His Heart Is Still the Same 1/1 Tuesday Truth

Jesus healed to fulfill the ancient prophetic picture of the Messiah:  "Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."  But if it was necessary then for Him to fulfill that character, it is as much so now...
If this is not true still for us, then Jesus Christ is not "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."  If this is not still true for us, then -- perhaps -- the other promises of the Scriptures are also not true for us, and He has not borne our sins any more than our sickness and suffering.  n
No, His heart is still the same.

--A.B. Simpson

The Age of Miracles 12/31 Monday Meditation

The age of miracles is not past.  The Word of God never indicated a hint of such a fact.  On the contrary, miracles are to be among the signs of the last days.  The very adversary himself is to counterfeit them and send forth unto the kings of the earth demon spirits working miracles.  The only defense against the false miracles will be the true.
We are in the age of miracles, the age of Christ...

--A.B. Simpson

"All Power" Never Withdrawn 12/28 Friday Faith

Christ's "all power" has never been withdrawn.  He was to be a perpetual I Am, to be as near at the end as at the beginning.  The work we are to do is to be the complement of His own. In fact, it is His own work, for Luke says He "began both to do and teach" (Acts 1:1).  He must, therefore, be continuing His work still. 

--A.B. Simpson

Why Should People Die? 12/27 Thursday Thoughts

Sometimes someone asks, "Why should people ever die if Christ will always heal?"  Because faith can only go as far as God's promise, and God has nowhere promised that we shall never die during this dispensation.  It is not immortal life that God promises in connection with the healing of the mortal body.  The promise is fullness of life and health and strength up to the measure of our natural life and until our life work is done.  True, it is the life of the resurrection that we have; but it is not the whole of it - only the firstfruits.

--A. B. Simpson

Faith and Seeing 12/21 Friday Faith

This will be my final post until December 26.  Have a wonderful and blessed Christmas, everyone!

A faith that is going to wait for signs and evidence will never be strong.  Plants that begin by leaning will always need support. Indeed, the "faith" which rests upon seeing is not faith.  "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."

--A.B. Simpson

Twin Princiiples of the Gospel 12/20 Thursday Thoughts

Grace without works and faith without sight must always go together as twin principles of the gospel.  The one thing God asks from all who are to receive His grace is that they shall trust His simple Word.  But this must be real trust.  We must believe and doubt not.  If God's Word be true at all, it is absolutely and utterly true.

--A.B. Simpson

I Am With You 12/19 Wednesday Wisdom

Christ did not say, "I will be with you alway."  That would have suggested a break.  He said, "I am" -- an unchanging now, a presence never withdrawn, a love, a nearness, a power to heal and save as constant and as free as ever, even unto the end of the world.  "Jesus Christ the same yea=sterday, and to day, and for ever."  (Hebrews 13:8)

-A. B. Simpson

Anointing by the Elders 12/18 Tuesday Truth

It [the task of anointing the sick] was given to the elders -- the men most likely to be within reach of every sufferer, the men who are to continue till the end of the age.  Notice the time at which this commission is given.  It was not at the beginning, but at the close of the apostolic age.  It was not for that generation, but for the one that was just rising and all the succeeding ages.

--A.B. Simpson

Beginning A.B. Simpson quotes 12/17 Monday Meditation

Having completed the Smith Wigglesworth quotes, today we begin quotes by A.B. Simpson, the founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance.  "Lep's Faith Quotes" features quotes from "Pentecostal Pioneers" which one would not encounter in their usual daily devotional readings.  In the early days of The C&MA [Alliance], Simpson was closely allied with the Pentecostals, he traded pulpits with them,  and he is considered a forefather of the Word of Faith movement.  In his later years, Simpson disassociated himself with the Pentecostals and the direction of the C&MA changed.

Christ promised the signs, and they followed as long as Christians continued to believe and expect them.  It is important to observe Young's translation of verse 17 [Mark 16:17]:  "Signs shall follow them that believe these things." The signs shall correspond to the extent of their faith. 

By such mighty "signs and wonders" the church was established in Jerusalem, Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.  The unbelief of the world needs these signs today as much as in the apostolic times.

