Lep's Blog Quotes

All Is Yours

2012-01-26T15:07:00.001-05:00

Now just take this thing home to your heart and read Eph. 1:3, "Who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ."

You are blessed with everything that you need.

His very fullness is yours.

His ability is yours.

His love is yours.

Yes, He himself is yours!

-- E. W. Kenyon

Hope and Faith

2012-01-20T16:44:00.000-05:00

Hope is always future. Faith is always now.

Someone comes to me and asks me to pray for them, and I say, "Was the prayer answered?" And they answer, "I hope it was."

Then I know it will not be answered, and I frankly tell them. "No, the Hoper's prayers are seldom answered." . . .

The Hoper is always a failure. It is the Believer that is a success -- and believing, you remember, is acting on the Word.

-- E.W. Kenyon

I Stand Complete

2012-01-11T16:31:00.002-05:00

The Word is mine. The Holy Spirit is mine. Jesus is mine. God is my own Father. Their Righteousness is my Righteousness. I stand complete in their completeness.

I am a New Creation, created in Christ Jesus. All the rights and privileges of a child are mine. I did not have to ask for them. They were conferred upon me. When I became His child, these things were a part of the New Creation so I enter into my rights.

One of the greatest blessings, one of the most wonderful facts is that Satan was defeated for me.

Jesus' victory over him is my victory.

-- E.W. Kenyon

The Mighty One is in me.

2011-12-26T19:54:00.002-05:00

I want you to say in the morning, "That mighty One is in me. He can put me over today. I can face any emergency. I can do all things in Him because He is my strength."

I can hear Him whisper, Isaiah 41:10: "Fear thou not for I am with thee. ("I am in thee.") Be not dismayed for I am thy (Father) God. I will strengthen thee; yea, I will uphold thee; yea, I am today all that you need: your helper, your wisdom, your strength, your ability."

You see, it is not what I should be. It is not what I can be.

It is what I am in Christ.

-- E. W. Kenyon

God's Word Can Never Die

2011-12-18T12:46:00.000-05:00

God's Word, like Himself, can never die, can never lose its freshness, its power, its ability to recreate, to strengthen and give courage.

You see, the Word in the lips of faith becomes just like the Word in Jesus' lips.

The Word in lips of doubt and fear is a dead thing; but in the lips of faith, it becomes life-giving, dominant.

Through it the sick are healed; Satan's captives are set free.

This living Word is the lips of faith is God's answer to the heart cry of man.

Man's word may fascinate and satisfy reason for a time, but the heart demands the Word of God.

-- E.W. Kenyon

"The Supernatural"

2011-12-12T17:17:00.002-05:00

"The Supernatural" is the title that E.W. Kenyon put on this passage.

Prayer is an excursion into the supernatural realm.

You are in the Throne Room in the Presence of God, of All Ability. He has promised to hear your petition and to give you your request. You have come on the ground of His Word.

He said: "Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my Name He will give you."

You understand that the words that Jesus spoke were His Father's words; so you come now with the Father's words in your lips, and you are making your appeal on the ground of His own Word.

-- E. W. Kenyon

Sons Visiting Their Father

2011-11-29T15:20:00.002-05:00

Few of us have realized the fact that the Father's heart is hungry for the companionship of His children. His heart hunger is the reason for man and the reason for redemption, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son."

That love impels Him to call us to Prayer.

That call is the proof of our ability to stand in His presence. It is the proof of His making us righteous enough to stand in His presence without reproof or condemnation.

It means that we are ever welcome to the Throne Room.

How few of us have ever realized this.

Is is sons visiting their Father.

It is children coming joyously into the presence of a Loving Parent.

-- E.W. Kenyon

A Call to Prayer

2011-11-16T15:42:00.002-05:00

If you don't take time to pray, you are losing out.

You can't say that you have no responsibility in the prayer life, for you have.

To see a need is to have a call to prayer.

There are people who will be utterly lost unless you take your place.

Unless you do you part, men will cry against you through eternity.

You can't plead that you have too much work to do. You can pray while you work.

You can't put up the plea that you do not know how; you can learn if you wish.

