So Much More 10/1 Wednesday Wisdom

Tomorrow I will be concluding my Wigglesworth quotes.  This is from the last paragraph of the last sermon in the complete book of Smith Wigglesworth's sermons.

There is more for us all yet, praise the Lord.  This is only the beginning.  So far we  have only touched the fringe of things.  there is so much more for us if we will but yield to God.

Do you want to receive the Spirit? 

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children:  how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?  --Luke 11:13 

MY 1000th FAITH QUOTES POST! 9/30 Tuesday Truth

Today marks the 1000th "Lep's Faith Quotes" post on www.lepsfaithquotes.com and "Lep's Faith Quotes" group on Facebook.  I began posting there on July 30, 2010.   The counters show that each quote is read an average of 38 times.  The quotes are read around the world, including by several pastors in the U.S., Africa, and India.  More pages were read in Russia last week than in the U.S. ! 

The quotes go into an additional 16 homes by email.  If you receive this by email, you've read OVER 2000 QUOTES if you've been in the email group since it started in 2006.  I hope that these quotes have blessed you and helped you to grow in your faith and the realization of your spiritual authority over the works of the enemy.

How we have sinned against God!  How we lack this spirit of compassion.  Do we weep as we look forth upon the unsaved?  If not we are not Pentecost-full.  Jesus was moved with compassion, are you?

-- Smith Wigglesworth  

A Baptism of Love 9/29 Monday Meditation

Is it possible after we have been baptized with the Holy Ghost to be satisfied with what we see?  What made Jesus weep over Jerusalem?  Because He had a heart of compassion -- sin-sick souls everywhere -- we want a baptism of love which goes to the bottom of the disease.  To cry unto God until He brings us up to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

-- Smith Wigglesworth 

Repentance 9/26 Friday Faith

Where is the fault for the state of things we see today?  The lack of a deep spirit of repentance.  Weeping is not repentance, sorrow is not repentance.  Repentance is a turning away and doing the work of righteousness and holiness.

--Smith Wigglesworth

ROSH HASHANAH: Happy New Year! 9/25 Thursday Thoughts

If you know me very well, you know that I like to educate Christians about their Jewish heritage, particularly the Old Testament festivals that Jesus Himself celebrated, which all were foreshadowings of His own birth, death, resurrection, and return.

Rosh Hashanah ("head of the year") or Yom Teruah ("Day of the Shout") or Feast of Trumpets begins at sundown Wednesday, September 24, and continues through Friday.

 

 Leviticus 23: ²³ Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a ^[d]rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 

 

The blowing of the shofar symbolized God's judgment, Israel's repentance, and divine restoration.  Jews in Jesus's time believed that the shofar would announce the resurrection of the dead.

Rosh Hashanah is traditionally the day that the world was created.  It begins a ten-day period of repentance, culminating on Yom Kippur. 

Why is the new year celebrated on the seventh month (Tishri) of the lunar calendar?  "B'resheet" ("in the beginning") is the first word in the Bible.  Spelled backwards, it reads "On the first of Tishri".   I'm sure you're all slapping your foreheads wondering why you didn't realize that!  LOL.  
 

For the fourth year, BP1 and I will be welcoming the new year at Sar Shalom Messianic Congregation in Mansfield.  Don U. and BP2 will be joining us this year for the first time.  We will have a celebration with liturgical dance, liturgical prayers, contemporary praise and worship with dancing the hora around the sanctuary, blowing about 30 shofars outdoors at sunset, and eating sweets for a sweet new year.    

from Sar Shalom's assistant rabbi Michelle Foss on Facebook:

Here's the Hebrew idiom of all Hebrew idioms...
 In Judaism, because no one knows the day or the hour of Rosh Hashanah- because it is the only feast that falls on the first day of the new moon/month on 1 Tishrei...
when the watchmen see the first white sliver of light on the blackened disc of the moon...it ushers in the feast of trumpets...
and because it looks like a winking eye, they call it the "twinkling of an eye!"
 In ancient Israel, the watchmen had posts from the desert to Jerusalem - when they saw that sliver of white light on the moon, they would light each of their torches from the various distances of their posts...
they would sound their shofars, so it sounded like thunder, and the torchlights resembled a flashing of lightning all the way from the west to the east!
 Now I don't know about you, but scripture does say we won't know the day or the hour, but we will be able to discern the signs and seasons - "the ot and the moedim..." it also says this...

 Mat 24:27 For as the lightning comes forth from the east and shines as far as the west, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man.  ...
 
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
 
1Th 4:16 Because the Master Himself shall come down from Heaven with a commanding shout of an archangel's voice, and with the trumpet of YAHWEH. And the dead in Messiah will rise again first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who remain alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet with our Master in the air. And so we will always be with our Master.

  for more information:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah

Singing in the Dark 9/24 Wednesday Wisdom

When the pressure is heavy that is the time to sing.  Pressure is permitted to strengthen the attitude and spirit of praise.  It takes a man to sing in the dark when the storm and battle are raging, and it is such singing that makes the man.

-- Smith Wigglesworth 

Praise is God's Sunlight 9/23 Tuesday Truth

Praise is God's sunlight in the heart.  It destroys sin germs.  It ripens the fruits of the Spirit.  It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.  There can be no holy life without it.  It keeps the heart pure and they eye clear.  Praise is essential to the knowledge of God and His will.  The strength of a life is the strength of its song.

-- Smith Wigglesworth