Paddling Around the Edge 1/1 Wednesday Wisdom

May all of you have a blessed new year!

Our souls have caught just a little flash, a little larger revelation of the living God through the blessed Word and through the Holy Spirit, the divine power to make it real.  But my brother, beyond our soul is the great ocean of God.  We are just paddling around on the edge yet.

-- John G. Lake

Blind to the Power of God 12/31 Tuesday Truth

The marvel is that men have remained blind to the power of God so long. How was it that you and I, raised in Christian homes, reading the Word of God, praying to our Father God, failed to comprehend that the power of God through Christ was able to save a man from all his sins and all his sicknesses?

-- John G. Lake

The Purpose of Jesus 12/30 Monday Meditation

We contend, therefore, that the purpose of Jesus was not to save souls only.  His purpose was to save men -- to save their body from sickness, their soul from sin, their spirit from death.  And to this end He gave eternal life to the spirit, peace to the soul, healing to the body, and all are available to every man.

-- John G. Lake

An Unlimited Life 12/20 Friday Faith

I will not be posting next week.  This will be the last post until December 30.  Wishing all of you a Christ-filled Christmas!  

Paul declares, "He gave some apostles, some evangelists and some pastors and teachers." What for? "Till we all come into the likeness of the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph. 4:11, 13).  Bless God.  Not a limited life, but an unlimited life.  The idea of Christ, the idea of God was that every man, through Jesus Christ, through being joined to Him by the Holy Spirit, should be transformed into Christ's perfect image.  Glory be to God.  Christ within and Christ without.  Christ in your spirit, Christ in your soul, and Christ in your body,  Not only living His life, but performing His works by the grace of God.  That is the Gospel of the Son of God. 

-- John G. Lake

Don't Apologize for Christianity 12/19 Thursday Thoughts

Christianity is not a thing to be apologized for.  Christianity was the living, conscious life and power of the living God, transmitted into the nature of man until, bless God, man's nature is transformed by the living touch and the very spirit, soul, and being is energized and filled by His life.  Thus you become indeed, as Christ intended, a veritable Christ.

-- John G. Lake

Triumph Everywhere 12/18 Wednesday Wisdom

There is a union between the Christ and the Christian that is so deep, so pure, so sweet, so real that the very conditions of the human spirit are transmitted to His, and the conditions of the Christ's Spirit are transmitted to ours.  It is because of the continuous inflow of the Spirit of Christ in our heart that we appreciate or realize His power and triumph.  It lifts man above his surroundings and causes him to triumph anywhere and everywhere.

-- John G. Lake

All Things New (Part 2) 12/17 Tuesday Truth

[The new life] is reflected in a new gentleness, a new kindness, a new cheerfulness, and a new love.
The new life brings with it a new power, a new protection, a new message, a new responsibility, a new rest, and a new shout of victory.  We are a new creation in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17). 

--John G. Lake

All New Things (part 1) 12/16 Monday Meditation

Consider the result of being born into the family of God.  It means a new Father, a new Savior, a new Captain, a new armor, a new Physician, a new Comforter, a new Guide, a new Teacher, a new Truth.
It brings within, a new heart, a new mind, a new grace, a new hope, a new peace, a new joy, a new calmness, a new outlook on life, and a new purpose for living and being.
(to be continued)
-- John G. Lake

Christianity Stands Unique 12/13 Friday Faith

Christianity stands today absolutely unique.  No other religion on earth has our hope, or our consciousness, or our power.  I fear sometimes that we moderns somehow have lost the spirit of original Christianity.  We have lost the smash of it.  We have lost the charge of it.  We have lost the overcoming of it.  We are begging the devil for a place in the world, apologizing for our faith in God, trying to conform our religion to the mind of the world.

-- John G. Lake

Immortality 12/12 Thursday Thoughts

In our day, we have almost come to the place where the world is being taught to believe that the message of Christianity is morality -- be decent, don't act like a pig, keep the beast under control.  That is about the message of modern Christianity.  Jesus Christ never wasted His time establishing mere morality.  Jesus Christ, the Son of God, declared immortality to be the goal of Christianity, its attainment, the purpose of God for you and me.   "I will raise him up at the last day," said Jesus.  "I will give him eternal life."  "The dead in Christ shall rise first." 

-- John G. Lake

An Openness to God Only 12/11 Wednesday Wisdom

I tell you, beloved, it is not necessary for people to be dominated by evil, nor by evil spirits.  Instead of being dominated, Christians should exercise dominion and control other forces... Jesus taught us to close the mind, to close the heart, to close the being against all that is evil; to live with an openness to God only, so that the sunlight of God shines in.  The glory radiance of God shines in, but everything that is dark is shut out.

-- John G. Lake

The Man With Christ in Him 12/10 Tuesday Truth

The man with Christ in him, the Holy Ghost, is greater than any other power in the world.  All other natural and evil powers are less than God, even Satan himself is a lesser power.   Man with God in him is greater than Satan.  This is the reason that God says to the believer, he shall cast out devils.  "Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (I John 4:4).

-- John G. Lake

Something Will Happen Then 12/9 Monday Meditation

God's purposes come to pass when your heart and mine gets the real God cry, and the real God prayer comes into our spirits and the real God yearning gets our natures.  Something is going to happen then.

-- John G. Lake

Bring Our Hearts Back 12/6 Friday Faith

At the end of the first 300 years of the Christian era, there were millions of Christians.  Christianity was an aggressive power.  Christianity went into the heart of heathendom to undo their superstitions, to break down their psychological forces, to leave the consciousness of Jesus Christ in the heart, to heal the sick, to raise the dead.  Oh, God in heaven, bring our hearts back to it.  Christianity was a conquering force.

-- John G. Lake

The Sanest Man 12/5 Thursday Thoughts

The sanest man is the man that believes God and stands on His promises and knows the secret of His power, receives the Holy Ghost and gives Him sway in his life and goes out in the name of the Lord Jesus to command the will of God and bring it to pass in the world.

-- John G. Lake

A Faith Triumphant 12/4 Wednesday Wisdom

Your spirit life is fruitful and built up and enriched by communion with the Father and by reading His Word.  And your spirit becomes strong and vigorous.  There issues from it a faith that is triumphant and creative.  I venture to say this:  The men and women who are weak in faith, that once were mighty in faith, are so because they have stopped feeding on the Word of God and stopped close, intimate fellowship with the Father. 

-- John G. Lake

Quotes from John G. Lake 12/3 Tuesday Truth

I have finished the quotes from Advanced Bible Studies by E. W. Kenyon.  I am switching now to quotes from the complete sermons of John G. Lake (1870-1935).  It's been four years since I did a series of Lake's quotes.  My purpose in Lep's Faith Quotes is to quote from Pentecostal pioneers whom the reader will not encounter in modern devotionals.  John G. Lake was one of the best known healing evangelists a century ago, with a ministry in South Africa and America.  He eventually located his ministry in Spokane, Washington.  To learn more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Lake. 

In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing.  It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph. 

-- John G. Lake

More Than a Conqueror 12/2 Monday Meditation

Just as Jesus dared to say, "I am the vine, and ye are the branches"; or, "I am the light of this world"; you say, "I am what He says I am."  More than even that you can say, "I can do what He says I can do."
Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things in him who strengthenth me."
You see, we are moving out of the realm of weakness into the realm of victory; and you can say, "I am more than a conqueror, for I am complete in Him who is the head of all principalities."

