If You Believe in Him 10/1 Friday Faith

Faith in God, power with God, lies in the knowledge of the Word of God. We are no better than our faith. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. If you believe in Him, you are purified for He is pure. You are strengthened for He is strong. You are made whole because He is whole. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Power of the Holy Spirit in You 9/30 Thursday Thoughts

If you wish to be anything for God, do not miss His plan. God has no room for you on ordinary lines. You must realize that within you there is the power of the Holy Spirit, who is forming within you everything you require. -- Smith Wigglesworth

A Vital Power 9/29 Wednesday Wisdom

When a man is filled with the Holy Ghost, he has a vital power that makes people know he has seen God. He ought to be in such a place that if he should go into a neighbor's house, or out amongst people, they will feel that God has come in their midst. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Do What Pleases Him 9/30 Tuesday Truth

God wants you to be so balanced in spiritual unction that you will always be able to do what pleases Him, and not that which shall please other people. or yourself. --Smith Wigglesworth

Feast on the Word 9/27 Monday Meditation

Beloved, we get God's Word so wonderfully in our hearts that it absolutely changes us in everything. And as we so feast on the Word of the Lord, so eat and digest the truth, inwardly eat of Christ -- we are changed every day from one state of glory to another. You will never find anything else but the Word that takes you there, so you cannot afford to put aside that Word. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Another Hour 9/24 Friday Faith

[How does this contrast with our church services today? Why the difference?] The meetings ought to be so free in the Spirit that people would always go away with the feeling, "Oh, I wish the meeting had gone on for another hour." -- Smith Wigglesworth

Be In Tune With God 9/23 Thursday Thoughts

I always say that you cannot sing victory on a minor key. If your life is not in constant pitch, you will never ring the bells of heaven. You must always be in tune with God, and then the music will come out as sweet as possible. We must be the mouthpiece of God, not by letter but by the Spirit, and we must be so in the will of God that He will rejoice over us with singing. --Smith Wigglesworth

Righteousness 9/22 Wednesday Wisdom

God wants to fix it in our hearts that we are to be like Him; like Him in character. God wants righteousness in the inward parts, that we may be pure through and through. The Bible is the plumb line of everything, and unless we are plumbed right up with the Word of God, we will fail in righteousness. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Feast of Tabernacles -- Happy Birthday, Jesus 9/21 Tuesday Truth

FEAST OF TABERNACLES -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS! The final and most joyous festival of the year began at sundown Monday, September 20, 2021, and continues for seven days. It is called Feast of Tabernacles (or Shelters or Booths), Feast of Ingathering, Season of Our Rejoicing, or Sukkot. It celebrates God's care and protection during forty years of wandering in the wilderness and His continuing sustenance. It is a time of thanksgiving for the harvest, insuring their survival for another year. All Jews made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. They made and lived in temporary shelters (sukkah booths) recalling their years of wandering. In modern times families or congregations build outdoor shelters filled with harvest decorations and they often eat their meals and invite guests to visit their sukkahs. It was during the Feast of Tabernacles' illumination ceremony that Jesus said, "I am the light of the world." It was during the water pouring ceremony that Jesus said, "I am the living water." There is evidence by comparing time frames in the Scriptures to show that Jesus was born during the Feast of Tabernacles. Many Messianic Jews celebrate the birth of Jesus at this time and not at Christmas. "Jesus is God tabernacling among men. The word _dwelt_ in Greek implies a temporary dwelling, a sukkah booth. Jesus is God's ultimate sukkah booth. For God, in Jesus Christ, tabernacles among men. As the Temple was a temporary dwelling for the Shekinah (visible Glory of God), so Jesus tabernacling among us manifested the glory of God. He is the source of light and life to all who believe." (The Fall Feasts of Israel, by Mitch and Zhava Glaser) In God's timetable of the Fall Festivals, Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets) foreshadows the Rapture, Yom Kippur foreshadows the Final Judgment, and Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) represents the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in heaven.

I Delight to Do Thy Will 9/20 Monday Meditation

In Him we live and move, and reign over all things. It is no more "thou shalt not." It is God's will, revealed to us in Christ. "I delight to do Thy will, O God." And, beloved, in our hearts there is exceeding glory. Oh, the joy of the celestial touch this morning! -- Smith Wigglesworth

Possessing the Gifts 9/17 Friday Faith

But is there not a vast and appalling unconcern about possessing the gifts? Ask a score of saints chosen at random from almost any assembly, "Have you any of the gifts of the Spirit?" and the answer will be, "No," and given in a tone and with a manner that conveys the thought that the saint is not surprised at not having the gifts, that he doesn't expect to have any of them, and does not expect to seek for them. Isn't this terrible when the living Word exhorts us specifically to "covet earnestly the best gifts"? So in order that the gift might be everything and in evidence, we have to see that we cease to live excepting for His glory. He works with us, we work with Him, cooperative, working together. This is divine. Surely this is God's plan. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Be Ye Holy 9/16 Thursday Thoughts