For you to disobey the prayer call is for you to disobey the call of your Father.

The prayer responsibility today is the most important thing of our lives.

-- E.W. Kenyon

An Overflowing Cup

2011-11-10T23:35:00.001-05:00

The man cried, "... Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean" (Matthew 8:2). Was Jesus willing? You will never find Jesus missing an opportunity of doing good. You will find that He is always more willing to work than we are to give Him an opportunity to work. The trouble is, we do not come to Him, we do not ask Him for what He is more than willing to give.

. . . If you are definite with Him, you will never go away disappointed. . . This Jesus is just the same today, and He says to you, "I will; be thou clean." He has an overflowing cup for thee, a fulness of life. He will meet you in your absolute helplessness. All things are possible if you will only believe.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Where Men Lack

2011-10-19T22:42:00.000-04:00

[The Gospels] will never fail to accomplish the work of God if people will but read and believe them.

That is where men lack. All lack of faith is due to not feeding on God's Word. You need it every day. How can you enter into a life of faith? Feed on the livng Christ of whom this Word is full. As you get taken up with the glorious fact and the wondrous presence of the living Chrsit, the faith of God will spring up within you. ". . . faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17).

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Men of Prayer

2011-10-17T19:58:00.001-04:00

"What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men — men of prayer."

-- E. M. Bounds

Feast of Tabernacles

2011-10-12T16:24:00.000-04:00

Happy Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). This meditation, which I pieced together from a couple sources, gives a Christian perspective and a good spiritual lesson.

Sukkot, or the Feast of the Tabernacles, begins at sunset on Wednesday, October 12 and runs until sundown on the 19th. This festival not only marks a time of thanksgiving for God’s provision, but it also commemorates the Jews’ deliverance from bondage in Egypt and their subsequent wandering in the desert for 40 years without a permanent place to call “home.” During Sukkot, Jews and Messianic Jews (who believe in Jesus) construct booths outside their synagogues and homes. These booths, consisting of improvised walls and open roofs covered with branches or leaves, resemble the temporary shelters that Jews erected while living in the desert.

The word Sukkot means "booths", a reference to the temporary dwellings that are built and inhabited during the festival.

At the end of the eight days, the Jews leave their temporary dwellings to return to their permanent homes. (This is one of the reasons some suspect that this feast, rather than the Feast of Trumpets, is suggestive of the Rapture of the Church.) This day, traditionally, is the day that Solomon dedicated the first Temple.

In the time of Jesus, Sukkot involved a daily processional to the Pool of Siloam to fetch water for the Temple. This ceremonial procession is the setting for the events of John 7, where Jesus offers his listeners "living water."

As Christians we may not celebrate many of the traditional Jewish holidays, yet they hold great spiritual and prophetic significance. Colossians 2:16-17 says, "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come." (emphasis added)

Most observers note that the three spring festivals - Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, and Feast of First Fruits - are prophetic of the Lord's First Coming. They each were also fulfilled on the day they were observed.

Between these three spring feasts and the final three fall feasts is the Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost, which is predictive of the Church.

It is believed that the last three feasts, in the fall, are prophetic of the Lord's Second Coming. It seems little coincidence that the seventh day of Sukkot is called Hoshanah Rabbah - "Great Salvation". Many believers are particularly watchful each fall in the hopes that "this" will be the year these final thfeasts are fulfilled when Jesus comes again.

The Sukkot festival is a great reminder to us to rejoice in the Lord’s constant protection of and provision for us. But it also reminds us that our homes are temporary dwellings and that life is fleeting. Our permanent home with the Lord awaits us.

We find this expressed beautifully in the New Testament book of Hebrews, describing our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: “All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth” (Hebrews 11:13).

Next time we are discouraged by our circumstances and our current struggles, it helps to remember it is only temporary.

