday Thoughts

Can we have a hatred for sin and a love for righteousness?  Yes, God will create within thee a pure heart.  He will take away the stony heart out of the flesh.  He will sprinkle thee with clean water and thou shalt be cleansed from all thy filthiness.  When will He do it?  When you seek Him for such inward purity.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Your One Desire 6/21 Wednesday Wisdom

Seek the Lord and He will sanctify every thought, every act, till your whole being is ablaze with holy purity and your one desire will be for Him who has created you in holiness.  Oh, this holiness!  Can we be made pure?  We can.  Every inbred sin must go.  God can cleanse away every evil thought.

--Smith Wigglesworth

How Satan Gets an Open Door 6/20 Tuesday Truth

Before Satan can bring his evil spirits, there has to be an open door...  How does Satan get an opening?  When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites.  Then it is that Satan comes.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Changed Into His Likeness 6/19 Monday Meditation

As we think about that which is pure, we become pure.  As we think about that which is holy, we become holy.  And as we think about our Lord Jesus Christ, we become like Him.  We are changed into the likeness of the object on which our gaze is fixed.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Perfect Deliverance 6/16 Friday Faith

There is a life of perfect deliverance, and this is where God wants you to be.  If I find my peace is disturbed on any line, I know it is the enemy who is trying to work.  How do I know this?  Because the Lord has promised to keep your mind in perfect peace when it is stayed on Him (Isaiah 26:3).

--Smith Wigglesworth

Our Only Safety 6/15 Thursday Thoughts

You ask, "Is there any place for the enemy in one that has been baptized in the Holy Ghost?"  Our only safety is in going on with God and in being constantly filled with the Holy Ghost.

--Smith Wigglesworth

No Ordinary Men (Let God Have His Way) 6/14 Wed. Wisdom

God has no room for ordinary men.  A man can be swept by the power of God in his first stage of revelation of Christ, and from that moment has to be an extraordinary man, but to be filled with the Holy Ghost he has to become a free, free body for God to dwell in, and no man can have Trinity abiding in him and be as he was before, so I appeal to you tonight, you people who have been filled with the Holy Ghost, I appeal to you whatever is the cost, let God have His way.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Real Saving and Healing Power 6/13 Tuesday Truth

Our God is real in saving and healing power today. Our Jesus is just the same, yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).  He saves and heals today just as of old, and He wants to be your Savior and your Healer.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Devil's Mighty Victory 6/12 Monday Meditation

The devil knows that if he can capture your thought life, he has won a mighty victory over you.  His great business is injecting thought, but if you are pure and holy you will instantly shrink from them.  God wants us to let the mind that was in Christ Jesus, that pure, holy, humble mind of Christ, be in us.



--Smith Wigglesworth

Not Only For a Few 6/9 Friday Faith

And before He went to the glory, He told His disciples that they should receive the power of the Holy Ghost upon them, too.  Thus, through them, His gracious community would continue.  This power of the Holy Ghost was not only for a few apostles, but even for them that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God should call (Acts 2:39), even for us away down in the twentieth century.  Some ask, "But was not this power just for the privileged few in the first century?"  No.  Read the Master's great commission as recorded by Mark, and you will see it is for them who believe. 


--Smith Wigglesworth

Be Humble, Usable Vessels 6/8 Thursday Thoughts

We have been seeing wonderful miracles these last days and they are only a little of what we are going to see.  I believe that we are right on the threshold of wonderful things, but I want to emphasize that all these things will be through the power of the Holy Ghost.  You must not think that these gifts will fall upon you like ripe cherries.  There is a sense in which you have to pay the price for everything you get.  We must be covetous for God's best gifts, and say Amen to any preparation the Lord takes us through, in order that we may be humble, usable vessels through whom He Himself can operate by means of the Spirit's power.

