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