The Joy of the Lord

2011-10-10T21:24:00.001-04:00

. . . the children of God are the only people who are really glad. We are glad inside and we are glad outside. Our gladness flows from the inside. God has filled us with joy unspeakable and full of glory. This is probably how Paul himself felt when he refers to being "beside ourselves" in the Lord. This joy in the Holy Ghost is beyond anything else. And this joy of the Lord is our strength.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Tested in the Fire

2011-09-29T14:14:00.000-04:00

Beloved, if you are tested in the fire, the Master is cleaning away all that cannot bring out the image, cleaning away all the dross from your life, and every evil power, till He sees His face right in the life, till He sees His face right in your life.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

My people pray

2011-09-17T13:09:00.000-04:00

"In our country," the American continued, "there are many opinions as to the secret of your great influence. Would you be good enough to give me your own point of view?"

After a moment's pause, Spurgeon said, "My people pray for me."

-- J.C. Carlile, in his biography, Charles Spurgeon

Spurgeon was considered the greatest preacher of modern times (mid- to late-19th Century).

Out of Cash

2011-09-09T10:14:00.002-04:00

One of our workers said to me at Christmas time, "Wigglesworth, I never was so near the end of my purse in my life." I replied, "Thank God, you are just at the opening of God's treasures." It is when we are at the end of our own that we can enter into the riches of God's resources. It is when we possess nothing that we can possess all things. The Lord will always meet you when you are on the line of living.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Occasionally . . . Sometimes

2011-08-25T23:40:00.000-04:00

The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is because Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with weekly meetings, and occasionally reading the Bible, and sometimes praying. Beloved, if God lays hold of you by the Spirit, you will find that there is an end of everything and a beginning of God, so that your whole body becomes seasoned with a divine likeness of God.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

An Open Door

2011-08-14T23:16:00.001-04:00

Before Satan can bring his evil spirits, there has to be an open door . . . How does Satan get an opening? When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites. Then it is that Satan comes. . . David said, "Before I was afflicted I went astray..." (Psalm 119:67). Seek the Lord and He will sanctify every thought, every act, till your whole being is ablaze with holy purity and your one desire will be for Him who has created you in holiness.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Open Wide

2011-06-30T17:49:00.000-04:00

Alas! we will not take the receptive attitude of faith. Jesus bids us “ask and receive” that our “joy may be full.” We obey His command in asking, but we do not throw open our souls that we may receive. God’s word to us is, “Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it” (Psa. 81:10), yet we do not pause in our cries of hunger to accept what is so freely offered.

--Carrie Judd Montgomery, 1881

Red-headed Boy

2011-06-25T00:19:00.002-04:00

In our Sunday school we had a boy with red hair. His head was as red as fire and so was his temper. He was such a trial. He kicked his teachers and the superintendent. He was imply uncontrollable. The teachers had a meeting in which they discussed the matter of expelling him. They thought that God might undertake for that boy and so they decided to give him another chance. One day he had to be turned out, and he broke all the windows of the mission. He was worse outside than in. Sometime later we had a ten-day revival meeting. There was nothing much doing in that meeting and people though it a waste of time, but there was one result -- the red-headed lad got saved. After he was saved, the difficulty was to get rid of him at our house. He would be there until midnight crying to God to make him pliable and use him for His glory. God delivered the lad from his temper and made him one of the meekest, most beautiful boys you ever saw. For twenty years he has been a mighty missionary in China. God takes us just as we are and transforms us by His power.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Get Filled with God

2011-06-14T16:35:00.002-04:00

Sometimes I say to people, "You weren't at meeting the other night." They reply, "Oh, yes, I was there in spirit." I say to them, "Well, come next time with your body also. We don't want a lot of spirits here and no bodies. We want you to come and get filled with God." When all the people will come and pray and praise as did these early disciples there will be something doing. People who come will catch fire and they will want to come again. But they will have no use for a place where everything has become formal, dry, and dead.

The power of Pentecost as it came at first came to loose men. God wants us free on every line. Men and women are tired of imitations; they want reality; they want to see people who have the living Christ within, and are filled with Holy Ghost power.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

The Name of Jesus

2011-06-02T17:29:00.001-04:00

The name of Jesus is so marvelous. Peter and John had no conception of all that was in that name; neither had the man, lame from his mother' womb who was laid daily at the gate; but they had faith to say, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk." And as Peter took him by the right hand, and lifted him up, immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength, and he went into the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. God wants you to see more of this sort of thing done. How can it be done? Through His name, through faith in His name, through faith which is by Him.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

Hiding God's Word

2011-05-28T23:10:00.000-04:00

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. He also testified that God's Word had quickened him, and, 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

When We Measure God ...