-- E. W. Kenyon

A Psalm for Thanksgiving 11/27 Wednesday Wisdom

Psalm 103 New 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.

This will be the last post of the week.  Happy Thanksgiving!

You Conquered With Him 11/26 Tuesday Truth

I will not be posting Thursday or Friday.  Happy Thanksgiving!

You were crucified with Him.  You were buried with Him.  You were raised with Him.  You conquered the enemy with Him.
Now, with faith planted solidly upon this foundation, you face your enemy without fear.  You dare to say, "I am the righteousness of God in Christ."

-- E. W.  Kenyon   

The Good Fight of Faith 11/25 Monday Meditation

The good fight of faith is a battle that has been won a long time ago, in which you do nothing but acknowledge the defeat of your enemy and your own victory in Christ.  The fight of faith is not a struggle on your part.  It is a recognition and a confession on your part of the victory that you and Christ won over the adversary in that great substitutionary battle that took place before He arose from the dead.

-- E.W. Kenyon

Old Things Have Stopped Being 11/22 Friday Faith

"Wherefore if any man is in Christ there is a new creation."
Did you notice something?  "The old things have passed away."
What are the old things?  They are failure, weakness, fear, a sense of unworthiness.  They have stopped being. What are you? You are a branch of Christ.  You are a part of Christ just as the branch is a part of the vine.  You are a part of Christ, and Christ is God. (John 15:5)
The same wonderful characteristics that were manifested in the earth walk of Jesus now can be manifested in you.  All it requires is that you take your part and make your confession as boldly as Jesus made His.

--E. W. Kenyon

He Forgot All About My Past 11/21 Thursday Thoughts

He has called me as a New Creation to fellowship with the Head of this new body called the Church, and to fellowship with His children.
Fellowship means eating together, bearing up under pressure together, drinking from the same cup.  He has called me to drink with Jesus, to live with Jesus, to share with Jesus in the saving of lost men and the building up of the Body through the Word.
The Father acts as though sin had never been as far as I am concerned.  When He recreated me He forgot all about my past...
This is victory.  There are no theories here that cast a dark shadow over the past life, but they are all wiped out.  Now were are in the Beloved.

-- E. W. Kenyon

He Is Your Ability 11/20 Wednesday Wisdom

If you demean yourself and talk about your lack, you rob Him of the glory of His finished work in you and you give place to the adversary's dominance. You must never do it.  You must get used to being what you are.  That may be hard with all the Christians about you magnifying weakness and failure, but you must magnify your union with Christ, your utter oneness with Him.
You can do it.  He is your very strength this day.  He is your ability.

-- E. W. Kenyon

You Are His Own 11/19 Tuesday Truth

"Now in all these things we are more than conquerors" (Romans 8:37), and we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.
There is no earthly power or demoniacal power that can separate us from the Father love that was in Jesus.  You are His own, and He is yours.

-- E. W. Kenyon

You Received His Very Nature 11/18 Monday Meditation

When you received Eternal Life you received the very thing that makes Jesus what He is.  You received of the Father His very Nature; so if you have received into your spirit that which makes God what He is, you are like Him.
When the church recognizes this, it is going to revolutionize the whole structure. 

-- E. W. Kenyon

Sins Were Put Away 11/15 Friday Faith

Sin consciousness had been the outstanding enemy of the believer, but there is no ground for it. If one knew that sin and sins were put away when he was Born Again, that there was no past that could ever confront him again, it would change his life completely.  (II Corinthians 5:17-27).

-- E. W. Kenyon

An Unconquerable Body 11/14 Thursday Thoughts

Few of us have ever realized that our combat is with the eternally defeated one.  How few folks know that Satan was eternally defeated when Jesus arose from the dead, that He couldn't have risen until Satan was defeated, and that Jesus was to be the Head of an unconquerable body!

-- E. W. Kenyon

Nothing Can Separate Us 11/13 Wednesday Wisdom

Then the Spirit triumphantly cries:  "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"
There can't be anything.  Satan has no ability to do it.  Circumstances can't do it:  sin can't do it because we have our own Advocate, we have our own Savior, our own Intercessor.  We are more than conquerors.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Boldly to the Throne of Grace (part 2) 11/12 Tuesday Truth

You come boldly now because they [the Father and the Son] have made you a New Creation.  They have made you the righteousness of God in Christ (II Corinthians 5:21).  You are now His very righteousness because you are a partaker of the Divine Nature.  You are a very son, a very daughter, and He is your own Father.
Can't you see what it can mean to you to come into a throne room under such conditions?  There is your Advocate.  There is your Savior.  There is your Lord on your side.
Can't you hear Him say, "How will He not with Him freely give you all things?"

-- E. W. Kenyon

Boldly to the Throne of Grace (part 1) 11/11 Monday Meditation

Can't you see what it means to have a High Priest, a Mediator, an Intercessor, an Advocate, and a Lover in the highest seat of authority in the universe? He ever lives to make intercession for you.
Now He bids you to come boldly to the throne of grace.  That means that you are to come into His presence with your needs.  You are in the throne room, and the Father that loved you and gave His Son up for you is on the throne.  The Man who loved you and gave Himself up for you is seated by His side, there to love you.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Man Needs an Intercessor (part 4) 11/8 Friday Faith

When we lose our sense of righteousness, and the adversary has gained the ascendancy: then we make the confession of our sins and we cry for mercy.  Jesus takes up our case. 
He is the Righteous One.  He can stand for us.  When we lose our sense of Righteousness, He can restore us again to our fellowship.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Man Needs an Intercessor (part 3) 11/7 Thursday Thoughts

I Peter 5:7, "Casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you."
The Father's love is manifest in the intercessory work of His Son.  He is not only our High Priest and Savior and Mediator, but whenever we sin and our fellowship is broken, we have Someone at the right hand of the Father Who ever remains faithful.
I John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

-- E. W. Kenyon

Man Needs an Intercessor (part 2) 11/6 Wednesday Wisdom

[Jesus's] ministry of intercession is little appreciated by the believer.  In every temptation, in every trial, and at every hard place, Jesus ever lives to pray for us.  That is the reason for your victory.
Paul says in Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me."
Strength comes through His intercession.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Man Needs an Intercessor (part 1) 11/5 Tuesday Truth

Man not only needs a Mediator, but after he becomes a Christian, he is living in a world dominated by Satan and needs an Intercessor, someone who will pray for him, whose prayers are always heard.
Hebrews 7:25, "Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them."

-- E.W. Kenyon

Exercise Yourself in the Word 11/4 Monday Meditation

Philippians 1:20 gives us a beautiful illustration:  "According to my earnest expectations and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death."
Paul wanted Christ to be magnified in his body, through the things he did and said.  He wanted Jesus to be magnified, made attractive, so that men would want Him.  This can only come as we exercise ourselves in the Word.

-- E. W. Kenyon

The Living Word in Your Lips 11/1 Friday Faith

Just as you walk in Love, live Love, breathe Love, now you walk in the conscious authority and ability of that Word in your life.  You see, it is the living Word in your lips that heals sick folks, that saves lost men, that puts courage and strength into the faint-hearted...  You say to yourself, "The Word of God in my lips is as effectual as it was in the lips of Peter or John, because it is the Word of my Father that I am using."

