Successful Prayer Life 12/30 Friday Faith

Have a blessed new year! The successful prayer life is one of self-denial. It is a recognition of His Lordship, a giving up of much that is not wrong in itself but that hinders and takes our time. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Sharing With Him: Part 3 12/29 Thursday Thoughts

You and He are working together. You see, He has made you not only a New Creation and a Son, but He has made you a partner in this work. You are the fruit-bearing part of the company. You are the hands and feet and the voice of the company. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Sharing With Him: Part 2 12/28 Wednesday Wisdom

The highest order of prayer is a dialogue: you and He conversing about His work. You are there to talk things over with Him. You are a son taking a son's place. You are not conscious of your standing or righteousness. You are intent upon doing His will, carrying out His will. You and He are working together. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Sharing With Him: Part 1 12/27 Tuesday Truth

The highest order of prayer is a love affair: two lovers meeting, sharing with each other. Not slaves and the master; neither servants and an overlord; but a Father and His children. We come together as suggested in Matthew 18:19-20: "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything they shall ask of the Father, it shall be done for them." This is not talking at Him. Much praying is merely talking at the Father. This is a meeting together. Jesus said, "There am I in the midst of them." It is a business meeting. It is a meeting in loving council. You speak telling your needs, then wait, listening for Him to bring to you the Word of assurance. -- E.W. Kenyon.

If We Are In His Will 12/24 Friday Faith

This will be the last quote until December 27. Have a blessed Christmas! No matter how much you pray, your prayers will not be effective until you know His will. 1 John 5:14-15: "And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us; and if we know that he heareth us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him." That settles the issue. If we are in His will, our prayers are heard and answered and we get the thing for which we are praying. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Love's Right to the Father's Ear 12/22 Thursday Thoughts

When we come to understand love's intimacy, love's privileges, love's right to the Father's ear, we may run into His presence at any time without an apology and lay our needs before Him -- not only our personal needs, but the needs of those about us. We can enjoy the ability and wisdom of our Father, and we will go out with that strange, sweet fragrance that is found only in the Throne Room, a fragrance that will cling to our garments. Yes, our very words will have in them Love's own sweet fragrance. Men willl know that we have been with Jesus, have been in fellowship with Him. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Light of Life 12/21 Wednesday Wisdom

I have found that Light of Life. I am no longer walking in the darkness of sense knowledge [believing only what I can see]. I am no longer crippled by my inferiority complex or my sense of unworthiness. I know that I am a son beloved; that I have my place in the Father's presence. -- E.W. Kenyon.

The Ability of God 12/20 Tuesday Truth

You not only received the Nature of God, but when the Spirit came into your life you had in you the ability of God, the very Resources of Heaven. No one yet knows the limit of that ability. It must be exhaustless. Col. 2:9-10 gives us a suggestion. "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodiy, and in him ye are made complete or full, who is the head of all principality and power." Take with that Gal. 2:20, "For it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me." He has come into me in all His fulness. -- E.W. Kenyon.

A Faith Man 12/19 Monday Meditation

Faith makes man God-like, just as love makes him God-like. God is a faith God, and when man links up with God, he becomes a faith man. He and God work together, and walk together. 2 Cor. 5:8: "We walk by faith, and not by sight." The believer is a faith person. He does not walk by reason. He does not walk by sense knowledge. He lives and walks in the realm of faith. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Faith Words 12/16 Friday Faith

It is our words that destroy or build. It is words that are filled with faith or unbelief. Faith words are constructive. The man who inspires faith is a builder. He is constructive. The man who inspires unbelief is an enemy of progress. Faith is giving substancve to the Word of God. It is giving substance to things we have hoped for. -- E. W. Kenyon.

Spirit 12/15 Thursday Thoughts

We contact God with our spirits, not with our reasoning faculties. No one can find God except through his spirit. No one can know God except through his spirit. This is the reason that sense knowledge men in the scholastic world repudiate the Bible; because sense-governed reason cannot understand the Bible or its author. One must receive God's nature before spiritual things become intelligible. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Everything You Need 12/14 Wednesday Wisdom

Now just take this thing home to your heart and read Ehesians 1:3, "Who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ." You are blessed with everything that you need. His very fullness is yours. His ability is yours. His love is yours. Yes, He Himself if yours! -- E.W. Kenyon.