2011-05-18T17:08:00.000-04:00

Everywhere men are trying to discredit the Bible and take from it all the miraculous . . .

Another preacher said, "It was an easy thing for Jesus to feed the people with five loaves. The loaves were so big in those days that it was a simple matter to cut them into a thousand pieces each." But he forgot that one little boy brought those five loaves all the way in his lunch basket. There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitation of our unbelief.

We have a wonderful God, a God whose ways are past finding out, and whose grace and power are limitless.

-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1922

By the Blood

2011-05-14T23:59:00.000-04:00

"By the blood of Jesus my whole being is open to the fullness of God, and by that same precious blood I am closed to any power of the enemy.”

--Carrie Judd Montgomery, 1908

By and through prayer . . .

2011-05-03T15:12:00.000-04:00

In October 1932 Roberts (Evan Roberts, the "father" of the great Welsh Revival of 1904) wrote, "My work is confined to prayer, and it is to such that I have devoted myself for the last twenty-five years. . . . I work as hard at prayer as if I had undertaken any other form of religious work. . . . By preaching I would reach the limited few -- by and through prayer I can reach the whole of mankind for God."

-- Wesley Duewel, Revival Fire

Revival Praying

2011-04-28T15:19:00.002-04:00

Every time in the history of the church revival has come, it has followed extensive prayer and seeking of God's face by some of His children. When we study the history of God's work on earth, we will always find faithful praying saints, often hidden, holding on before Him in prayer, pleading for God to revive His people. . . .

God requires more than casual prayers for revival. He wants His people to hunger and thirst for His mighty working. To seek God's face is far more than occasionally mentioning revival in our prayer. It involves repeated and prolonged prayer. . . A revival seeker is eager to obey God in everything.

-- Wesley Duewel, Revival Fire (c) 1995, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI 48530

"Glory to You"

2011-04-22T17:31:00.002-04:00

"GLORY TO YOU" Written 1,700 Years Ago

from Jesus Daily on Facebook

What shall I give you, Lord, in return for all Your kindness?

Glory to You for Your love.

Glory to You for Your mercy.

Glory to You for Your patience.

Glory to You for forgiving us all our sins.

Glory to You for coming to save our souls.

Glory to You for Your incarnation in the virgin's womb.

Glory to You for Your bonds.

Glory to You for receiving the cut of the lash.

Glory to You for accepting mockery.

Glory to You for Your crucifixion.

Glory to You for Your burial.

Glory to You for Your resurrection.

Glory to You who were preached to men and women.

Glory to You in whom they believed.

Glory to You who were taken up into heaven.

Glory to You who sit in great glory at the Father's right hand.

Glory to You whose will it is that the sinner should be saved through Your great mercy and compassion.

Ephraem of Syria (ca. 306-373 AD)

"When the Hour Was Come"

2011-04-20T22:33:00.002-04:00

MAUNDAY THURSDAY MEDITATION: "And when the hour was come, He sat down and the twelve apostles with Him." "When the hour was come" -- that was the most wonderful hour. There never was an hour, never will be an hour like that hour. What hour was it ? It was an hour of the passing of creation under the blood. It was an hour of destruction of demon power. It was an hour appointed of life coming out of death. It was an hour when all that ever lived came under a glorious covering of the blood. It was an hour when all the world was coming into emancipation by the blood. It was an hour in the world's history when it emerged from dark chaos, a wonderful hour! Praise God for that hour! Was it a dark hour? It was a dark hour for Him, but a wonderful light dawned for us. It was tremendously dark for the Son of Man, but praise God He came through it.

-- Smith Wigglesworth

We Have a Big God

2011-04-17T13:35:00.000-04:00

We have a big God. We have a wonderful Jesus. We have a glorious Comforter. God's canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil. Under His wings shalt thou trust. The Word of God is living and powerful and in its treasures you will find eternal life. If you dare trust this wonderful Lord, the Lord of life, you will find in Him everything you need.