--Smith Wigglesworth 

Dealing With the Devil 6/7 Wednesday Wisdom

Take your position in the first epistle of John and declare, "...greater is he that is in [me], than he that is in the world" (I John 4:4).  Then recognize that it is not yourself that has to deal with the power of the devil, but the Greater One that is in you.  Oh, what it means to be filled with Him.  You can do nothing of yourself, but He that is in you will win the victory.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Move On With the Lord 6/6 Tuesday Truth

If we do not move on with the Lord these days, and do not walk in the light of revealed truth, we shall become as the savorless salt, as a withered branch.  This one thing we must do, forgetting those things that are behind, the past failures and the past blessings, we must reach forth for those things which are before, and press toward the mark for the prize of our high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:13,14).

--Smith Wigglesworth

Have an Overflowing Cup 6/5 Monday Meditation

  A good follow-up to Pentecost:


God's command is for us to be filled with the Spirit.  We are no good if we only have a full cup.  We need to have an overflowing cup all the time.  It is a tragedy not to live in the fullness of overflowing.  See that you never live below the overflowing tide.



--Smith Wigglesworth

Pentecost 6/2 Friday Faith

This coming Sunday, June 4, is Pentecost, celebrating the coming of the Holy Spirit to indwell all believers.  Here is an appropriate quote from Smith Wigglesworth:


Yes, there is a power, a blessing, an assurance, a rest in the presence of the Holy Ghost.  You can feel His presence and know that He is with you.  You need not spend an hour without this inner knowledge of His holy presence.  With His power upon you there can be no failure. You are above par all the time.

A Spiritual Tragedy 6/1 Thursday Thoughts

It is a serious thing to have the baptism [of the Holy Spirit] and yet be stationary; to live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy.  We must be willing to deny ourselves everything to receive the revelation of God's truth and to receive the fullness of the Spirit.  Only that will satisfy God, and nothing less must satisfy us.


--Smith Wigglesworth

Everything Except the Match 5/31 Wednesday Wisdom

For some years I was associated with the Plymouth Brethren.  They are very strong on the Word, and are sound on water baptism, and they do not neglect the breaking of bread service, but have it every Lord's day morning as they had it in the early church.  These people seem to have everything except the match.  They have the wood, but they need the fire and they would be all ablaze.  Because they lack the fire of the Holy Spirit, there is no life in their meetings. 


One young man who attended their meetings received the baptism with the speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance.  The brethren were very upset about this and came to the father and said to him, "You must take your son aside and tell him to cease."  They did not want any disturbance.  The father told the son and said, "My boy, I have been attending this church for twenty years and have never seen anything of this kind.  We are established in the truth and do not want anything new.  We won't have it."  The son replied, "If that is God's plam I will obey, but somehow or other I don't think it is."


As they were going home the horse stood still; the wheels were in deep ruts.  The father pulled at the reins but the horse did not move  He asked, "What do you think is up?'' The son answered, "It has got established."  God save us from becoming stationary.


--Smith Wigglesworth

Importance of Being Filled 5/30 Tuesday Truth

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of being filled with the Spirit.  It is impossible for us to meet the conditions of the day, to walk in the light as He is in the light, to subdue kingdoms and work righteousness and bind the power of Satan unless we are filled with the Holy Ghost.

--Smith Wigglesworth

A Great Weakness in the Church 5/19 Friday Faith

There is a great weakness in the church of Christ because of an awful ignorance concerning the Spirit of God and the gifts He has come to bring.  God would have us powerful on all lines because of the revelation of the knowledge of His will concerning the power and manifestation of His Spirit.  He would have us ever hungry to receive more and more of His Spirit...  A man who is not hungry to receive more of God is out of order in any convention.

--Smith Wigglesworth

This is the last Lep's Faith Quote until Memorial Day due to vacation.

Glory 5/18 Thursday Thoughts

 ...Glory has to be expressed.  So God, by filling us with the Holy Ghost, has brought into us this glory, that out of us may come forth the glory.