--E. W. Kenyon

Become So Strong in the Word 10/31 Thursday Thoughts

You see, you become so strong in the Word that you dominate the circumstances around you.  You understand that faith is not the product of sense evidences, but faith is something that grows out of your spirit that has walked in the Word, lived in the Word, and in which the Word has lived and dominated, until it becomes utterly one with the Word.

-- E. W. Kenyon

This Victory Becomes Ours 10/30 Wednesday Wisdom

It is Jesus' combat with the adversary for us before He arose from the dead.  He was our substitute, and His combat with the adversary was our combat.  He defeated Satan, stripped him of his authority before He arose from the dead.  This victory becomes ours when we remember that the adversary that is combating us is conquered, that he is our subject instead of our master.  Then we should say, "In Jesus' Name, demon, you leave me," and he must go.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Our Spirits Can Become God-Minded 10/29 Tuesday Truth

Our spirits can be so developed, so strengthened, that we will become God-minded, Word-minded.  In the morning our minds unconsciously go to Him for guidance and wisdom for the day.  We have exercised ourselves in the Word until our whole being is saturated with it.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Meditating in the Word 10/28 Monday Meditation

The man who controls his meditation will control his conduct and control his speech.  When we learn the secret of meditating in the Word, yielding our minds over to the Word,... our meditation will be sweet unto Him, and we will rejoice in Jehovah.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Doing the Word 10/25 Friday Faith

Committing the Word to memory does not do it; learning the history of the books of the Bible does not do it; learning the Hebrew and the Greek words will not do it.  Only one thing will do:  my doing the Word, practicing it, living it in my daily life, trusting in it, acting on it. 

-- E. W. Kenyon

Build Up Your Wisdom Life 10/24 Thursday Thoughts

Just as we have exercised ourselves physically to build up muscle, as we have exercised mentally to build up memory and store our minds with facts and data, so we now should build up our Love life, build up our wisdom life, build up our creative energy.
How? By feeding on the Word of God.  The Word is God's wisdom, God's ability, God's very Life.  As I feed on it, it cultivates, strengthens, and builds up my spirit.  It builds faith into me.  It builds God's ability into me.  It builds into me every attractive thing that you saw in Jesus' life.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Born of God 10/23 Wednesday Wisdom

I John 3:2, "Beloved, now are we the sons of god."
John 1:13, "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."
This should forever settle the question of whether there is anything that an unsaved man can do to give to himself the New Birth outside of his acceptance of Christ as his Savior and Lord.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Our Chief Difficulty 10/22 Tuesday Truth

Our chief difficulty has been the sense of unworthiness which has robbed us of faith and fellowship with the Father.
This is due to our ignorance of what we are in Christ, and of what the New Birth means to the Father, and may mean to us.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Recreated 10/21 Monday Meditation

Ephesians 2:10, "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus."
When you know that you have been recreated by God Himself, you know that the work is satisfactory to the Author of the work.
It gives you a real foundation for faith.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Christianity Is a Relationship 10/18 Friday Faith

Christianity is a relationship between the Father and His Family.
It is not a religion.
It is not having your sins forgiven.
It is not joining the church.
It is being made a New Creation in Christ; it is being born from above.
It is receiving the Nature and Life of God.
It is being united with Christ.

--E. W. Kenyon

Revealed to Our Spirits 10/17 Thursday Thoughts

We ought to understand that the Father does not reveal Himself to our reasoning faculties but to our spirits.
Our reasoning faculties can only apprehend the things that the five senses convey to them.
Outside of that, the reasoning faculties are unfruitful.
When our spirits are recreated they receive Eternal Life.
We can know the Father.  We can enjoy fellowship with Him through His w=Word.  We have become so utterly identified with Him, so utterly one with Him, that the "vine and the branch" is the only suitable illustration of this new and beautiful relationship.

- E. W. Kenyon

Recreated by Love 10/16 Wednesday Wisdom

We have become New Creations.  We have been recreated by Love.  Love has been imparted to our spirits.
God is Love, and God's nature is Love; but God is also Life, the Author of Life.
So He has imparted to us His Life Nature, His Love Nature.
God has imparted His Nature to us, making us New Creations.
That Nature is Righteousness.  It is Holiness.  It is Reality.  It is Love.
It has been imparted to us.

-- E. W. Kenyon

A New Creation Comes Into Being 10/15 Tuesday Truth

II Corinthians 5:17, "Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold they are become new."
His old sin consciousness, his old fallen life, his old sin life, and his old evil habits that grow out of Spiritual death, have passed away.
He is a new Creation.  He is a New Being.
The Father has no memory of his past life.  He is a new-born babe.
His old past life has stopped being in the Mind of the Father.
A New Creation has come into being through grace. 

-- E. W. Kenyon

Sukkot -- The Feast of Tabernacles 10/14 Monday Meditation

Sukkot, or The Feast of Tabernacles, begins at sundown Sunday evening, Oct. 13, 2019, and continues for seven days.  It is the seventh and final festival, in the seventh month, lasts seven days, and required 70 sacrifices.  This festival commemorates the 40 years that the Hebrew people wandered in the wilderness and lived in booths (tabernacles), or flimsy temporary dwellings.  During this festival Jewish families each build and decorate a sukkah outdoors and spend a lot of time in it.  It is a joyful festival, and it is the only festival in which God commanded joy.  For Christian believers today, it represents our earthly temporary home and the joyful anticipation of the spiritual rest in the heavenly Kingdom.
For those who study the Scriptures in the light of the Hebrew culture, there are several clues that Jesus may have been born during Sukkot. 
It was during this festival (John 7:37), during the elaborate water-pouring ceremony, that Jesus announced that He is the Living Water (John 7:37-39)  It was at this festival, with its nighttime illumination ceremony, that Jesus said that He is the Light of the World (John 8:12; 9:5).
The Pilgrim fathers probably patterned the first Thanksgiving in part after the Feast of Tabernacles.

His Ability Is Our Ability 10/11 Friday Faith

Ephesians 1:19-23, "And what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places."
That ability is our ability.  That ability is the Spirit's, Who dwells within you, and in that Name that He has given us to use in our daily conflict with the enemy.

-- E.W. Kenyon

His Ability at Work Within Us 10/10 Thursday Thoughts

(The first sentence ties in to what Yom Kippur foreshadowed.)

Then He took His own blood and carried it into the heavenly Holy of Holies and sealed our Redemption.  Having accomplished this, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Ephesians 2:5,6 says that we are seated together with Him.  He is the Head of the Body.  We are the members.
John 15:5 tells us that He is the Vine and we are the branches.
Philippians 3:10 is Paul's marvelous prayer:  "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection."
For it is that ability that was manifest in His resurrection.  It is that ability that is at work within us.

--E. W. Kenyon

Yom Kippur -- The Day of Atonement 10/9 Wednesday Wisdom

Yom Kippur -- The Day of Atonement -- the second of the fall festivals of the Old Testament, begins Tuesday, Oct. 8 at sunset and ends Wednesday, Oct. 9 at sunset this year.  This is the holiest day of the Jewish year.  It is the only commanded day of fasting in the Bible.  It is the only day of the year that the High Priest, himself having gone through numerous purification ceremonies, went into the Holy of Holies to offer sacrifice for the sins of the people, and the scapegoat was sent into the wilderness to carry away the people's sins.  It was a foreshadowing of that day when Jesus our High Priest would sacrifice Himself as a final substitute for our sins. 
If you would like to read more, here is an article about Yom Kippur.

