The Secret of Spiritual Success 10/5 Monday Meditation

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Secret of Spiritual Success 10/5 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

Our God Is an Active God 10/2 Friday Faith

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Our God Is an Active God 10/2 Friday Faith Our God is an active God. His thunder is just as loud today as it was in the first century. His lightning is just as vivid as it was in the days of the early church. The sound of the mighty rushing wind is just the same today as it was on the day of the Pentecost. Pray for the violent blasts of wind from heaven, expect them, and you will get them. And do not be afraid of them. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Be Like Him 10/1 Thursday Thoughts

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Be Like Him 10/1 Thursday Thoughts One thing God wants to fix in our hearts is to be like Him. Be like Him in character. Don't be troubled so much about your faces but be more concerned about your hearts. All the powder won't change the heart. All the adorning of silks and satins won't make purity... Righteousness in the inward parts. Pure through and through. -- Smith Wigglesworth

A Vital Power 9/30 Wednesday Wisdom

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: A Vital Power 9/30 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

The Making of a Missionary 9/29 Tuesday Truth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Making of a Missionary 9/29 Tuesday Truth It takes three to make a missionary. One goes, one prays, and one gives. -- Frank Bartleman

God's Church Is One 9/28 Monday Meditation

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: God's Church Is One 9/28 Monday Meditation We belong to the whole body of Christ, both in heaven and on earth. God's church is one. It is a terrible thing to go about dismembering the body of Christ. How foolish and wicked the petty differences between Christians will appear in the light of eternity. Christ is the "issue", not some doctrine about Him. The Gospel leads to Him. It exalts Christ, not some particular doctrine. To know Christ is the alpha and the omega of the Christian faith and practice. -- Frank Bartleman

Feast of Tabernacles -- Happy Birthday, Jesus! 9/25 Friday Faith

FEAST OF TABERNACLES -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS! The final and most joyous festival of the year begins at sundown [Friday, Sept. 25] 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. 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. 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 prove that Jesus was born during the Feast of Tabernacles and that He will return during the Feast of Tabernacles. "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)

Father, Forgive Me 9/24 Thursday Thoughts

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Father, Forgive Me 9/24 Thursday Thoughts I look up to the Father and say, "Father, forgive me for doing that thing." And the moment I do, He forgives me. It is wiped out as though it had never been. The instant that I confess it and tell the Father of it, Jesus says, "Lay that to My account." Notice that the Father has no memory of your past mistakes and failures. You must forget them too. --E. W. Kenyon

Our Righteous Advocate 9/23 Wednesday Wisdom

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Our Righteous Advocate 9/23 Wednesday Wisdom "My little children, these things I write unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." [I John 2:1] I think that that is one of the most marvelous statements in the whole of the Epistles. Seated at the Father's right hand is our righteous Advocate; and the minute that I break fellowship, He is there in fellowship with the Father. I lose my sense of righteousness. He is the Righteous One. He is there, in the Presence of the Father, to plead my case. --E. W. Kenyon

Righteousness 9/22 Tuesday Truth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Righteousness 9/22 Tuesday Truth 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

Be Eager to Pray 9/21 Monday Meditation

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Be Eager to Pray 9/21 Monday Meditation In the early Azusa [Revival] days, you could hardly keep the saints off their knees. Whenever two believers met, they invariably went to prayer. Today we can harldy be dragged to prayer. Some make as much fuss about it as the old camel does in the East in kneeling to receive his load. He fusses and bites and groans before the driver can bring him down. -- Frank Bartleman.

Hindrance to the Work of God 9/18 Friday Faith

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Hindrance to the Work of God 9/18 Friday Faith The natural strength and ability of man are always the greatest hindrance to the work of God, and to God's working. -- Frank Bartleman (historian of the Azusa Revival)

Joy in Our Spirit 9/17 Thursday Thoughts

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Joy in Our Spirit 9/17 Thursday Thoughts One day I saw that the secret of Christianity, the secret of evangelism, was that we were to have joy in our spirits. You remember Acts 13:52, "And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit." I Peter 1:8 tells us that it is joy unspeakable and full of glory. That didn't mean much to me until the Spirit unveiled it to me. Then I saw the secret of this new thing that was to come with the New Creation. "My joy I give unto you." This is something indescribable that fills our spirits. What does joy grow out of? What is the secret? I Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." Fellowship is the secret, it is the thing that gives joy. When the fellowship is broken, the joy dies. -- E. W. Kenyon

Be Ye Holy 9/16 Wednesday Wisdom

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Be Ye Holy 9/16 Wednesday Wisdom 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

Welcome to the Throne Room 9/15 Tuesday Truth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Welcome to the Throne Room 8/24 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

We Live by Faith 9/14 Monday Meditation

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: We Live by Faith 9/14 Monday Meditation The instant that you say that there are no Miracles in this dispensation, you deny that our walk is a walk by Faith, and you declare that our walk is a walk by Reason. I challenge you to find one place where God tells us as believers to walk by Reason. God is a Faith God. We are a Faith family. We are all born by Faith. We live by Faith. By Faith we live, breathe, and have our being in Christ. If there are no Miracles, then there is no reason for Faith. If there are no Miracles, God can't answer prayer, because He can't answer prayer of any character that is not a Miracle. -- E.W. Kenyon.

The Greatest Religious Need 9/11 Friday Faith

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Greatest Religious Need 9/11 Friday Faith The greatest religious need of our day would seem to be that of true followers of the meek and lowly Jesus. Religious enthusiasm easily goes to seed. The human spirit so predominates the show-off, religious spirit. But we must stick to our text -- Christ. He alone can save. The attention of the people must be first of all, and always, held to Him. A true Pentecost will produce a mighty conviction for sin, a turning to God. -- Frank Bartleman

Let Him Do With You What Seems Good 9/10 Thursday Thoughts

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Let Him Do With You What Seems Good 9/10 Thursday Thoughts 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

The Pray-ers 9/9 Wednesday Wisdom

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Pray-ers 9/9 Wednesday Wisdom One cannot spend an hour in conscious communion with the Father, the Son, the Spirit and the Word without carrying away from that trysting place the fragrance that fills the atmosphere. There is a heavenly fragrance about Jesus that lingers with the pray-ers. They are slow to speak. They are slow to judge. They are quick to love and quick to help. There is a holy calmness about their lives that challenges the restless ones; they crave that quietness of spirit. -- E.W. Kenyon.

Your Will 9/8 Tuesday Truth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Your Will 9/8 Tuesday Truth 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