Leap Into Eternity 8/1 Monday Meditation

If the pale messenger of death should come for you today, would you take a leap into eternity, and hear the Judge say: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire ... [where] there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (Matt. 25:41, 51) or would you go shouting home to glory? God help you to make heaven your home. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Takes Away Fear 7/29 Friday Faith

Oh, praise the Lord for His tender care over us and for His wonderful salvation that fills our souls with glory; that takes away the fear of persecution, the fear of man, and the fear of devils; and makes us rejoice in the midst of trials, remembering that "all things work together for good to them that love God" (Rom. 8:28), etc.; that takes away the fear of death, and as we look at the grave we hear a shout from Calvary saying, "I am the resurrection and the life" (John 11:25). Death is the gate to glory. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Victory Every Time 7/28 Thursday Thoughts

If the Holy Spirit is dwelling in our hearts and shining out through our lives and actions; if we, by faith, take God at His Word, we will find at all times and places that His grace is sufficient, and He will give us victory every time. We must claim the victory by faith, before the walls fall (Josh. 6:20). -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

God Has Promised 7/27 Wednesday Wisdom

Let me say for the encouragement of those who are starting in the work of the Lord, God has promised to be with us always, even to the end. We are nothing but the clay God speaks through. It is "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts" (Zech. 4:6). -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

The Wonderful Love of God 7/26 Tuesday Truth

Oh, the wonderful love of God! The half has never been told. It never can be told. It will take all eternity to tell of the redeeming love in the wonderful plan of redemption to a dying world. Dear readers, will you not give up all and follow Jesus, and meet me in that beautiful land where sorrow will never come? -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Never Be Discouraged 7/25 Monday Meditation

Today I switch to Maria Woodworth-Etter's autobiography, Signs and Wonders. Praise God, the work is going on, and the wilderness of sin has been made to blossom as the rose! Where there was cursing and blaspheming, there is singing and praising God. Let us never be discouraged, but lean hard on God, and He will give us victory every time, if we only trust Him and give Him the glory. Praise God for victory through faith in His promise and through the efficiency of the blood of the Lamb! -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Are We Watching? 7/22 Friday Faith

This is the last of the quotes from Maria Woodworth-Etter's collected works. However, on Monday I will start quoting from her autobiography, Signs and Wonders. It is harder to find good stand-alone quotes in an autobiography. Oh beloved, are we watching? Are we waiting? Will we be ready to escape all the awful things that are coming on the earth? To many who are looking, it will be a day of darkness, and there will be no light in it for them. He will come as suddenly as a flash of lightning, and we will be taken as quickly. He will come with all the brightness of heaven. The saints will see all His glory and will hear all the bells of heaven ringing. Amid the singing of the great angelic choir, they will be caught away, swallowed up in all this brightness and glory. But the poor lost world will sleep on, not knowing what has happened. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Brotherhood of Man 7/21 Thursday Thoughts

Fear God, for the hour of his judgment is at hand. Can you not see these things? People are preaching the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, but they are leaving out the blood of Christ entirely. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Show What He Can Do 7/20 Wednesday Wisdom

God is calling us to give this old world the last call. He is taking men and women whom He can trust with His power to show forth His goods to the world. A traveling salesman shows his goods and secures orders. If he did not show his goods, he would not get the orders. People want to see the goods before they purchase them. So God calls us to show the samples. We are not only to tell what God can do, but to put Him to the test and show what He can do. --Maria Woodworth-Etter

Become a Philadelphian 7/19 Tuesday Truth

He warns us that we will have trouble. We will be persecuted. We will be misrepresented by false prophets who call themselves "Jews" -- or, in today's term, "great Christians" and "leaders" -- but who are of the "synagogue of Satan" (Rev. 2:9), who lie, and who do not practice the truth (v. 9; see also 1 John 1:6). Come out of the "Laodicean" church, which represents spiritual lukewarmness, and become a "Philadelphian." (See Revelation 3:7-12; 14-21). -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

We Shall Be Like Him 7/18 Monday Meditation

We now bear the image of Adam, the first man, but our fleshly bodies will be changed and made "like unto his glorious body" (Phil. 3:21). Our mortal bodies will be changed into immortal bodies (1 Cor. 15:53-54). In the same body He had before His crucifixion, Jesus ate fish with His disciples after He rose from the dead; it will be the same with us, for "we shall be like him" (1 John 3:2). Our bodies will be resurrected or translated and glorified. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

We Will Be True to God 7/15 Friday Faith

The disciples met together and they knew that the demonstration of the power of God had caused all their persecution. They knew that if they had a form of religion but denied the power (see 2 Timothy 3:5), they would have no more trouble with the authorities. But, beloved, they said, "We will be true to God. We will preach the Word if we die." -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

God Has a Gift for You 7/14 Thursday Thoughts

God says He has a gift for you. Oh, "the gift of God is eternal life" (Rom. 6:23). When you receive this gift, then you are God's man. You are no longer a stranger or foreigner, but have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Through Him, you will have access to the Father by one Spirit. You are a citizen with the saints and of the household of God; you are a living stone (I Peter 2:5) in the building that is being fitly framed together, a holy temple in the Lord. (See Ephesians 2:12-22). -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

The Prayer of Faith 7/13 Wednesday Wisdom

That is a good place to be -- way up above the world with the devil under your feet. How beautiful on the mountain are the feet of those who are running up the mountain and hurling down the glad tidings that Jesus is coming! (See Isaiah 52:7.) That is a good place to go in order to pray, if you pray correctly. Bless the Lord, it is not the long prayer or the loud prayer that is effective but, hallelujah, the prayer of faith. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Kings and Priests 7/12 Tuesday Truth

We are a nation despised and hated, a "nation not desired" (Zeph. 2:1). The devil hates us, and all his imps hate us. But Jesus says, "Come, hide away. Come together: bind yourselves together and get ready for the 'manifestation of the sons of God' (Rom. 8:19). 'Fear not, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom' (Luke 12:32)." He will make us kings and priests in the sight of our God (Rev. 1:6). Kings and priests -- glory to God! -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Get Ready 7/11 Monday Meditation

So God is warning you through His saints and getting people ready. He is sending out the warning in every direction, telling people to escape from the city of destruction and not to linger in the plains. Put on your wedding garments, accept the invitation, and get ready to take the flight through the air. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

The Wise Will Know 7/8 Friday Faith

When Jesus comes, there will be tribulation and a time of trouble on the earth such as was never known before. The darkness will be so great the people will be able to feel it. When Jesus comes to catch His bride away, there will be a time such as the world never heard of before. . . You will not be overtaken as by a "thief in the night" (1 Thess. 5:2), for you are the children of light. The wise will know. Glory to God.

When These Things Come to Pass 7/7 Thursday Thoughts

When you see the things that are making the world turn pale and tremble -- when these things come to pass -- lift up your heads and rejoice. Rejoice at every calamity, because it will soon be over. Although the disciples sighed and cried, they still rejoiced because they knew they were saved. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

True Wisdom 7/6 Tuesday Truth

No man can understand "the deep things of God" (I Cor. 2:10) except by the Spirit. Paul had much knowledge, but He said that the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the sight of God (3:19). True wisdom comes from heaven. The Word must be preached in simplicity. Jesus had the eloquence of high heaven at His command, yet He used langauge that the most uneducated could understand. Preach in a simple way and demonstrate. The seal is put upon the Word by the Holy Spirit. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter