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