--Smith Wigglesworth


There will be no Lep's Faith Quotes next week as I will be on vacation.  Resuming on Memorial Day.

Are You Hungry? 5/17 Wednesday Wisdom

God is making people hungry and thirsty after His best.  And everywhere He is filling the hungry and giving them that which the disciples received at the very beginning.  Are you hungry?  If you are, God promises that you shall be filled.   --Smith Wigglesworth


[Yesterday's devotional, from a previous paragraph in this sermon, said, "If ever you see a "shall" in the Bible, make it yours."]


I will be on vacation next week and will not be posting Monday through Memorial Day.

"Shall" 5/16 Tuesday Truth

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).  Note that word, "shall be filled.:"  If you ever see a "shall" in the Bible, make it yours.  Meet the conditions and God will fulfill His Word to you.


--Smith Wigglesworth

Steadfast and Unmoveable 5/15 Monday Meditation

If you are sure of your ground, if you are counting on the presence of the living Christ within, you can laugh when you see things getting worse.  God would have you settled and grounded in Christ, and you become steadfast and unmoveable in Him.



--Smith Wigglesworth

To Give God the Glory 5/12 Friday Faith

Every trial is to bring you to a greater position in God. The trial that tries your faith will take you on to the place where you will know that the faith of God will be forthcoming in the next test.  No man is able to win any victory save through the power of the risen Christ within him.  You will never be able to say, "I did this or that."  You will desire to give God the glory for everything.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Dare You Believe God? 5/11 Thursday Thoughts

Dare you believe God?  Dare you stand on the record of His Word?  What is the record?  If thou shalt believe, thou shalt see the glory of God.  You will be sifted as wheat. You will be tried as though some strange thing tried you.  You will be put in places where you will have to put your whole trust in God.  There is no such thing as anyone being tried beyond what God will allow.  There is no temptation that will come, but God will be with you right in the temptation to deliver you, and when you have been tried, He will bring you forth as gold. 


--Smith Wigglesworth

Our Christ Is Risen 5/10 Wednesday Wisdom

I'm sorry that I didn't come across this in time for Easter.

Our Christ is risen.  His salvation was not a thing done in a corner.  Truly He was a man of glory who went to Calvary for us, in order that He might free us from all that would mar and hinder, that He might transform us by His grace, and bring us out from under the power of Satan into the glorious power of God.  One touch of our risen Christ will raise the dead.  Hallelujah!

--Smith Wigglesworth

Has God Changed? 5/9 Tuesday Truth

People do not expect to see signs and wonders today as the disciples saw them of old. Has God changed? Or has our faith waned so that we are not expecting the greater works that Jesus promised? 


--Smith Wigglesworth

Shout of Faith 5/8 Monday Meditation

I come across some who would be giants in the power of God but they have no shout of faith... You must learn to take the victory and shout in the face of the devil, "It is done!"  There is no man who can doubt if he learns to shout.



--Smith Wigglesworth

Our Christ Is Risen 5/5 Friday Faith

Our Christ is risen.  He is a living Christ who indwells us.  We must not have this truth merely as a theory, Christ must be risen in us by the power of the Spirit.  The power that raised Him from the dead must animate us, and as this glorious resurrection power surges through your being, you will be freed from all your weaknesses and you will become strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.  There is a resurrection power that God wants you to have and to have today.  Why not?  Receive your portion here and now.


--Smith Wigglesworth

Tired of Imitations 5/4 Thursday Thoughts

The power of Pentecost as it came at first came to loose men.  God wants us free on every line.  Men and women are tired of imitations; they want reality; they want to see people who have the living Christ within, and are filled with Holy Ghost power.


--Smith Wigglesworth

Come and Catch Fire 5/3 Wednesday Wisdom

Sometimes I say to people, "You weren't at meeting the other night."  They reply, "Oh, yes, I was there in spirit."  I say to them, "Well, come next time with your body also.  We don't want a lot of spirits here and no bodies.  We want you to come and get filled with God."  When all the people will come and pray and praise as did these early disciples there will be something doing.  People who come will catch fire and they will want to come again.  But they will have no use for a place where everything has become formal, dry, and dead. 