It’s not a day for saying, “Happy Holiday.” Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement – is a serious and solemn day. It is the holiest day of the Jewish year, and its observance includes “afflicting oneself” with fasting. The customary greeting on Yom Kippur is “May you have an easy fast.”

It may sound heavy and somber, but on the holy day of Yom Kippur, one can also find hope.

In ancient Israel, Yom Kippur was the one day of the year on which the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies. This was the innermost area of the Temple separated by a thick curtain and housing the Ark of the Covenant. It was also the place where God’s presence dwelled.

The High Priest brought a smoking pan of incense into the Holy of Holies, and he sprinkled the blood of a bull and a goat onto the Mercy Seat of the Ark. Through the blood, he first made atonement for his own sins and then for all Israel’s. After this, Israel’s sins were symbolically placed on the head of a second goat, called the scapegoat, which was then led outside the camp and abandoned. It was a picture of purging Israel of her sins.

Today, according to the biblical commands, Jewish people attend synagogue services and do no work on Yom Kippur.* God ordained it as a day to afflict oneself, so we fast for 25 hours from food, water and certain pleasures and luxuries.

Rabbis teach that on Yom Kippur, God seals (makes final) the judgments that He made at Rosh Hashanah on individuals for the coming year. Yom Kippur ends an annual period of reflection in which, for 40 days, the focus of Jewish hearts is on repentance and seeking God’s favor for the year ahead. With no Temple, this spiritual work of the heart replaces the biblically ordained sacrifices of Yom Kippur.

The season begins with the Jewish month of Elul (in August and September on the Gregorian calendar) leading up to the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Charitable giving and mending relationships are heightened pursuits at this time of year.

The hope of Yom Kippur is found in the covering of sin and a restored relationship with God. King David, in Psalm 32, describes the weight of his unconfessed sin, saying that its heaviness drained him of strength. When he confessed to God, God forgave him and his burden was lifted.

“Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said: ‘I confess my transgressions to Adonai,’ and You forgave the guilt of my sin.” 
––Psalm 32:5

In Psalm 51, considered by many to be Psalm 32’s companion, David asks God to wash him, making him white as snow. He begs for a clean heart, restoration and forgiveness. “Then my tongue will sing for joy of Your righteousness,” he says. (Psalm 51:9, 12, 16).

Repentance and forgiveness usher in a renewed relationship with God. This is Yom Kippur’s hope.

As Messianic Jews, we recognize the fulfillment of hope given to us eternally through Messiah Yeshua (Jesus). Yeshua entered the heavenly Holy of Holies with His own blood, serving as both High Priest and sacrifice, to completely atone for our sin.

“We have this hope as an anchor of the soul, both firm and steady––a hope that enters the inner place behind the curtain.”
––Hebrews 6:19

We have been “set right by His grace” and possess “the confident hope of eternal life” through Yeshua our Savior (Titus 3:4–7). God has sealed our names in the Book of Life and given us the Holy Spirit as a pledge affirming this (Ephesians 1:13, 4:30). And when Yeshua died, the Temple curtain closing off the place where God’s presence dwelled ripped in two from top to bottom (Matthew 27:51).

Yom Kippur highlights the hope offered to all in Yeshua. For Messianic Jews, Yom Kippur is a solemn day to acknowledge the high cost of our sin and stand before God in humble gratitude for this gift and the provision of forgiveness, cleansing and eternal life through Messiah Yeshua.

This year, Yom Kippur begins at sunset on Tuesday, October 8 and ends at sundown Wednesday, October 9.

*See Leviticus chapter 16 and 23:26–32 and Numbers 29:7–11 for the biblical instructions for Yom Kippur.

Joy is a Fruit of Faith 10/4 Friday Faith

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

Joy is something that only believers have.  The world may have happiness.   They find that in their surroundings, their environment.  But joy is a fruit of faith.  It is a fruit that comes from the recreated spirit.

-- E. W. Kenyon

My Peace 10/3 Thursday Thoughts

I will be on vacation and will not be posting Monday or Tuesday, October 7-8.

"My peace I give unto you."
It is not the world's peace.  It is not the peace of mind, but it is the peace of the heart.  It is a heart peace.
Isaiah 26:3 is a prophecy of the church, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind (imagination) is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee."

-- E. W. Kenyon

Three Great Words 10/2 Tuesday Truth

There are three great words that describe the condition of the believer who is taking advantage of his privileges in Christ -- rest, peace, and joy.  These three words are the fruit of full-grown faith.
John 14:27:  "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful."

-- E. W. Kenyon

Nothing Can Separate Us 10/1 Tuesday Truth

Romans 8:38-39: ... "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
He enumerates everything that can come to a man or a woman, every calamity that can possibly come in our earth walk, and tells us that none can separate us from the love of our Father.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Rosh Hashanah -- Feast of Trumpets 9/30 Monday Meditation

I'm going to take a one-day break from E.W. Kenyon to teach a little about a biblical festival.

The Old Testament Feast of Trumpets (aka Rosh Hashanah) begins at sunset, Sunday, Sept. 29 and continues for two days.  It is also known as Jewish New Year (ushering in the year 5780), although that connection is not found in the Bible and wasn't made until after AD 200.

The Feast of Trumpets is the most mysterious festival.  God's commend was: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation" (Lev. 23:24).  No explanation!  It was called "The Day That No Man Knows" because no one knew the reason for the command.  It was also called "The Day and the Hour That No Man Knows" because they didn't know exactly when the first sliver of the new moon would appear.  (It is the only festival that starts on a new moon.)

The Hebrews would have had no way of understanding that the feast points to the Second Coming of Messiah because He hadn't come for the first time yet.  Jesus was referring to this when He said,  “But of that day and hour no one knows" (Matt. 24:36).  If the fall festival are fulfilled literally, as the spring festivals were at Jesus's first coming, Jesus may return on Rosh Hashanah.  

The spring and fall holy days were all foreshadowings of Jesus, so they still have meaning for Christians today.  

Here is an additional article if you care to know more:

Jewish tradition teaches that God created the world on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei. ​["In the beginning" (Genesis 1:1) spelled backwards in Hebrew, is "On the first of Tishrei"] This Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah (Roshe Hah-SHAH-nah), which means “head of the year.” This year, Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on September 29 and ends at sundown September 30.

This date is also the day God appointed as the Feast of Trumpets, or in Hebrew, Yom Teruah (Yohm Tare-OO-ah). The two holidays combine to begin the Fall Feasts of the Jewish year.

The Rabbis teach that at Rosh Hashanah, God pronounces judgment on each of His people for the coming year and that He seals that judgment on Yom Kippur (Yohm Ki-POUR), or the Day of Atonement.

Therefore, Rosh Hashanah and the days leading up to it are a time for self-examination and repentance as Jewish people seek God’s forgiveness and favor for the coming year. The 10 days after Rosh Hashanah are known as the Days of Awe when we intensify our reflection and focus on repentance and making amends with others. The Rabbis teach that during this time, God may yet alter what was to be an unfavorable decree on someone and grant a good year ahead.