--Smith Wigglesworth, 1922

These Things Are Possible for Me

2011-04-11T14:10:00.001-04:00

I am glad that Paul was a man. I am glad that Jesus was a Man. I am glad that Daniel was a man, and I am also glad that John was a man. You ask, "Why?" Because I see that whatever God has done for other men, He can do for me. And I fnd God has done such wonderful things for other men that I am always on the expectation that these things are possible for me. -- Smith Wigglesworth

We Never Saw It Like That

2011-04-01T09:36:00.002-04:00

And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion. --Mark 2:12 If anything stirs me in my life it is such words as these, "We never saw it on this fashion." Something ought to happen all the time so that people will say, "We never saw it like that." If there is anything that God is dissatisfied with, it is stationary conditions. So may people stop on the threshold, when God, in His great plan, is inviting them into His treasury. Oh, this treasury of the Most High, the unsearchable riches of Christ, this divine position which God wants to move us into so that we are altogether a new creation. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Housecleaning for Jesus

2011-03-27T16:07:00.002-04:00

You say, "There are many things in my house that would have to be thrown out the window if Jesus came to my home." Would to God we could understand it for He is in the house all the time. All the things ought to go out the window that couldn't stand His eyes on them. Every impression of our hearts that brought trouble when He looked at us ought to go forever. --Smith Wigglesworth

Our Confidence

2011-03-17T19:08:00.001-04:00

We have no confidence in the flesh. Our confidence can only be stayed and relied in the One who never fails, in the One who knows the end from the beginning, in the One who is able to come in at the midnight hour as easy as in the noonday, and make the night and the day alike to the man who rests completely in the will of God, knowing that "all things work together for good to them that love Him," and trust in Him. And such trust have we in Him.

--Smith Wigglesworth, 1922

A Big Jesus

2011-03-10T14:08:00.002-05:00

He is a big Jesus! If I could measure Him I would be very small. But I cannot measure Him, and I know He is very large. I am glad I cannot measure Jesus but I am glad I can touch Him all the same.

-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1922

Nothing Else is Worthwhile

2011-03-02T23:55:00.002-05:00

God is a real essence of joy to us in a time when it seems barrenness, when it seems nothing can help us but the light from heaven, far above the brightness of the sun. Then that touches you, then that changes you, and you realize nothing is worthwhile but that.

-- Smith Wigglesworth, 1922

Only God

2010-02-14T15:15:00.000-05:00

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer move God.
-- E.M. Bounds

The One Condition of Successful Praying

2010-02-08T16:56:00.000-05:00

We constantly need to be reminded that faith is the one inseparable condition of successful praying. There are other considerations entering into the exercise, but faith is the final, indispensable condition of true praying.
-- E.M. Bounds

Drive Yourself to Prayer

2010-01-30T20:06:00.000-05:00

Force yourself into the prayer life. Regardless of how you feel, drive yourself to prayer.
You will be amazed how halting and stumbling will be your first attempts.
You have been rated, perhaps, as an unusual Christian worker in the Church.
Men look upon you as an outstanding Christian, but if they knew that in behind your public profession there was an empty closet, or an unused prayer room, they would be amazed.
If you live with the Lord in secret, you will be able to pray with great freedom in public.
-- E.W. Kenyon, In His Presence

Passionate Love for God???

2010-01-21T20:40:00.001-05:00

To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid "big" sins -- is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
-- Francois Fenelon

If you read history . . .