--Smith Wigglesworth

The Place Was Shaken 5/2 Tuesday Truth

Note the words of [Acts 4] verse 31, "And when they had prayed, the place was shaken...."  There are many churches where they never pray the kind of prayer that you read of here.  A church that does not know how to pray and to shout will never be shaken.  If you live in  a place like that you may as well write "Ichabod -- the glory of the Lord has departed" -- over the threshold.  It is only when men have learned the secret of prayer, of power, and of  praise, that God comes  forth. 


--Smith Wigglesworth

His Hand on Me 5/1 Monday Meditation

I know the Lord laid His hand on me. It's heaven on earth.  Heaven has begun with me.  I am happy now -- and free.  Since the Comforter has come.  The Comforter, the great revealer of the Kingdom. He came to give us the more abundant life.  God has designed the plan, nothing really matters if the Lord loves us.  God sets great store by us.  The pure in heart see God...



"If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He shall quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you (Romans 8:11).



--Smith Wigglesworth

God Has Forgotten 4/28 Friday Faith

The devil makes you remember the day you failed, you would give the world to forget.  God has forgotten.  When He forgives, He forgets.  God wants to make us pillars, honorable, strong, holy...  God wants you to know that you are saved, cleansed, delivered, and marching to victory.  Faith to believe!  God has a plan!  Set your affections on things above, get into the heavenly places with Christ.


-- Smith Wigglesworth

God's Word Is Power 4/27 Thursday Thoughts

God's Word is a tremendous word, a productive word producing what it is.  Power; producing God-likeness.  We get to heaven through the Word of God, we have peace through the blood of His cross.  Redemption is ours through the knowledge of the Word.  I am saved because God's Word says so.



That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.  -Romans 10:9



--Smith Wigglesworth

Through Faith in His Name 4/26 Wednesday Wisdom

The name of Jesus is so marvelous.  Peter and John had no conception of all that was in that name; neither had the man, lame from his mother's womb who was laid daily at the gate; but they had faith to say, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk."  And as Peter took him by the right hand, and lifted him up, immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength, and he went into the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.  God wants you to see more of this sort of thing done.  How can it be done?  Through His name, through faith in His name, through faith which is by Him.



--Smith Wigglesworth

Power to Transform Anyone 4/25 Tuesday Truth

Peter and John were helpless, were illiterate, they had no college education.  They had had some training with fish, and they had been with Jesus.  To them had come a wonderful revelation of the power of the name of Jesus.  They had handed out the bread and fish after Jesus had multiplied them.  They had sat at the table with Him, and John had often gazed into His face.  Peter had often to be rebuked, but Jesus manifested His love to Peter through it all.  Yea, He loved Peter, the wayward one.  Oh, He's a wonderful lover!  I have been wayward, I have been stubborn; I had an unmanageable temper at one time, but how patient He has been.  I am here to tell you that there is power in Jesus and in His wondrous name to transform anyone, to heal anyone.



--Smith Wigglesworth

God Always Answers Prayer 4/24 Monday Meditation

No one can prove to me that God does not always answer prayer.  He always gives the exceeding abundant above all we ask or think.  (Ephesians 3:20)



--Smith Wigglesworth

Peace Within, Persecution Without 4/21 Friday Faith

The Lord Jesus came to bring peace, and soon after you get peace within you get persecution without.  If you remain stationary, the devil and his agents will not disturb you much.  But when you press on and go the whole length with God, the enemy has you as a target.  But God will vindicate you in the midst of the whole thing.


--Smith Wigglesworth

The Exceeding Greatness of His Power 4/20 Thursday Thoughts

 that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power  20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,  21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,  23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.



--Ephesians 1:18-23