As Messianic Jews, we know that God has sealed Believers in Yeshua with the Ruach HaKodesh (ROO-akh Ha-ko-DESH), the Holy Spirit, sealing us until the time of the Messiah’s return in glory (Ephesians 1:13-14).

Jewish people celebrate Creation and the start of a new year in synagogue services with special liturgy, prayers and blessings. Because the New Year falls on the Feast of Trumpets, services also include 100 blasts of the shofar (SHO-far), a trumpet made from an animal horn. Family celebrations include special meals and sweet foods to symbolize the hope of a sweet new year. Apples dipped in honey are a traditional treat. Holiday greetings include “A Good and Sweet Year!” and “For a Good Year!”

Messianic Jews also recognize that there is a prophetic aspect to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Teruah. All the Jewish Feasts that God ordained in Leviticus chapter 23 in some way serve as pictures of the coming Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus). The Spring Feasts of Passover, First Fruits and the Feast of Weeks contain prophetic images of Yeshua’s first coming – specifically, His death, resurrection and the giving of the Holy Spirit.

The Fall Feasts hold foreshadows of events related to His second coming – the prophesied last trumpet call, His final judgments on the earth, the redemption of Israel as they recognize their Messiah, and the coming Messianic age when Yeshua will reign as the Son of David over all the Earth . The Feast of Trumpets is often associated with the initiation of the Messianic Age and the raising of the dead in Messiah.

May your new year be blessed with sweet and good things from God’s hand.

Satisfied With Going to Church 9/27 Friday Faith

Facebook Memories reminded me of this quote from a year ago, which is one of my all-time favorite faith quotes.  So I'm going to end the week with this blast from the past:

The reason the world today is not seeing this is because Christian people are not filled with the Spirit of Christ. They are satisfied with going to church, 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 to everything in the old life. All the old things will have passed away, and all things will have become new -- all things are of God. You will see that as you are wholly yielded to God, your whole being will be transformed by the Spirit's indwelling. He will take you in hand so that you may become a vessel unto honor.

--Smith Wigglesworth

His Blood Avails 9/26 Thursday Thoughts

"And the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin."
That is effective as long as we are in fellowship.
The correct meaning of the word "sin" is "missing the mark."
As long as I am in fellowship with Him, I may miss the mark again and again, but His blood avails for me.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Breaking Fellowship 9/25 Wednesday Wisdom

When we break fellowship with the Father by refusing to do His will, and step out of love, we walk in darkness.  That minute the Bible stops being a living message to us...
All bitterness and criticism and unkindness is the product of broken fellowship.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Father, Forgive Me 9/24 Tuesday Truth

(continued from Monday)  I look up to the Father and say, "Father, forgive me for doing that thing."  And the moment I do, He forgives me. It is wiped out as though it had never been.  The instant that I confess it and tell the Father of it, Jesus says, "Lay that to My account."
Notice that the Father has no memory of your past mistakes and failures.  You must forget them too.

--E. W. Kenyon

Our Righteous Advocate 9/23 Monday Meditation

"My little children, these things I write unto you that ye may not sin.  And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."  [I John 2:1]
I think that that is one of the most marvelous statements in the whole of the Epistles.  Seated at the Father's right hand is our righteous Advocate; and the minute that I break fellowship, He is there in fellowship with the Father.  I lose my sense of righteousness.  He is the Righteous One.  He is there, in the Presence of the Father, to plead my case.  (to be continued)

--E. W. Kenyon

Fellowship Can Be Broken 9/20 Friday Faith

Fellowship can be broken because I willfully fail to do His will.  I step out of light into darkness.  I stop practicing love; and when I do that, I step over into darkness, want -- into Satan's territory.  I am filled with restlessness.
Joy is gone.  My fellowship with the Father is gone.
If I say that I have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, I lie and do not the truth.
"But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another (and with the Father), and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin."

-- E.W. Kenyon

Faith and Fellowship 9/19 Thursday Thoughts

Faith cannot grow without rich fellowship with the Father.  I don't care how much knowledge one has of the Word, if his fellowship is broken, his faith is crippled.  The adversary takes advantage of him and holds him to bondage.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Power in Our Fellowship 9/18 Wednesday Wisdom

(continued from Tuesday)  You may be a child of God, and have all the knowledge and the riches that belong to that marvelous relationship; but if you have no fellowship with the Father there is no joy in your life.  It is an empty, dry thing.  The power of our ministry lies in our fellowship...
Now what is that fellowship?  It is that sweet communion between your spirit and the Father.  It is that glad richness that comes through the unveiling of the Word to your spirit.
It is the quiet assurance that fills your heart with an unspeakable, irrepressible joy.

(to be continued)  -- E. W. Kenyon

Joy in Our Spirits 9/17 Tuesday Truth

One day I saw that the secret of Christianity, the secret of evangelism, was that we were to have joy in our spirits.
You remember Acts 13:52, "And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit."
I Peter 1:8 tells us that it is joy unspeakable and full of glory.
That didn't mean much to me until the Spirit unveiled it to me.  Then I saw the secret of this new thing that was to come with the New Creation.
"My joy I give unto you."  This is something indescribable that fills our spirits.
What does joy grow out of?  What is the secret?
I Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord."
Fellowship is the secret, it is the thing that gives joy.  When the fellowship is broken, the joy dies.

(to be continued)  -- E. W. Kenyon

The Love Law 9/16 Monday Meditation

John 15:10, 11, "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love."
Then we see in the ninth verse another secret, "Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love."
We are to walk in love and live love, and to keep His commandments.
John 12:34, 25 shows us that the Law of the New Creation, the law that governs the New Creation, is the love law.  We are to love one another even as He has loved us.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Your Body the Home of God 9/13 Friday Faith

Now you may have Righteousness; you may have Eternal Life.  You may have the consciousness of sonship.  You may have the great mighty Spirit come and make His home in your body, because that is the ultimate of the New Creation.
You see, you are recreated so that your body might become the home of God.
You remember I Corinthians 6:19-20, "Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?  For ye were bought with a price:  glorify God therefore in your body."

-- E. W. Kenyon

A New Nature In Us 9/12 Thursday Thoughts

That new creation is the product of God Himself.  He, through the Spirit, has given birth to a New Nature in us.
The old nature of failure, of sin consciousness, that was ruled by the adversary and was a part of the adversary, has stopped being.  A New Nature has taken its place.  We are now the very sons and daughters of God Almighty.
Romans 8:14-16 is a reality.  "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are (or have become) the sons of God."

- E. W. Kenyon

God's Nature Is Life 9/11 Wednesday Wisdom

God's Nature is Life.  Its first manifestations are Love, Joy, and Peace.
Satan's nature is spiritual death.  Its first manifestations are hatred, murder and deceit.  His whole realm is called darkness.
Colossians 1:13, "Who delivered us out of the power (authority) of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love."
Notice the contrast.  You have come out of the realm of Satan (spiritual death, hatred, and murder) into the realm of Life, of Light and Joy.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Make His Heart Glad 9/10 Tuesday Truth

I want to know Him.  I want to please Him.  I want to make His heart glad as that first Son did.  What a beautiful life it is.
It is not struggling to be righteous.  It is just struggling to make His heart glad.