2010-01-14T10:55:00.000-05:00

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
-- C.S. Lewis

Hours and Hours of Praying

2010-01-08T21:15:00.000-05:00

Hours and hours of praying do not eliminate the need for faith. They may help you to arrive at the position of faith, but without the dynamic of faith, prayer does not prevail.
-- Wesley L. Duewel

Requests for Refusal

2010-01-01T14:26:00.001-05:00

Many prayers fail to achieve their purpose because there is no faith behind them. Prayers that are filled with doubt are requests for refusal.
-- Charles Spurgeon

Not a Mere Conviction

2009-12-23T08:48:00.000-05:00

Faith is very far from being a mere conviction of the truth of God's Word or a conclusion drawn from certain premises. It is the ear, which has heard God say what He will do and the eye, which has seen Him doing it. Therefore, where there is true faith, it is impossible for the answer not to come.
-- Andrew Murray

Wrestling in Prayer

2009-12-15T23:46:00.000-05:00

Wrestling in prayer enlists all the powers of your soul. You reach beyond the visible to the very throne of God. With all your strength and tenacity, you lay hold of God's grace and power.
-- Wesley L. Duewel

The Great People of Earth

2009-11-30T17:39:00.000-05:00

The great people of earth are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time to pray.
-- S.D. Gordon

Our Highest Glory

2009-11-16T16:58:00.000-05:00

We have far too little conception of the place that intercession, as distinguished from prayer for ourselves, ought to have in the Church and the Christian life. In intercession our King upon the throne finds His highest glory. In it we shall find our highest glory too. Through it He continues His saving work and can do nothing without it. Through it alone we can do our work, and nothing avails without it.
-- Andrew Murray

Before a Great Throne

2009-11-07T16:16:00.000-05:00

Do not bring before God small petitions and narrow desires and say, "Lord, do according to these." Ask for great things, for you are before a great throne.

-- Charles Spurgeon

The Voice of Praise

2009-10-29T16:22:00.001-04:00

Solomon prevailed much with God in prayer at the dedication of the temple, but it was the voice of praise which brought down the glory that filled the house.

-- Dwight L. Moody

The Highway to Backsliding

2009-10-24T17:37:00.000-04:00

To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding.
-- E.M. Bounds

To Pray in Faith

2009-10-15T09:48:00.000-04:00

If you would pray in faith, be sure to walk every day with God. If you do, He will tell you what to pray for. Be filled with His spirit and He will give you objects enough to pray for. He will give you as much of the spirit of prayer as you have strength of body to bear.
--Charles G. Finney

A Continual Conversation

2009-10-11T14:53:00.001-04:00

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

I do know this—God looks after me. My tranquility is so great that I fear nothing. What could I fear when I am with him? I cling to God with all my strength.

A brief lifting up of the heart is enough. Do this even when you're on the run because brief reflections on God, inner acts of adoration—short though these prayers may be—please God.
-- Brother Lawrence

Has God Changed?

2009-10-01T14:36:00.001-04:00

When people hear about what God used to do, one of the things they say is: "Oh, that was a very long while ago."

Has God changed? Is He not an immutable God -- the same yesterday, today and forever? Does not that furnish an argument to prove that what God has done at one time He can do at another?

I think I may push it a little furether and say: What He has done once is a prophecy of what He intends to do again. Whatever God has done is to be looked upon as a precedent.

[Let us] with earnestness seek that God would restore to us the faith of the men of old, that we may richly enjoy His grace as in the days of old.
-- Charles Spurgeon, 1859

The Simple Principle of Faith

2009-09-19T11:08:00.001-04:00

Christ is the root and source of our faith. When He is in what we believe for, it will come to pass. No wavering. This is the principle: He who believes is definite. A definite faith brings a definite experience and a definite utterance. As our prayers rest upon the simple principle of faith, nothing shall be impossible to us.
--Smith Wigglesworth

Nothing Out of the Ordinary

2009-09-13T19:31:00.000-04:00

I have read the 1000-page complete works of John G. Lake, the greatest healing evangelist of all time. One of my all-time favorite quotations is from his diary entry on Dec. 7, 1910:

"At the tabernacle service Thursday night, it was a very sweet service with nothing out of the ordinary. Mrs. Arlow of Whurter, instantly healed of violent internal inflammation."

An instantaneous healing was considered "nothing out of the ordinary." God, give us such faith and such a manifestation of the Holy Spirit in our midst that we will be able to call a miraculous healing "noting out of the ordinary."