My Life of Prayer 12/13 Tuesday Truth

I remember that years ago I was praying for money to meet our rent bill. I had prayed. Then I went out on the street and I began to wonder how I could get it. Before I realized it I had destroyed my prayer. I had nullified the Word. I came to myself, asked for forgiveness, and then began to thank Him for it. I held myself steady and kept my heart singing songs of victory. That was the beginning of my life of prayer. - E. W. Kenyon.

Whatever I Ask 12/12 Monday Meditation

If you say over and over again, "I know whatever I ask of the Father in Jesus' Name, He will give it to me," after a while that truth will permeate your consciousness until it becomes a literal, absolute fact in you. Men and women will come to you for prayer. They have not learned the secret. They haven't any faith of their own. But they have faith in your faith, because you have learned the secret of confessing to be what God says you are. -- E.W. Kenyon

Your Confession 12/9 Friday Faith

You never rise above your confession. If you always confess your failings, your weaknesses, your lack of ability, your weakness and your lack of ability will rule you. If you say, "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me," you will rise to the level of it. You never enjoy anything beyond your confession. Your faith is never stronger than your confession... If you dare say, "I am a branch of the vine, and the same life and love that flows in the vine flows in me, " you will rise to the level of your confession. -- E. W. Kenyon.

Pray All Night?? 12/8 Thursday Thoughts

But you say, "Don't you think sometimes it is necessary to pray all night? Jesus did." If we knew the nature of Jesus' prayers during those night sessions that might help us. If you have needs enough that it would take a whole night to cover them, then you should take the night. "Don't you think that we should keep on praying until our prayer is answered?" No, I think instead we might remind Him and thank Him for it. Unbelief becomes insistent, thinking that by works of some kind it can force God to answer. We are going to act on His Word just as we act on the word of any firm or company. We are going to act on His Word simply as intelligent men and women act on the word of a bank or any other institution that has a record of honesty. Remember, God cannot lie. He watches over His Word to make it good. The man that trusts Him is absolutely as safe as Jesus was when He trusted His Father. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Real Prayer 12/7 Wednesday Wisdom

God is the strength of our life. What more can we ask? Can't you see what this means as a background for a prayer life? Can't you hear the Spirit whispering, "Nay, in all these thing we are more than conquerors?" Real prayer is inspired of the Spirit, backed up by the Living Word. Then it should be a real sharing with Him. -- E. W. Kenyon.

The Throne Room 12/6 Tuesday Truth

And if we are in His will, then we are certain that our prayers are answered. We don't try to force Him to answer them. We don't tease Him like some children do their parents until they wear their parents out... We come into the throne room, that room of love gifts, into the very presence of the Father, and we talk things over with Him. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Hope 12/5 Monday Meditation

Hope is always future. Faith is always now. Someone comes to me and asks me to pray for them, and I say, "Was the prayer answered?" And they answer, "I hope it was." Then I know it will not be answered, and I frankly tell them. "No, the Hoper's prayers are seldom answered." Hope is a beautiful thing when it is about Heaven, or the coming back of the Master, and everything that belongs to the future. But for present-tense practices and present-tense life, hope is a dangerous enemy. It is beautifu, but it is dangerous! The Hoper is always a failure. It is the Believer that is a success -- and believeing, you remember, is acting on the Word. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Christianity Is Our Confession 12/2 Friday Faith

You see, Christianity is our Confession. Hebrews 4:14 He says, "Let us hold fast our confession." What is our Confession? Why, that God is our Father, we are His Children, we are in His Family. It is a Confession that our Father knows what our needs are and has made provision to meet every one of them. It is a Confession of the finished work of Christ, of what I am in Him, and what He is in me. It is a Confessiion that "greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world." It is my confesion that my God does suppply every need of mine according to His riches in glory. It is my Confession that when I pray, the Father hears my prayer and answers me. -- E.W. Kenyon.