-- E. W. Kenyon

You Are His Child 9/9 Monday Meditation

This is your relationship as a child of God.  You are in the Father, and the Father is in you.  That is, He has imparted His Life to you.  His very Nature has been given to you.  You are as much His child as Jesus was.
When your heart can take this in, He will become more to you, and you will realize something of what we are to Him.

--E. W. Kenyon

His Father Heart 9/6 Friday Faith

The Jews called Him God, and Jesus called Him Father.  The Church today calls Him God.  How few ever intelligently call Him Father.  How lonesome He must be. He is a Father God with a Father heart, and His people call Him God -- just "Mr. God," like they should speak of a neighbor.  Let us learn the secret of His Father heart.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Be a Father-Pleaser 9/5 Thursday Thoughts

Notice, "I do nothing of myself."  "I teach nothing of myself.  I teach what the Father taught me.  The Father is with me.  He hath not left me alone."
Why?  Because He [Jesus] was the Father-pleaser.
Do you know that every one of us can be that?  What a change it would make in life, wouldn't it?

-- E. W. Kenyon 

Trust Absolutely 9/4 Wednesday Wisdom

"My God shall supply every need of yours" (Philippians 4:19).
You want to learn to trust that absolutely. You want to trust Philippians 4:13:  "I can do all things in Him who strengtheneth me."  That must become a part of your very being.

-- E. W. Kenyon

The Love Nature 9/3 Tuesday Truth

Now that you have confessed the Lordship of the Master, it means that you have confessed the Lordship of His Word.  It governs your life.
You confess the Lordship of Love, that new kind of Love that has been shed abroad in your hearts by the Holy Spirit.  (Romans 5:5.)
You see, when you receive Eternal Life you receive the Nature of the Father; and the Father is Love.  You receive the Love Nature.  Now you let that Love Nature dominate and rule you.

- E. W. Kenyon

No Reason to be a Weakling 9/2 Monday Meditation

I Corinthians 2:14, "Thanks be unto God who always leadeth me in triumph in Christ."
That should be the song on the lips of every believer.  There isn't any reason for your being a weakling.  There is no reason for it whatever.  The strength and ability of God are yours. 

-- E. W. Kenyon

Our Right to the Throne of Grace 8/30 Friday Faith

Do you know what the fruits of your righteousness are?  You have become the righteousness of God in Christ.  That means that you have the ability to stand in the presence of Satan and all his works with utmost freedom, without a sense of inferiority.  You can stand in the presence of other men's failures, a victor.  You can walk into the Father's presence any time with boldness.  The Father has invited you to come with freedom of speech to the Throne of Grace and make your requests know.  (Hebrews 4:16.)  It may be for yourself, or it may be for others. You have a right here.

--E. W. Kenyon

The Sufficiency of God 8/29 Thursday Thoughts

II Corinthians 9:8-10 is a challenge from the very heart of the Master.  "And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all in everything, may abound unto every good work."
Here is the sufficiency of God at our disposal.
Here is the fullness of God spoken of in John 1:16:  "For of his fulness we have all received, and grace for grace."
This fullness or sufficiency, or ability of God belongs to every believer; and He has made it to abound to us that we, having "all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work."

-- E. W. Kenyon

His Ability Is Your Ability 8/28 Wednesday Wisdom

He can't fail you.  He is with you.  He is with you in the written Word; He is with you in the Jesus; He is with you in the Presence of the Holy Spirit.
That sufficiency of God is your sufficiency.  His ability is your ability.

E.W. Kenyon

You Need the Word 8/27 Tuesday Truth

How long have you been a Christian?  How long have you had Eternal Life?  Directly after you received Eternal Life you should have begun a careful study of the Word, for you never can tell when a crisis will come and you will desperately need faith in the Word.  You also need the Word every day.  You need that quiet, restful spirit.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Practice the Word 8/26 Monday Meditation

The Word is a dead word in the Bible on the table.  It only takes on life as we begin to act on it, as we give it place, as we practice it in our daily conduct.

-- E. W. Kenyon

He and His Word Are One 8/23 Friday Faith

We must realize that He and His Word are one; that man's word is a dying word; and that God's Word is a living, abiding Word.  The most cultured and beautiful sermon is dead as soon as it is given unless it is filled with the Word.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Part of Our Daily Lives 8/22 Thursday Thoughts

The Church will never exercise the Divine authority that belongs to it until the Word becomes a part of our daily lives...
This Word should govern us today.  Our lips should be filled with it.

-- E. W. Kenyon

The Word Grew Mightily 8/21 Wednesday Wisdom

Here are some facts about the Word these men preached:
It ruled their private lives.  It was magnified.  It increased; it grew, a living Power.  It multiplied.  Men were mastered by the Word.  Men proclaimed the Word.  Men gathered to hear the Word.
The Word grew mightily and prevailed in heathen cities.  The Word of grace is the revelation of the Ability of God to build Himself into the lives of men.

--E. W. Kenyon

Significance of the Name 8/20 Tuesday Truth

Then Barnabas takes Paul back to Jerusalem; and in [Acts 9] the twenty-seventh verse, "And declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to Him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the Name of Jesus."
I wonder if you are grasping the significance of the Name.  We have preached everything but the Name.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Name Above Every Name 8/19 Monday Meditation

Jesus is given the highest position in the universe.  He has the name which is above every name, with all the authority of God in it.  That name has been given to the Church , to us common folks, to use.  In that name we are masters of demons and their works.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Joy in His Name 8/16 Friday Faith

Jesus says that up to this time we have never asked anything in His Name, but that now He is giving His disciples the right to use His Name.  He uses this strange expression, "that your joy may be made full."
Happiness comes from circumstances.  Joy alone comes from the Lord.  There is to come to us a joy through the miraculous use of the Name of Jesus.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Faith Grows In Us 8/15 Thursday Thoughts

God is Love and God is Light; but God is also a Faith God; so when He gives us His Nature in the New Birth, there comes with that a measure of Faith to every one of us.
However, that Life has to dominate us.  It has to be sustained and fed with the Word; and as we act on the Word and live in the Word, Faith grows in us. 

-- E. W. Kenyon

The Word 8/14 Wednesday Wisdom

The Word preached by the apostles was the Living Word, the Life-giving Word, the Recreating Word, the Miracle-performing Word.
The Word given to us by the Holy Spirit through the apostles' lips (this would include the epistles) is not only a written Word, but it is a Living Word; it is a Life-giving Word; it is a Healing Word; it is a Prevailing Word; it is a God-indwelt Word.
In the lips of men of faith, the Word is filled with Faith, filled with Love, filled with Grace, filled with the very Nature and Life of God.
What a privilege it is to have in our lips this Living Word, this Life-giving Word.

-- E. W. Kenyon

The Place of the Word 8/13 Tuesday Truth

Acts 4:4, "But many of them that heard the Word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand."  It doesn't say that they heard the apostles, but that they heard the Word.
Acts 6:2, "And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the Word of God, and serve tables."
How early they learned the place of the Word!
Acts 6:4, "But we will continue steadfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word."
These were untaught men, fishermen. The Spirit had unveiled to them the place and dignity of the Word.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Fortunes in Our Bibles 8/12 Monday Meditation

I'm going to interrupt my E. W. Kenyon quotes to share this quote from a friend's Facebook page.  A.B. Simpson was a close friend of E.W. Kenyon and was the founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance.

