When I Know Him 7/31 Friday Faith

"This is the work of God, that ye believe."  Nothing in the world glorifies God so much as simple rest of faith in what God's Word says... When I know Him, there are any amount of promises I can lay hold of, then there is no struggle, "For [he] that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened" (Matthew 7:8).

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Victory Is Ours 7/30 Thursday Thoughts

If you are left alone -- alone with God -- and you cannot get to a place of victory, it is a terrible time.  You must never let go, whatever you are seeking -- fresh revelation, light on the path, some particular need -- never let go.  Victory is ours if we are in earnest enough.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Get Alone With God 7/29 Wednesday Wisdom

Jacob was left alone, and unless we get alone with God, we shall surely perish.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

When the Veil is Lifted 7/28 Tuesday Truth

Many things may happen in our lives, but when the veil is lifted and we see the glory of God, His tender compassion over us all the time, to be where God is, how wonderful it is.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Never Look Down 7/27 Monday Meditation

Never look down, because then you will only see the ground and miss the vision.  All blessings come from above; therefore keep your eye on Jesus.  Never weary.  If you do not fall out by the way, He will be with you to strengthen you in the way.  Hallelujah!

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Something Different! 7/24 Friday Faith

I first saw this picture on Facebook a week ago.  It made quite an impression on me.  In case you're not familiar with it, the object on the right is a Torah scroll, which contains the first five books of the Bible handwritten in Hebrew.  This picture reminds me of a few Scripture passages.  Feel free to add more verses in the comments.

• Praisers, declaring the Word of God, went out to battle in front of the Hebrew army in the Old Testament.
• 2 Cor. 10:4  For the weapons of our warfare are not [carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.
• Eph. 6:11-13  Put on the WHOLE armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the  wiles of the devil.  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the WHOLE armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day.
• Heb. 4:12  For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword.
  

My All-Time Favorite Quote 7/23 Thursday Thoughts

Facebook Memories always reminds me that, on this date the year before, I reposted my all-time favorite quote.  So here is its annual appearance:

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

I Have a Jesus Like That 7/22 Wednesday Wisdom

I HAVE A JESUS LIKE THAT, who can speak the word, and the thing is done; I have a Jesus indwelling me and vitalizing me with a faith that believes it is true; I have a Jesus within me who has never let me get faint-heated or weary.  Let us press on in faith along the line of God's will, and the outpouring which have longed to see will come.

- Smith Wigglesworth

Lifting Me Higher 7/21 Tuesday Truth

If I obediently walk before God and keep my heart pure and clean and holy and right, He will always be lifting me higher than I have ever expected to be.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

A Deluge of the Spirit 7/20 Monday Meditation

Some people get a wrong notion of the baptism [of the Holy Spirit].  The baptism is nothing less than the third person of the blessed Trinity coming down from the glory, the executive Spirit of the triune God indwelling your body, revealing the truth to you... until your bowels yearn with compassion, as Jesus yearned, to travail as He travailed, to mourn as He mourned, to groan as He groaned.  It cannot be otherwise with you.  You cannot get this thing along a merely passive line.  It does not come that way...  O that God might bring from our hearts the cry for such A DELUGE OF THE SPIRIT that we could not get away till we were ready for Him to fulfill His purpose in us and for us.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Ready for Every Emergency 7/17 Friday Faith

Nehemiah stood before the king because of trouble in Jerusalem which had nigh broken his heart.  He was sorrowful, and it affected his countenance; but he was so near to God that he could say:  "I have communed with the God of heaven."  And if we believers are to go forth and fulfill God's purpose with us, the Holy Spirit must be constantly filling us and moving upon us until our whole being is on fire with the presence and power of God.  That is the order of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.  The man is then ready for every emergency.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Fixed Solidly 7/16 Thursday Thoughts

A man who is baptized with the Holy Ghost has a Jesus mission.  He knows his vocation, the plan of his life.  God speaks to him so definitely and really that there is no mistaking about it.  Thank God for the knowledge which fixes me so solidly upon God's Word that I cannot be moved from it by any storm that may rage.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Sonship: Lay Hold of the Promises 7/15 Wednesday Wisdom

