God has been... 3/26 Wednesday Wisdom

The Spirit of the Lord is showing me God must get a people who can see that from before the foundation of the world He has had them in His mind.  God has been delivering us through all difficulty.  Where sin abounded He has brought in His grace, where disease came in to steal our life, God raised up a standard and we are here having come through tribulation.  God has been purifying us, strengthening us, equipping us with divine audacity by the power of almightiness -- till we can say, "What shall we say then to these things?"
-- Smith Wigglesworth
 

To Do and To Teach 3/25 Tuesday Truth

At Alexandria I got on the ship.  I wanted to preach, but I could not.  I had not the language, and no interpreter.  I read Acts 1:1, "...Jesus began both to do and to teach."  To do and then to teach.  I wanted to do, but how?  I was ready, but I had no opportunity.  Men cannot make the opportunity... It is God who makes the opportunity, and just where I stood a man fell on the deck.  His wife cried out, "My husband is dead."  One ran for the doctor, but before he arrived I began to do.  I said, "In the name of Jesus," and the man revived.  There was much excitement and pointing at me -- all wanted to know what had happened.  I could not speak to them, but I found five people who could interpret me.  And all on the ship heard the old story of Jesus and His love. Don't forget, we have to begin to do, then to teach. 
-- Smith Wigglesworth

Feel the Fire 3/24 Monday Meditation

Another time in Jerusalem at the place of wailing, the Spirit of the Lord moved me.  I saw young men, many of them in the prime of manhood, beating their breasts, weeping bitterly, saying, "Lord, how long, Lord, how long?"  I preached unto them Jesus.  On the next day ten came to see me, and with them a rabbi.  They said, "Where did the fire come from?  When you preached we felt the fire.  We have no fire in our synagogues." Oh, brother, the baptism of the Holy Ghost is a fire of baptism.  "...he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire."  Matthew 3:11
So I began to talk with them about God's promises of a Messiah, and how He was crucified at Calvary.  God wants us so filled with the Holy Ghost that people feel the power -- feel the fire.

-- Smith Wigglesworth 

Turned Into Another Man 3/17 Monday Meditation

I remember twenty-two years ago when I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost according to Acts 2:4.  I sent home a wire (the post office was opposite my house), that I had received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and was speaking in other tongues. The news ran like fire -- everybody seemed to know.  When I arrived home my wife said to me, "So you have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and are speaking in tongues?"  She said, "I want you to know I am baptized as much as you."  Right in my house the war began.  She said, "For twenty years I have been the preacher."  (I could not preach; I have tried many a time.)  Preachers are God-made men...   My wife said, "Next Sunday you go on the platform yourself -- and I'll see if there is anything in it."  I had been under great pressure what I was to speak about, and as I went on to the platform Jesus said the me, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon [thee]..."  (Luke 4:18).I don't know what I said -- but my wife -- she got up -- she sat down -- she got up -- she sat down -- she said, "That is not my husband." 
 
No man can be filled with the Holy Ghost and be the same man.  He is turned into another man.

--Smith Wigglesworth
THIS WILL BE MY LAST POST FOR A WEEK, AS I WILL BE ON VACATION.

When the Holy Ghost Comes In 3/14 Friday Faith

When the Holy Ghost comes in, Jesus is Lord -- then His Word floods our souls, and the tide flows out to the needy, the vision increases.  Hungrier than ever --- nothing satisfies me but God.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

When we receive ... 3/13 Thursday Thoughts

When we receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost, we receive a new ministry with divine power and glory.  The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.  The Holy Ghost reveals the Christ Who reigns in every believer when Jesus is coronated, and Jesus is coronated when you receive the Holy Ghost.  Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?
-- Smith Wigglesworth

With You and In You 3/12 Wednesday Wisdom

A brother came to see me to ask about the Holy Ghost.  He was so anxious that his ministry should be a success.  I pointed out to him the words of Jesus to His disciples, "The Holy Ghost is with you and shall be in you."  I said to him, "You see the sun this morning -- how it pours into the room from the outside?  But if the light was inside, how the light would shine forth outside illuminating the dark places."
-- Smith Wigglesworth