A Rest of Faith 9/10 Wednesday Wisdom

He will keep you in perfect peace as you stay your mind upon Him and trust in Him.  He will bring you to a rest of faith, to a place of blessed assurance that all that happens is working for your eternal good.

-- Smith Wigglesworth
 

Count on Him 9/9 Tuesday Truth

The resurrected Christ appeared to Peter and a few more of them early one morning on the shore of the lake.  He prepared a meal for the tired, tried disciples.  This is just like Him.  Count on His presence.  Count on His power.  Count on His provision.  He is always there just where you need him. 
-- Smith Wigglesworth

In a Needy Place 9/8 Monday Meditation

You say, "I am in a needy place."  It is in needy places that God delights to work.  For three days the people that were with Christ were without food, and He asked Philip, "From whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?"  That was a hard place for Philip, but not for Jesus, for He knew perfectly what He would do.  That hard place is where He delights to show forth His miraculous power.  And how fully was the need provided for.  Bread enough and to spare!
-- Smith Wigglesworth

The Prize Ahead 9/5 Friday Faith

If we went all the way with God, what would happen?  What should we see if we would only seek to bring honor to the name of our God? ... There is no standing still.  We must move on to a fuller power of the Spirit, never satisfied that we have apprehended all, but filled with the assurance that God will take us on to the goal we desire to reach, as we press on for the prize ahead.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

A Raising from the Dead 9/4 Thursday Thoughts

This is one of the most famous stories from Smith Wigglesworth's ministry.   According to various accounts, he raised between nine and fourteen people from the dead in the course of his ministry.

One morning about eleven o'clock I saw a woman who was suffering with a tumor.  She could not live through the day.  A little blind girl led me to the bedside.  Compassion broke me up and I wanted that woman to live for the child's sake. I said to the woman, "Do you want to live?"  She could not speak.  She just moved her finger.  I anointed her with oil and said, "In the name of Jesus."  There was a stillness of death that followed; and the pastor, looking at the woman, said to me, "She is gone."

When God pours in His compassion it has resurrection power in it.  I carried that woman across the room, put her against a wardrobe, and held her there.  I said, "In the name of Jesus, death, come out."  And soon her body began to tremble like a leaf.  "In Jesus' name, walk,"  I said.  She did and went back to bed.

I told this story in the assembly.  There was a doctor there and he said, "I'll prove that."  He went to the woman and she told him it was perfectly true.  She said, "I was in heaven, and I saw countless numbers all like Jesus.  The I heard a voice saying, "Walk, in the name of Jesus.'"

There is power in the name of Jesus.  Let us apprehend it, the power of His resurrection, the power of His compassion, the power of His love.  Love will break the hardest thing -- there is nothing it will not break.
 

Miracles in Ceylon 9/3 Wednesday Wisdom

Some years ago I was in Ceylon.  In one place the folk complained, "Four days is not much to give us." ... "We are not touching the people here at all." I said, "Can you have a meeting early in the morning, at eight o'clock?"  They said they would.  So I said, "Tell all the mothers who want their babies to be healed to come, and all the people over seventy to come, and after that we hope to give an address to the people to make them ready for the baptism in the Spirit."

It would have done you good to see the four hundred mothers coming at eight o'clock with their babies, and then to see the hundred and fifty old people, with their white hair, coming to be healed.  We need to have something more than smoke to touch the people; we need to be a burning fire for God.  His ministers must be flames of fire.

-- Smith Wigglesworth 

Burning and Shining Lights 9/2 Tuesday Truth

The need in the world today is that we should be burning and shining lights to reflect the glory of Christ.  We cannot do it with a cold indifferent experience, and we never shall.  His servants are to be flames of fire.  Christ came that we might have life, and life more abundantly.  And we are to give that life to others, to be ministers of the life and power and healing virtue of Jesus Christ wherever we go.
-- Smith Wigglesworth