I come across some who would be giants in the power of God but they have no shout of faith. I find everywhere people who go down [fail] even when they are praying simply because they are just breathing sentences without uttering speech, and you cannot get victory that way. You must learn to take the victory and shout in the face of the devil, "It is done!" There is no man who can doubt if he learns to shout.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
Sometimes I say to people, "You weren't at meeting the other night." They reply, "Oh, yes, I was there in spirit." I say to them, "Well, come next time with your body also. We don't want a lot of spirits here and no bodies. We want you to come and get filled with God." When all the people will come and pray and praise as did these early disciples there will be something doing. People who come will catch fire and they will want to come again. But they will have no use for a place where everything has become formal, dry, and dead.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
This will be the last post for this week. Happy Thanksgiving!
The power of Pentecost as it came at first came to loose men. God wants us free on every line. Men and women are tired of imitations, they want reality; they want to see people who have the living Christ within, and are filled with Holy Ghost power.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
Wednesday's post will be the final post of the week. Happy Thanksgiving!
Note the word of [Acts 4] verse 31, "And when they had prayed, the place was shaken..." There are many churches where they never pray the kind of prayer that you read of here. A church that does not know how to pray and to shout will never be shaken. If you live in a place like that you may as well write "Ichabod -- the glory of the Lord has departed" -- over the threshold. It is only when men have learned the secret of prayer, of power, and of praise, that God comes forth. "Well, I praise God inwardly," but if there is an abundance of praise in your heart, your mouth cannot help speaking it.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
God wants you to know that you are saved, cleansed, delivered, and marching to victory. Faith to believe! God has a plan! Set your affections on things above, get into the heavenly places with Christ.
...Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind... - Romans 12:2
-- Smith Wigglesworth
Therefore lift up your heads -- the devil makes you remember the day you failed, you would give the world to forget. God had forgotten. When He forgives, He forgets. God wants to make us pillars, honorable, strong, holy.
--Smith Wigglesworth
God's Word is a tremendous word, a productive word producing what it is. Power; producing God-likeness. We get to heaven through the Word of God, we have peace through the blood of His cross. Redemption is ours through the knowledge of the Word. I am saved because God's Word says so.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. - Romans 10:9
-- Smith Wigglesworth
God has a plan for us in this life of the Spirit. This abundant life. Jesus came that we might have life. Satan comes to steal and kill and destroy, but God has for us abundance, full measure, pressed down, shaken together, overflowing, abundant measure, God filling us with His own personality -- presence -- making us salt and light and glory as revelation of Himself. God with us in all circumstances, afflictions, persecutions, in every trial girding us with truth. Christ the initiative, the Triune God, in control of our every thought, word, action, must be in line with Him with no weakness or failure. One God -- a God of might, light, revelation preparing us for heaven.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
The name of Jesus is so marvelous. Peter and John had no conception of all that was in that name; neither had the man, lame from his mother's womb who was laid daily at the gate; but they had faith to say, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk." And as Peter took him by the right hand, and lifted him up, immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength, and he went into the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising god. God wants you to see more of this sort of thing done. How can it be done? Through His name, through faith in His name, through faith which is by Him.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
If you will see Him as God's Lamb, as God's beloved Son who had laid upon Him the iniquity of us all, if only you will see that Jesus paid the whole price for our redemption that we might be free, you can enter into your purchased inheritance of salvation, of life, and of power.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
Yes, He loved Peter, the wayward one. Oh, He's a wonderful lover! I have been wayward, I have been stubborn, I had an unmanageable temper at one time, but how patient He has been. I am here to tell you that there is power in Jesus and in His wonderful name to transform anyone, to heal anyone.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
Stephen cried out, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" (Acts 7:60). As he was full of the Spirit, he was full of love, and he manifested the very same compassion for his enemies that Jesus did at Calvary. This being filled with the Holy Ghost means much in very way. It means constant filling, quickening, and a new life continually. Oh, it's lovely! We have a wonderful Gospel and a great Savior! If you will be filled with the Holy Ghost, you will have a constant spring within, yea, as your faith centers in the Lord Jesus, from within you shall flow rivers of living water.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
The Lord Jesus came to bring peace, and soon after you get peace within you get persecution without. If you remain stationary, the devil and his agents will not disturb you much. But when you press on and go the whole length with God, the enemy has you as a target. But God will vindicate you in the midst of the whole thing.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
Persecution is the greatest blessing to a church. When we have persecution we will have purity. If you desire to be filled with the Spirit you can count on one thing, and that is persecution.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
How is it that the moment you are filled with the Holy Ghost that persecution starts? It was so with the Lord Jesus Himself... The devil and the priests of religion will always get stirred when a man is filled with the Spirit and does things in the power of the Spirit. (to be continued)
-- Smith Wigglesworth
None of you can be strong in God unless you are diligently and constantly hearkening to what God has to say to you though His Word. You cannot know the power and the nature of God unless you partake of His inbreathed Word. Read it at morn and at night, and at every opportunity you get.
--Smith Wigglesworth
The life that He freely bestows is a gift. Some think they have to earn it and they miss the whole thing. Oh, for a simple faith to receive all that God so lavishly offers. You can never be ordinary from the day you receive this life from above. You become extraordinary, filled with the extraordinary peace of our extraordinary God.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
As you receive God's Word into your being, your whole physical being will be quickened and you will be made strong. As you receive with meekness the Word, you will find faith upspringing within. And you will have life through the Word.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
The Psalmist said that he had hid God's Word in his heart, that he might not sin against Him, and you will find that the more of God's Word you hide in your heart, the easier it is to live a holy life.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
There are many good people, people who mean well, but they have no power to do anything for God. There is just some little thing that came in their hearts years ago, and their faith has been paralyzed ever since. Bring everything to the light. God will sweep it all away if you will let Him. Let the precious blood of Christ cleanse from all sin. If you will but believe, God will meet you and bring into your lives the sunshine of His love.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