I take the words of the epistle this morning, which says by the Holy Ghost, "Be ye holy." (I Peter 1:16). It is as easy as possible to be holy, but you can never be holy by your own efforts. When you lose your heart and Another takes your heart, and you lose your desires and He takes the desires, then you live in that sunshine of bliss which no mortal can ever touch. -- Smith Wigglesworth

The Meaning of Yom Kippur 9/15 Wednesday Wisdom

As you know, I like to educate Christians on their Hebrew roots. Yom Kippur begins at sunset Wednesday, Sept. 15, and ends at sunset Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. It is God's appointed day for atonement of sins. Jesus would have observed Yom Kippur, and He is the fulfillment of it. In biblical times, the high priest made animal sacrifices, and the scapegoat was sent into the wilderness to take away the sins of the people. from Wikipedia: According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a book, the Book of Life, on Rosh Hashanah, and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. During the ten Days of Awe, a Jewish person tries to amend his or her behavior and seek forgiveness for wrongs done against God and against other human beings... At the end of Yom Kippur, one hopes that their sins have been forgiven by God. Jesus is the fulfillment of Yom Kippur. By His blood sacrifice He has taken away our sins once and for all so that sacrifices are no longer needed. No longer do we need to "hope" that our sins have been forgiven.

Saved by the Power of God 9/14 Tuesday Truth

You are eternally saved by the power of God. Do not be led astray by anything, do not take your feelings for your salvation, do not take anybody's word for your salvation. Believe that God's Word is true. What does it say? "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." John 3:36 -- Smith Wigglesworth

The Secret of Spiritual Success 9/13 Monday Meditation

The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists. It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one's spiritual attainment... God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Let Him Do With You What Seems Good 9/10 Friday Faith

Therefore let Him do with you what seemeth Him good, for He has His hand upon you and He will not willingly take it off till He has performed the thing He knows you need. So if He comes with a fan, be ready for the fan. [fanning mill that separates wheat from chaff -- Lep] If He comes with chastisement, be ready for chastisement. If He comes with correction, be ready for correction. Whatever He wills to do, let Him do it and He will bring you to the land of plenty. Oh, it is worth the world to be under the power of the Holy Ghost! -- Smith Wigglesworth

God's Love Toward Us 9/9 Thursday Thoughts

I have great love for my boys in England, great love for my daughter here; but it is nothing in comparison to God's love toward us. God's love is desirous that we should walk up and down the earth as His son, clothed, filled, radiant, with fire beaming forth from the countenance, setting forth the power of the Spirit... -- Smith Wigglesworth

Your Will 9/8 Wednesday Wisdom

When your will becomes entirely the will of God, then you are clearly in the place where the Holy Ghost can make Jesus Lord in your life, Lord over your purchases, Lord over your selling, Lord over your eating and your drinking, your clothing and your choice of companionship. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Never Be Weak Anymore 9/7 Tuesday Truth

I am satisfied that as we get to know the Son of God, we will never be weak anymore, the tide will be so turned. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Feast of Trumpets / Rosh Hashanah 9/6 Monday Meditation

Feast of Trumpets / Yom Teruah / Rosh Hashanah / Jewish New Year. Perhaps you have seen this holiday printed on a calendar and didn't have any idea of its significance. This biblically-mandated holy day begins at sundown on Tishri 1, 5782 (September 6, 2021). God spoke in Leviticus 23:23 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘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. 25 You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.’ ” This is the only one of the seven biblical festivals for which no reason is given. The true reason for this festival becomes apparent only in the New Testament when we learn of the blowing of "the last trumpet" when Jesus returns. The first four festivals were fulfilled literally in the life of Christ. The three fall festivals will be fulfilled in The Last Days. "Ancient Jewish tradition held that the resurrection of the dead would occur on Rosh Hashanah." (The Feasts of the Lord, by Kevin Howard and Marvin Rosenthal)

Get Lost in Him 9/3 Friday Faith

Never let us do anything to lose this divine love, the close affection in our hearts that say, "Not I, but Christ, not I, but Christ!" I want to say forget yourself and get lost in Him. Lose all your identification in the Son of God, let Him become all in all, seek only the Lord and let Him be glorieied. You will have gifts, you will have grace, and wisdom. God is waiting for the man that will lay all on the altar, 52 weeks in the year, 365 days in the year, and then contiue perpetually in the Holy Ghost. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Greater Is He 9/2 Thursday Thoughts

Anything that takes me from an attitude of worship, peace, and joy, of consciousness of God's presence, has a satanic source. Greater is He that is in you. -- Smith Wigglesworth