"Many of us have fortunes in our Bibles without knowing it, or without using our infinite resources. The Holy Spirit is given to us to be used for every sort of need; and yet, with all the power of heaven at our call, many of us are going about in starvation, simply because we do not know our treasure, and do not use our redemption rights."

-- A. B. Simpson

Give as He Gave 8/9 Friday Faith

God so loved that He gave.  I so love that I give.  I so love that I give my time; I give my money; I give my ability.  I lay it all upon the altar of grace.
He loves you now and He wants you to love Him as He loved you.  He wants you to give as He gave.
You can't give as much, but you can give with the same spirit of love that He gave, can't you?

-- E. W. Kenyon

How Jesus Could Love 8/8 Thursday Thoughts

I never could get it clear in my heart how Jesus could love the man who was putting the lash upon His back, or how He could love the man, and die for him, who put the nails through the palms of His hands and feet; but I imagine that if you had been back there near the sepulchre when Jesus arose from the dead, you would have heard Him say, "Where is the man who plaited the crown of thorns and placed them upon my brow?  I want to tell him that I died for him, that I suffered the torments of the damned for him."

-- E. W. Kenyon

You Have Eternal Life Now 8/7 Wednesday Wisdom

Eternal Life is the Nature and Life of the Father.  You have that now.  You  have become, by the New Creation, by the impartation of God's very Nature, the righteousness of God in Christ.
Few people are established in that.  Few appreciate or understand it, or have ever entered into its fullness.
It means that you can stand in the Father's presence, just as Jesus, without the sense of inferiority, that you can stand in the presence of Satan and all his works with the same fearless grace that Jesus had.  (II Corinthians 2:14-15.)

-- E. W. Kenyon

Effects of Your Prayer Life 8/6 Tuesday Truth

"I am thy God.  I am your Father.  I am your Strength.  I am your Wisdom and your Ability.) (II Corinthians 3:4-6.)
When you are established in that, fixed and secure, you become a world-ruler in the spiritual realm.  Men can feel the effect of your prayer life in Europe, Asia and Africa.  (John 14;13-14.)  The demons that rule the warring elements of Europe and Africa are afraid of you, and they are afraid that you will turn the mighty influence of your lips and prayers against them.  (John 15:7.)  You are established at last in the very heart of God -- established in Love.

--E. W. Kenyon

What More Do You Want? 8/5 Monday Meditation

Can't yo hear Him whisper (Isaiah 41:10), "Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee:  yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."  What more do you want?

--E. W. Kenyon

Vine and Branch Are One 8/2 Friday Faith

John 15:5, "I am the vine and ye are the branches."
No one can touch a branch without hurting the vine.  The vine and the branch are one. You are a part of Him, and He is a part of you.  He is taking care of you.  You are established in this truth.  All hell knows it, too.  (James 2:19.)

--E. W. Kenyon

That Great Rock 8/1 Thursday Thoughts

Rest under the shadow of that great Rock in this weary land; and you hear someone saying, "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us."
You know who you are, what you are.  (I John 3:2.)  You know Who is backing you up, Who is protecting you.  For it is God who is at work within you working ad willing His own precious will.  (Philippians 2:13.)

--E. W. Kenyon

God Is For You 7/31 Wednesday Wisdom

Romans 8:31-38 is God's photograph of the established believer... Here is the first sentence:  "If God is for us, who is against us?"  We should be established in that.
You know that scripture is yours. You know that God is for you.  You know that He is your Father and that He gave up His Son to die for us; and you know that He has given us His own Nature, His own life.  (I John 5:12-13.)

-- E. W. Kenyon

Established in Truth 7/30 Tuesday Truth

Every believer should be established in this truth.  So many are established in weakness; they live under the shadow of it.  Others are established in sickness and infirmities.  (James 5:14-17.)
Others are established in fear, in the sense of sin, the sense of lack and inability.  (Isaiah 41:10.)
We want to learn to be established in the Word.

-- E. W. Kenyon

A Victor, A Conqueror 7/29 Monday Meditation

Every believer should know what the Name of Jesus can mean to him in his daily life, so that no matter what happens, he is a victor, a conqueror.  (John 16:24.)
"In my name ye shall cast out demons."  (Mark 16:17-20.)
You can cast out all demons if you cast out a demon, and you can cast out the work of a demon.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Established in the Word 7/26 Friday Faith

Every believer owes it to himself to be established in the Word, to be settled and fixed so that he will not be wafted about by every wind and storm.  (Ephesians 4:14-16.)
He should know what he is in Christ, know it so thoroughly that no matter what happens he stands unruffled, unaffected.  (Ephesians 1:3-7.)
He should know what Christ is to him, and what He has done for him, and what He is  doing for him now (I Corinthians 1:30; Philippians 1:16; and Hebrews 7:25.)

-- E. W. Kenyon

Saturated With God 7/25 Thursday Thoughts

Ephesians 1:3 brings to us, "Blessed be the God and Father of my Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed me with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ."
How it thrills the heart!  He has blessed us with the fullness of Himself.  As the air is saturated with moisture, so your spirit and body are saturated with God.  You have received the gift of grace which means the unveiling of the Father's very purpose in you in such abundance that people are affected by what you say.
You are rooted and grounded in love.  Men are affected by it; selfishness shrinks and shrivels in the presence of this love life in you.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Abundance of His Nature 7/24 Wednesday Wisdom

"I am come that ye might have life and have it abundantly (or in abundance)" (John 10:10).
The Father wants you to have the abundance of His Nature.  He wants your whole spirit and soul swallowed up in His Life (II Corinthians 5:4).
He wants you so dominated by His Nature that Satan can gain no advantage over you.

-- E. W. Kenyon

My All-Time Favorite Quote 7/23 Tuesday Truth

Facebook reminded me that a year ago today I posted my all-time favorite quote, which I repeat every year or two:  

God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary, and live on a lower plane, can do so; but as for me, I will not! For the same unction, the same zeal, the same Holy Ghost power is at our command as was at the command of Stephen and the apostles. We have the same God that Abraham had, that Elijah had, and we need not come behind in any gift or grace.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Working in Me 7/22 Monday Meditation

You must not forget that you have Him inside you, the One Who raised Jesus from the dead.  He is actually there.
Read... Ephesians over and over again until it prevails in your life; then whisper, "God is working in me according to His ability (for that word power means ability).  His grace, His love, His Life is effectually working in me."

-- E. W. Kenyon

A Bundle of Diseases 7/19 Friday Faith

If Satan has been adroit enough to deceive us and to bring along a bundle of diseases and place them at our door and tell us that they are our diseases, that they have our names on them, and we are unwise enough to sign up for them, that is unfortunate.  Now were are instructed, however, and we know the truth.
We say, Satan, whose diseases are these?"
He says, "They are yours."
We say, "We beg your pardon.  Our diseases were borne by Jesus.  If you have any diseases, sir, they are your own; and in the Name of Jesus, I command you to take them away."
We hold fast to our confession that "surely He hath borne our sicknesses and carried our diseases"; and because He did it,  it is well done and perfectly done; so we hold fast to that confession. 

