A Visit With Our Father 9/1 Thursday Thoughts

This prayer habit will be born of your own will. This habit is hard to form for most people. It should never be a duty, for just as we do not enjoy those who visit us because it is their duty, so it is with the Father. We want those who love us to come because they cannot help it. Prayer is a visit with our Father. We should think of it as a rare opportunity. -- E. W. Kenyon.

Talking It Over With Him 8/31 Wednesday Wisdom

So we are laboring together with Him, and what we have considered personal needs are really His needs. The work that we are doing is His work, so that prayer is not what we have thought it was; but it is a fellowship, a sharing; it is community interest. ... So prayer is simply talking it over with Him, getting His views, His will, His plans, and our carrying out those plans with His grace, ability and wisdom. -- E.W. Kenyon.

As Enjoyable as Eating 8/30 Tuesday Truth

Prayer should be as natural as breathing and as enjoyable as eating. Prayer should be as unconscious as our communication with each other. It should not be the child of need, but should be based on a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with the Master so that our needs are His needs; for we are not our own, we are a part of Him. -- E.W. Kenyon

What Prayer Can Mean 8/29 Monday Meditation

Now we can see what prayer can mean. It isn't the old idea of getting on our knees and crying and begging. It is a son coming into the Father's Presence for one of our brethren who has been injured, or for one who for some reason cannot come and make his appeal personally. We come on his behalf and ask for a blessing. Or it may be that we are taking up the need of the great unsaved world. We stand there in fulness of Fellowship and fulness of Joy to get a portion for another. This is entering by the New and Living Way. This is coming boldly to the Throne of Grace. This is fellowshipping the Father. This is visitng with Him. -- E. W. Kenyon

The Prayer Responsibility 8/26 Friday Faith

If you don't take time to pray, you are losing out. You can't say that you have no responsibility in the prayer life, for you have. To see a need is to have a call to prayer. There are people who will be utterly lost unless you take your place. Unless you do your part, men will cry against you through eternity. You can't plead that you have too mcuh work to do. You can pray while you work. You can't put up the plea that you do not know how; you can learn if you wish. For you to disobey the prayer call is for you to disobey the call of your Father. The prayer responsibility today is the most important thing of our lives. -- E.W. Kenyon

Weakened Because of You 8/25 Thursday Thoughts

(continued) If anyone thinks that because of lack of training or for lack of this or that, he hasn't a place, he is deluded by the enemy. You have a place. With that place comes responsibility, and with responsibility comes a reward or demerit. If you do not take your place in the Family of God, in the Church, and begin to function, the body of Christ is weakened because of it. -- E.W. Kenyon

Everyone Has a Place 8/24 Wednesday Wisdom

Every one of us has a place in the prayer life. God has no unused members. There isn't a useless member in the physical body; neither is there in the spiritual body of Christ. God has planned with divine wisdom, the body of Christ; and the moment that you are born into that body, you have your place in which to function. (to be continued) -- E.W. Kenyon

Welcome to the Throne Room 8/23 Tuesday Truth

That love impels Him to call us to Prayer. That call is the proof of our ability to stand in His presence. It is the proof of His making us reighteous enough to stand in His presence without reproof or condemnation. It means that we are ever welcome to the Throne Room. How few of us have ever realized this. It is sons visiting their Father. It is children coming joyously into the presence of a Loving Parent. -- E.W. Kenyon

Introduction to E. W. Kenyon 8/22 Monday Meditation

I have quoted from E.W. Kenyon several times over the past 17 years. This series of quotes will be repeats from eleven years ago. E.W. Kenyon (1867-1848) was an evangelist, pastor, president of a Bible institute, and author who is best known for his many books which still remain popular today. These quotes come from his book, In His Presence. The call to prayer is the Father's invitation to visit with Him. This is more than the consciousness of a great need that often drives us to intercession. It is the call of Love to come and Fellowship. It is really visiting with the Father. Few of us have realized the fact that the Father's heart is hungry for the companionship of His children. His heart hunger is the reason for man and the reason for redemption. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." -- E. W. Kenyon

Final Maria Woodworth-Etter Quote 8/19 Friday Faith

This is my final quote from Maria Woodworth-Etter. I post Lep's Faith Quotes in 8 places on the internet and in an email group. I have had the most comments on Etter of anyone whom I have quoted in the past 17 years. Thank you. On Monday I will go back to quoting E.W. Kenyon, repeating some quotes I posted at least 6 years ago. We shall all sit down to the marriage supper of the Lamb. Oh, what a company-- apostles, martyrs, fathers, mothers, children, friends and neighbors, brothers and sisters in the Lord, ministers and converts! Oh, what a reunion, what a gathering that will be, as we look along the table at the bright and shining faces! Then to behold the dear Savior smiling on His children. Dear friends, will you be there? -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Resist the Devil 8/18 Thursday Thoughts