Living in the Upper Realm

2009-09-03T18:11:00.000-04:00

If you are a child, then you are an heir of God -- a joint heir with Christ -- you have a Right to the use of the Name of Jesus, and if you have this Right, it is because of your place in the family.
I believe the hour will come when large companies of believers will live this simple life of Faith; live it unconsciously, live it daily -- they will live in this upper realm where they will see in the Name of Jesus the fullness of the authority and power that was in Christ when He walked on the earth.
-- E. W. Kenyon, The Wonderful Name of Jesus

Expect Sickness???

2009-08-30T16:13:00.001-04:00

I'm not interested in writing blogs. I'd rather share power-packed quotes from authors who say things better than I can. But when I read the headlines in Saturday's Norwalk Reflector, I knew that I had to write about this. Did anyone else notice this headline and react to it? "EXPECT SICKNESS" It was referring to warnings from government agencies about the upcoming flu season.

The devil wants us to expect sickness. He wants us to think that he is all-powerful and that there is nothing that we can do to avoid the nasty things that he has created to mess with God's perfect creation. The devil knows that if we let down our guard by believing these lies and giving in to fear spread by ungodly people, that he will be able to attack us easily.

I received an email two winters ago from a relative. He said that by February he will have a bad cold, and by March he will have the flu. "It happens every year." Then he predicted how many times his wife will have been sick by the end of March. That's just the place where the devil wants us to be . . . the place where we literally invite him to come in and destroy our health, our lives, and our peace of mind. We actually believe that his power to create sickness is something that we cannot avoid. We won't admit it, but we sometimes believe in a "great big devil" and a "little tiny God".

If you've been reading my quotations for very long, you should know that God has given us the authority to be as Christ on the earth, to heal the sick (Mark 16:17) and to take authority to "speak to the mountain" and command sickness away from ourselves and our loved ones.

I advocate getting flu shots because few of us have perfect faith. But I am convinced that most of us could have better health if we would verbally bind Satan from attacking us and refusing disease at the first symptom . . . or even before the first symptom appears.

As we go into fall and winter, into the so-called "flu season", and as our kids are back in school and in contact with communicable diseases, refuse to believe that you/they will contract everything that comes along. "EXPECT HEALTH".

Gifts

2009-08-15T09:43:00.000-04:00

Beloved, we have seen that the Holy Ghost came into the Church at Pentecost and that those gifts are there also, but through lack of faith we do not see them exercised.
-- John G. Lake, 1910

Christ in You

2009-08-07T16:49:00.000-04:00

Suppose I could get inside of Mrs. Lake. Can you imagine such a thing? She would be 190 pounds heavier than she is now. She would have a voice like a pirate, and all the other characteristics of me. She would be me. Do you see it?

Oh, listen. There is a divine secret in Christ's salvation. It is Christ in fact in you by the Holy Ghost, dwelling in you, speaking in you, living in you, blazing in you, flashing from you.
-- John G. Lake

"The far greater power of praise"

2009-08-02T14:43:00.000-04:00

from Come Away My Beloved, by Frances J. Roberts, a book of devotionals written as messages from Lord:

Man has contemplated the power of faith and of prayer, but only rarely have I revealed to men this far greater power of praise. For by prayer and faith doors are opened, but by praise and worship, great dynamos of power are set in motion, as when a switch is thrown and an electric power plant such as Niagara is thrown into operation. Praying for specifics is like requesting light for individual houses in various scattered places, while worshipping and praise flood the whole area with available current.

I do not discount prayer (petitions). I only show you a more marvelous way -- a faster means of bringing more help to more people with less elapse of time. So many need Me. So little time is available. Turn loose thy praises, and in proportion to thy liberality, ye shall see My generosity expressed, and in infinite magnitude.