-- E. W. Kenyon

Begin to Live the Word 7/18 Thursday Thoughts

Begin to live the Word.  Begin to take your place right now as a son or daughter in the family.  You whisper, "Father, I am what You say I am.  I can do what You say I can do in Christ.  I can do all things in Him Who strengtheneth me" (Phil. 4:13).
God is the very strength of your being now.  (Psalm 27:1; Philippians 4:13)

-- E. W. Kenyon

Persecuted for Righteousness 7/17 Wednesday Wisdom

Matthew 5:10, "Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Men won't persecute you for your righteousness; that will be Satan.  He will bring scandal upon your life.  He will make you look unrighteous.  When he cannot make you be unrighteous, he will scandalize you.
But you remember Isaiah 54:17, "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn."
... They may rob you of your reputation, but they cannot ouch your spirit. You stand invincible.  You are the righteousness of God in Christ.

-- E. W. Kenyon

A Branch of the Vine 7/16 Tuesday Truth

You are a new Creation.  If all you ever had was forgiveness of sins, Satan could claim you for his own.  He could say, "You are mine."  But now he has been defeated.  He looks upon you as a New Creation, a branch of the Vine, Jesus, Who conquered him.
The only thing he can do now is to hinder that branch from bearing fruit.

-- E. W. Kenyon

In Christ 7/15 Monday Meditation

"Wherefore if any man is in Christ..."  Every man is in Christ who has acknowledged Him as Saviour and Lord. That expression, "in Christ," is a legal phrase.  It means that I have received the Nature and Life of God into my spirit and that I am now a branch of the Vine.  It means that the old things of my past life have stopped being and that all things have become new; and all these thing are of God Who has reconciled me to Himself.

-- E. W. Kenyon

So Long As I Walk in Love 7/12 Friday Faith

So long as I walk in love, Satan is a defeated being as far as I am concerned.  When I step out of love, I step over into no man's land, where Satan has access to me.  When I walk in the light as He is in the light, Satan has no dominion over me.

--E. W. Kenyon

Let Him Govern You 7/11 Thursday Thoughts

Let Him have His way with you.  Let Him govern you.  Don't be afraid of Him. No one loves you as He loves you.  He is the strength of your life.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Responsible for His Sheep 7/10 Wednesday Wisdom

The shepherd is responsible for the protection of the sheep.  He is responsible for their food and water, and so my Shepherd, Jesus, says, "I am the Bread of Life.  He that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst."
How that fits into the thought of the shepherd.  He leads me down where the waters are gentle and quiet. He takes me back then where the alfalfa is rich.  In every place in life He cares for me.
You can almost hear Paul say, "My God shall supply every need of yours" (Philippians 4:19).
Or, Ephesians 1:3, "Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ."
He is my Protector and Caretaker.  He is my Shield.  No enemy can touch me.

-- E. W. Kenyon 

Walk in His Will 7/9 Tuesday Truth

We have thought that the Father's will would be hard, and we shrank from doing it.  But, instead, it is a will of Love.  As you walk in the Father's Will, you always walk in the Light. You will never injure anyone.  Your words will be saturated with love.  You will walk in the light, for His will is the Light.  You will walk in Love, for His will is Love.

--E. W. Kenyon

The Family of Overcomers 7/8 Monday Meditation

Our faith took us into the family of overcomers. Our faith made us sons and daughters of God.  Our faith has made us the very righteousness of God, has made us New Creations of God.
"And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?"
You stand before the world as God's overcoming son.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Nothing Impossible 7/5 Friday Faith

I took the Fourth of July off without prior notice.  Sorry for any inconvenience.

What He did in the dead body of Jesus, He can do in your life.  He can take your lips with God's Words filling them, and lead men to Christ, heal the sick, cast out demons, break the dominion of sin and fear over the minds of men and women...
Hear Him whisper, "If g]God is for you, who can be against you?  I can do all things in Him Who strengtheneth me.  Lo, I am with you always.  Nothing shall be impossible to you.  God is the strength of your life.

-- E. W. Kenyon

You Rest in Him 7/3 Wednesday Wisdom

Your Heavenly Father knows your needs, knows your surroundings, the opposition, knows the whole thing.
You rest in Him.  You are His child; you are in His family; you are a branch of the Vine.  He is the Husbandman.  He cares for the vineyard.  He knows about it.  You are His fruit-producer.  You are His connection with the unsaved world. You are His connection with the church and the people in your community.  You have His life, His nature.  You have His light and wisdom.  You have His love.  You have Him.  He lives in you.  By giving Him His place, you let Him have freedom in you.

--E. W. Kenyon

Master of Circumstances 7/2 Tuesday Truth

When one is master of circumstances, he has taken on his rights and privileges in Christ.  The Word has become a reality.  He says fearlessly, "I can do anything that my Father wishes me to do, because greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world."
Just as Jesus said, "I came down from God," you say, "I am from God, and I am an overcomer; because greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world" (I John 4:4).
So, you see the secret of living is living in His word.  That is His will.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Jesus Takes It Over 7/1 Monday Meditation

When you pray in that Name, Jesus takes it over.  Then it is in His care.  It is no longer your burden as long as you do not repudiate it by a wrong confession.  He is your standby.  Your prayer is based upon His Word.  It is His business to make it good.

--E. W. Kenyon

Never Go Back on Your Prayers 6/28 Friday Faith

It is of vital importance that after we have prayed we never go back on our prayers.  Many repudiate the Word by the confession of a doubt or admission of a doubt into their consciousness.

-- E. W. Kenyon

What Does Sanctification Mean? 6/27 Thursday Thoughts

What does sanctification mean?  It means being set apart -- separation.
Who set you apart?  God set you apart.
Then what do you to to accept it?  As soon as you are Born Again and the Spirit comes to make His home in you and begins to build Jesus' Nature and Life into your spirit, you begin to separate yourself from the unnecessary things that have held you in bondage and kept you so occupied that you didn't have time for the best things.
A woman said to me, "I haven't time to study the Word.  I have so many things to do in my home."
A year or two afterward she was taken very, very ill.  Doctors said that an operation was the only hope, but that she had just very little chance -- one in one thousand.
I said, "You have plenty of time now for studying the Bible."  And she remembered.

--E. W. Kenyon

Restored to Righteousness 6/26 Wednesday Wisdom

Did you ever notice that if a man sins, he has an "Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous"?
Any man who commits sin loses his sense of Righteousness and is ashamed to go into the presence of the Father.  Then he asks forgiveness, and the Father listens to his Advocate, Jesus.  You see, Jesus is our Advocate and can plead for us who have lost our sense of Righteousness, and our Righteousness is restored.
"For if we sin, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
He forgives our sin that we have committed, and He cleanses us from unrighteousness and restores to us fellowship with Himself.

--E. W. Kenyon

Nature of God in Our Spirits 6/25 Tuesday Truth

Jesus actually conquered our enemy and delivered us out of his dominion.  When He did that, He made possible our New Creation, and when we were made New Creations we received the Nature of God in our spirits.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Delivered from Darkness 6/24 Monday Meditation

But He makes it clear in His Redemption spoken of in Colossians 1:13, 14:  "Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love."
Darkness is Satan's family relationship.  His kingdom is darkness.  Darkness is hatred,  jealousy, bitterness -- everything that Satan can impart to man.
We have been delivered out of that and have been delivered out of the authority of it, so that it no longer dominates us or rules us.
"And He has translate us by the New Creation into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in Whom we have our Redemption, the remission of our sins."

--E. W. Kenyon