The thought that specially comes to me today is that of sonship.  The Spirit brings us to a place where we see that we are sons of God.  And because of this glorious position we are not only sons but heirs, and not only heirs, but joint-heirs.  And because of that, I want yo to see that all the promises of God are yea and amen to you through Jesus in the Holy Ghost.  If the Spirit of God that raised Jesus from the dead is in you, that power of the Spirit is going to quicken your mortal body.  And it beings me into a living place to believe that as an adopted child I may lay hold of the promises.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

That Name of Jesus 7/14 Tuesday Truth

Oh, that name of Jesus!  We make too little use of that name... If we would let ourselves go, and praise and praise and praise Him, God would give us the shout of victory. 

-- Smith Wigglesworth

A Living Touch from God 7/10 Friday Faith

I will not be posting a Monday quote.  See you Monday afternoon with a Tuesday quote.

I have been asking God to send us His Word that is on fire; something that will live in our hearts, that will abide with us forever.  It is important that every day we should lay some new foundation that can never be uprooted.  Oh, for a living touch from God, and a new inspiration of power, and a deeper sense of His love!

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Given All Things 7/9 Thursday Thoughts

You have not to try to bring Him down; He is down; you have not to try to bring Him here; He is here.  If we will obey the Lord there is nothing He will not give us since He has given us Jesus. The Spirit will have to reveal to us that fact that, because He has given us Jesus, He has given us all things.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

Kept in the Spirit 7/8 Wednesday Wisdom

What does it mean to this generation for us to be kept in the Spirit?  All human reasoning and all human knowledge cannot be compared to the power of the life that is lived in the Spirit.  We have power to loose, and power to  bind in the Spirit.  There is a place where the Holy Ghost can put us where we cannot be anywhere else but in the Spirit.  But if we breathe His thoughts into our thoughts, and live in the unction of the Holy Spirit as He lived, then there will be evidences that we are in Him; and His works we will do.  But it is only in the Spirit.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Eyes Fastened Upon Him 7/7 Tuesday Truth

Oh, beloved, may God help us this afternoon to get our eyes off the conditions and symptoms, no matter how bad they may be, and get them fastened upon Him, and then we shall be able to pray the prayer of faith.

--Smith Wigglesworth

Introduction to Smith Wigglesworth 7/6 Monday Meditation

Starting today I'll be quoting from Smith Wigglesworth for possibly a year.  I last quoted from him four years ago.  Wigglesworth (1859-1947)  grew up in England in the days of child labor.  He quit school at age 7 to work.  His wife taught him to read.  He would never read anything but the Bible.  He never wrote a book; all quotes are from his sermons, which were transcribed as he preached.  He had no confidence that he could preach until his wife, herself a well-known preacher, put him on the spot and announced that he would be preaching the service. Wigglesworth was a "Pentecostal pioneer" who had one of the greatest evangelistic and healing ministries of all time.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Wigglesworth

There is a wonderful fellowship with Jesus.  The chief thing is to be sure that we take time for communion with Him.  There is a communion with Jesus that is life, and that is better than preaching.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Is Your Life Making an Impact? 7/3 Friday Faith

This is the conclusion of the Frank Bartleman quotes.  I will begin with Smith Wigglesworth on Monday.

Before closing may I say, Is your life making an impact where God has put you?  Are you a channel through which the rivers of living water are flowing day by day?  If the answer is "No," are you willing for it to become true?  Are you prepared to get on your knees and say, "Lord, whatever it may involve, make my life a channel for those rivers of living water!  Continue to recover Your church, according to Your great purpose, and let me be a living part of that glorious recovery"?

-- Frank Bartleman

Pathway to Revival 7/2 Thursday Thoughts

One significant difference between the early church and the church today is this:  they believed in the Holy Spirit while we are afraid of the Holy Spirit; they knew the Holy Spirit experientially while we so often know Him only theologically and theoretically.  Will we at last let Him have His way?  This is the pathway to revival.

-- Frank Batleman