MY FINAL WIGGLESWORTH QUOTE 12/14 Friday Faith

I read the 846-page complete sermons of Smith Wigglesworth around 2012 and marked all the brief stand-alone quotes that didn't require the context of the sermon.  I used those quotes in 2012, 2014, and from early 2017 to the present and have finally completed the book.  I will be doing some A.B. Simpson quotes starting on Monday.  (BTW, this daily post began in 2005.)

The following is a very appropriate conclusion to his transcribed sermons.  (He never wrote a book or read any book but the Bible, having been taught to read by his wife. He had dropped out of school at age 7 to be a child laborer in England.)

There is more for us all yet, praise the Lord.  This is only the beginning.  So far we have only touched the fringe of things.  There is so much more for us if we will but yield to God.

Do you want to receive the Spirit?

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?  (Luke 11:13)

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Our Father Is Infinite 12/13 Thursday Thoughts

I am a father and I want to give my boys the very best.  We human fathers are but finite, but our heavenly Father is infinite.  There is no limit to the power and blessing He has laid up for them that love Him.  Be filled with the Spirit.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Power from on High (Pt. 2) 12/12 Wednesday Wisdom

Instead of your laboring according to your own plan, it will be God working in you and through you to do His own good pleasure through the power of the Spirit within.  Someone has said that you are no good until you have your "I" knocked out.  Christ must reign within, and the life in the Holy Ghost means at all times the subjection of your own will to make way for the working out of the good and acceptable and perfect will of God within.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Power from on High (Pt. 1) 12/11 Tuesday Truth

The Lord wants all saved people to receive power from on High - power to witness, power to act, power to live, and power to show forth the divine manifestation of God within.  The power of God will take you out of your own plans and put you into the plan of God.  You will be unmantled and divested of that which is purely of yourself and put into a divine order.  The Lord will change you and put His mind where yours was, and thus enable you to have the mind of Christ.  (to be continued)

--Smith Wigglesworth

The State of Things Today 12/10 Monday Meditation

Where is the fault for the state of things we see today?  The lack of a deep spirit of repentance.  Weeping is not repentance, sorrow is not repentance.  Repentance is a turning away and doing the work of righteousness and holiness.

--Smith Wigglesworth

The Time to Sing 12/ 7 Friday Faith

The strength of a life is the strength of its song.  When the pressure is heavy that is the time to sing.  Pressure is permitted to strengthen the attitude and spirit of praise.  It takes a man to sing in the dark when the storm and battle are raging, and it is such singing that makes the man.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Praise Is God's Sunlight 12/6 Thursday Thoughts

Praise is God's sunlight in the heart.  It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit.  It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.  There can be no holy life without it.  It keeps the heart pure and the eye clear.  Praise is essential to the knowledge of God and his will.

--Smith Wigglesworth

When Satan Can Get to Your Body 12/ 5 Wednesday Wisdom

When Satan can get to your body he will, if possible, make the pain, or the weakness, so distracting that it will affect your mind, and always bring your mind down to where the pain is.  When that takes place, you haven't the same freedom in the Spirit to lift up your heart and shout, and praise the Lord, because the distraction of the pain brings the elementary power which ought to be full of praise to God, down into the body...
Beloved, I mean precisely this:  Anything that takes me from a position where I am in an attitude of worship, of peace, of joy, of a consciousness of the presence of God, of an inward moving of the power of God that makes me able to lift myself up and live in the world as though I was not of it (because I am not of it); anything that dethrones me from that attitude is evil, is Satan.

--Smith Wigglesworth

God Has Established Truth 12/4 Tuesday Truth

God has established truth in His Word.  Men have tried to bring it to nought.  God has His Word in the earth, it is also settled in heaven. If you are on the Word you are eternally fixed.  God has said it, it is established, the Word of God abideth forever. Men pass away, things change, but God's Word abideth forever.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Disease and Sickness 12/3 Monday Meditation

I have looked through my Bible, and I cannot find where God brings disease and sickness.  I know there is glory, and I know it is the power of God that brings the glory; but it isn't God at all, but the devil that brings sickness and disease.

--Smith Wigglesworth