Friday's quote will be the last Maria Woodworth-Etter quote. If you've forgotten, she was a farm girl from east central Ohio who became a world-renowned tent evangelist in the late 1800's when women did not preach. On Monday I will begin to quote from E.W. Kenyon. Resist the devil in the name of the Lord. Sometimes, when I am standing up preaching, the devil tries to interfere. He would make me drop dead, if I would listen to him. I resist in the name of th eLord, and he has to go. (See James 4:7.) We have such a wonderful Savior! --Maria Woodworth-Etter

Calling for Soldiers 8/17 Wednesday Wisdom

Oh, hear the Master calling for soldiers! He says He will lead us on to victory. Oh, who will respond to the call? Who will place his name on the heavenly roll? Who will enlist in the war and help to conquer the mighty foe? Who will help to beat back the powers of darkness? He does not ask you to die, but to live forever. He will give a glorious bounty -- eternal life. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Building the Church 8/16 Wednesday Wisdom

God has left the glorious work of saving souls in the hands of the church. What is the church composed of? Men, women, and children. We are putting up a building of God. Everyone has a part in this building; if we cannot be a pillar or cornerstone, let us be a spike or a nail or a brick; let us not despise the day of small things. Whatever we do for Jesus, with the right motive, is precious in His sight. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

If He Had Stopped at Calvary 8/15 Monday Meditation

If He had stopped short at Calvary or at going down into the cold grave, His work would have been a failure. Many people look only at the dead Savior. They have only a dead religion of form and of works. They have no life or power. Remember Jesus brought life and immortality to light, to us, through the Resurrection. --Maria Woodworth-Etter

God Has Not Changed 8/12 Friday Faith

One of the elementary and fundamental doctrines of the Christian religion is... the fixed belief that God has not changed, and will not change, in His dealings with mankind as long as this dispensation lasts; that He is all powerful, and that He has not lost any of His power during the centuries that have elapsed since the days of the early church; that He is still faithful and true to fulfill all that He has promised to so, on the conditions specified in His Word; that He has not lost any of the love that He once had for mankind; and ... will do as much for us as He ever did for anyone else. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Claim the Promise 8/11 Thursday Thoughts

Claim the promise that He will shield us from all dangers, from all the arrows of the enemy, and from the pestilence: "There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come near thy dwelling" (Ps. 91:10). The promises contained in the 91st Psalm are for all of God's true children in these last days. Oh, glory to His name who lives forever and ever, who is able to deliver His children "out of all their troubles" (Ps. 34:16)! Then why should we fear when storms arise and trouble comes? (See Matthew 8:23-27.) We must have trials to perfect us for our future home. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Clothed With Light and Power 8/10 Wednesday Wisdom

Jesus said they hated Him without a cause. The real children of God are clothed with light and power, with the Holy Spirit from heaven, sent from the eternal throne of God. The world does not know us, because it did not know Him, so the devil brings all his forces into the battle against Jesus and His saints. But He that is in us is greater than all that are against us, and the Lord will fight our battles, if He has to bring down all the armies of heaven. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

We Had a Pentecost 8/9 Tuesday Truth

Conviction fell on the people, the fear of God made them tremble. The children of the Lord said, "We had a Pentecost." Praise the Lord! As Brother Talmage said, "We ought not to be looking at a dead Pentecost of the past, but we ought to have thousands of Pentecosts all along the way." -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Thousands in the Churches Lost 8/8 Monday Meditation

There are thousands in the churches today who think they are all right, think they have eternal life, but are in a lost condition. May God have mercy on blind leaders and false teachers, and send something to arouse them before they and their followers go down to hell together. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

No Thought of Going Back 8/5 Friday Faith

We commenced meeting in Oakland, California, October 28, 1889. The wet weather had set in. We pitched our tents during a rain, such as was never known in Oakland before. People looked on in wonder and amazement. From a human standpoint, everything looked dark and discouraging. Surely God's ways are not our ways. It takes a great deal of confidence, faith, and courage in God to move forward at His command not knowing one step of the way. Here we were in a starnge land, with our money about gone and no means to go back Keast. We confessed we were pilgrims in a strange country but knew we were seeking a city out of sight. We had no thought of going back until a great work had been done for the Master. We had no fear of suffering for lack of means; we knew our God would supply all our needs (Rom. 8:28). -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

This World Is Not My Home 8/4 Thursday Thoughts

People wonder at me traveling from one place to another, suffering all kinds of hardships, deprived of many comforts of life, exposed to wet and cold, heat and storms. I make this sacrifice for the Lord. Christ is all in all to me. This world is not my home. It has no attraction for me. I am laying up treasures in heaven. I have a mansion there that is built of pure gold, and it can never be destroyed or taken from me. Praise God for the privilege of leaving all to follow Jesus. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Never Get Discouraged 8/3 Wednesday Wisdom

The devil is mighty, but God is Almighty. Let no one who reads this ever get discouraged in doing the work of the Lord. There never was a meeting [tent revival] held under more discouraging circumstances. Everything was against us, nothing for us but God. He was more than all that was against us. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter

Glorious Work for God 8/2 Tuesday Truth

There was never a glorious work done for God but that the devil came around in person or in the form of a Judas and tried to overthrow it. -- Maria Woodworth-Etter