A.B. Simpson quotes 9/1 Thursday thoughts

Switching today to some quotes by Dr. A.B. Simpson, founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance.

No one is fitted for the humblest service in the church of God until he receives the divine baptism in the Holy Spirit.

We may expect as the end approaches that the Holy Ghost will work in the healing of sickness, in the casting out of demons, in remarkable answers to prayer, in special and wonderful providences and in such forms as may please His sovereign will -- to prove to an unbelieving world that the power of Jesus' Name is still unchanged.

A reminder that the annual Alliance "Rekindle the Flame" charismatic conference is in Akron (Copley) in April.
Another reminder:   This will be my last post until mid-week next week, as we will be on vacation.

Satan's Devices 8/31 Wed. wisdom

We have not passed this way hitherto.  I believe that Satan has many devices and that they are worse today than ever before; but I also believe that there is to be a full manifestation on the earth of the power and glory of God to defeat every device of Satan.

         -- Smith Wigglesworth

Manifest His Glory 8/30 Tuesday truth

I find that, in all my Lord did, He said that He did not do it, but that another in Him did the work.   What a holy submission!  He was just an instrument for the glory of God.  Have we reached a place where we dare to be trusted with the gift?  I see it 1 Corinthians 13 that if I have faith to remove mountains and have not charity, all is a failure.  When my love is so deepened in God that I only move for the glory of God, then the gifts can be made manifest.  God wants to be manifested, and to manifest His glory to humble spirits.

                             -- Smith Wigglesworth

Holiness and Worldliness 8/29 Monday meditation

I do not find anything in the Bible but holiness, and nothing in the world but worldliness.  Therefore, if I live in the world I shall become worldly; but, on the other hand, if I live in the Bible, I shall become holy. . . The power of God can remodel you.  He can make you hate sin and love righteousness.  He can take away bitterness and hatred and covetousness and malice, and can so consecrate you by His power, through His blood, that you are made pure -- every bit holy.  Pure in mind, heart and actions -- pure right through.

    -- Smith Wigglesworth

Not a Failure 8/26 Friday faith

(continued from Thursday)

Do you think that God would make you to be a failure?  God has never made man to be a failure. He made man to be a "son"; to walk about the earth in power; and so when I look at you I know that there is a capability that can be put into you which has the capacity of controlling and bringing everything into subjection.  Yes, there is a capacity of the power of Christ to dwell in you, to bring every evil thing under you till you can put your feet upon it, and be master over the flesh and the devil; till within you there is nothing rises except that which will magnify and glorify the Lord.

         -- Smith Wigglesworth

No Defeat 8/25 Thursday thoughts

God is able to so transform and change and bring you into order by the Spirit that you can become a new creation after God's order.  There is no such thing as defeat for the believer.  Without the cross, without Christ's righteousness, without the new birth, without the indwelling Christ, without this divine incoming of God, I see myself a failure.  But God, the Holy Ghost, can come in and take our place till we are renewed in righteousness -- made the children of god.  Nay, verily, the sons of God.  (to be continued)

       -- Smith Wigglesworth

Source of Strength 8/24 Wed. wisdom

It was quite natural for Jesus after He had served a whole day amongst the multitudes to want to go to His Father and pray all night.  Why?  He wanted a source of strength and power, and an association with His Father which would bring everything else to a place of submission; and when Jesus came from the mountain after communion with His Father . . . when He met the demon power it had to go out.  When He met sickness, it had to leave. . . It is an awful thing for me to see people, who profess to be Christian, lifeless and powerless, and in a place where their lives are so parallel with the world's that it is difficult to discriminate which place they are in, whether in the flesh or in the Spirit.  Many people are in the place which is described to us by Paul in Romans 7:25:  ... with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

                -- Smith Wigglesworth