Persecution is the greatest blessing to a church. When we have persecution we will have purity. If you desire to be filled with the Spirit you can count on one thing, and that is persecution.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
Daily (M-F) quotes from Pentecostal pioneers whom the modern Christian is unlikely to come across in contemporary devotional reading.
Persecution is the greatest blessing to a church. When we have persecution we will have purity. If you desire to be filled with the Spirit you can count on one thing, and that is persecution.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
How is it that the moment you are filled with the Holy Ghost that persecution starts? It was so with the Lord Jesus Himself... The devil and the priests of religion will always get stirred when a man is filled with the Spirit and does things in the power of the Spirit. (to be continued)
-- Smith Wigglesworth
None of you can be strong in God unless you are diligently and constantly hearkening to what God has to say to you though His Word. You cannot know the power and the nature of God unless you partake of His inbreathed Word. Read it at morn and at night, and at every opportunity you get.
--Smith Wigglesworth
The life that He freely bestows is a gift. Some think they have to earn it and they miss the whole thing. Oh, for a simple faith to receive all that God so lavishly offers. You can never be ordinary from the day you receive this life from above. You become extraordinary, filled with the extraordinary peace of our extraordinary God.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
As you receive God's Word into your being, your whole physical being will be quickened and you will be made strong. As you receive with meekness the Word, you will find faith upspringing within. And you will have life through the Word.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
The Psalmist said that he had hid God's Word in his heart, that he might not sin against Him, and you will find that the more of God's Word you hide in your heart, the easier it is to live a holy life.
-- Smith Wigglesworth
There are many good people, people who mean well, but they have no power to do anything for God. There is just some little thing that came in their hearts years ago, and their faith has been paralyzed ever since. Bring everything to the light. God will sweep it all away if you will let Him. Let the precious blood of Christ cleanse from all sin. If you will but believe, God will meet you and bring into your lives the sunshine of His love.
-- Smith Wigglesworth