Come Up Into God

2009-07-25T09:28:00.001-04:00

Friends, we need a coming up into God. This church, and the church around, needs to come up into God. We have been traveling around in a circle, digging our noses in the ground, and we have had our eyes on the ground, instead of in the clouds, instead of up at the throne. Look up to the glorified One! I want to see His bleeding hands. Look to heaven where He is to see them. Do not go back to Calvary to see Him. He is the risen, regnant, glorified Son of God; risen with all power and all authority, with the keys of hell and of death! He is the divine authority, the eternal overcoming, the divine manifestation of God. And you and the regnant, glorified Christ as one, are the divine manifestation of God. Come up to the throne, dear ones. Let the throne life, and the throne love and the throne power and the throne spirit and the Holy Ghost in heaven possess you, and you will be a new man in Christ Jesus! And your tread will be the church of the conquereor and your song the song of victory and your crown the crown of glory and your power the power of God.
-- John G. Lake

The Spirit of Power

2009-07-14T16:53:00.000-04:00

The Spirit of God, the divine master, the eternal power of God, the combined life and presence by the Spirit, of the Father and the Son, is given to you -- not to leave you a weakling and subject to all kinds of powers of darkness, but to make you a master, to give you dominion in God over every devilish force that ever was.

God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7)

The Spirit of Power is the Holy Ghost, . . . and not only of power, but of love and of a sound mind -- not craziness and insanity, but a sound mind by which you can look in the face of the devil and laugh.

-- John G. Lake, 1924

Baptized in the Holy Ghost?

2009-07-04T13:23:00.000-04:00

If you were looking to know whether a man was baptized in the Holy Ghost or not, what would you look for? You would look for God in him. You would look for a revelation of the personality of God. God moving in him, God speaking in him, God speaking through him, God using his hands, God using his feet -- a mind in harmony with God, a soul in touch with heaven, a spirit united and unified with and in Jesus Christ.
-- John G. Lake, 1921

Indwelt by God

2009-06-25T23:11:00.000-04:00

A new Christian is not a reformed man. A Christian is a man renewed, remade by the Spirit of God. A Christian is a man indwelt by God -- the house of God, the tabernacle of the Most High! Man, indwelt by God, becomes the hands and the heart and the feet and the mind of Jesus Christ. God descends into man; man ascends into God! That is the purpose and power of the baptism in the Holy Ghost. A soul is saved. How does Jesus reach them? Through your hands, through your heart, through your faith. When God baptized you in the Holy Ghost, He gave you the biggest gift that heaven or earth ever possessed. He gave you Himself! He joins you by the one Spirit to Himself forever.
-- John G. Lake, 1921

Ask Great Things

2009-06-20T08:20:00.001-04:00

We need confidence to ask great things of God, and we shall get great things. Ask little things, and we shall get little things. But ask mighty showers of grace, and they will be poured out like a flood upon us.

-- Talbot W. Chambers, The New York City Noon Prayer Meeting, quoting an impromptu testimony, 1858

You Are Necessary to God

2009-06-11T16:49:00.001-04:00

The purpose of the Lord and Savior was not only to redeem us out of filth and sin, but that we should grow up into manhood and womanhood in God and take a place in the world and accomplish the thing that God intended us to accomplish and fellowship with Him on His plane of understanding.

You are just as necessary to God in His plan for the salvation of mankind as God is necessary to you. That is a tremendous statement. I want to repeat it. Christians are just as necessary to Almighty God in order to accomplish His purpose in the world as God is necessary to the Christian. Without God we would not be saved. Without God we could not live. Without God we would never reach a maturity in God. Without man, God would have no medium through which He could express Himself to the world, by which he could minister the Spirit of the living God to the world.

-- John G. Lake, 1920

Stand Firm

2009-06-05T07:55:00.001-04:00

George Muller operated a chain of orphanages ministering to several thousand children in England in the early 1800's. He operated them entirely by faith, never asking anyone for donations or letting anyone know the needs. He depended completely on God to lay the need for funds on the right people's hearts at exactly the right time.

"I thank God for the faith He has given me, and I ask Him to uphold and increase it. Do not let Satan deceive you into thinking that you could not have the same faith. When I lose something like a key, I ask the Lord to direct me to it; and I look for an answer to my prayer. (several other examples) . . .

You may do the same, dear believing reader! Do not think that I am extraordinary or that I have privileges above God's other dear children. I encourage you to try it! Stand firm in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him."

-- The Autobiography of George Muller

Authority and Power are Yours

2009-06-02T07:41:00.001-04:00

And the Church will never be a real Church, in the real power of the living God again, until she comes back again to the original standard, where Jesus was.

Jesus said, "Behold, I give you authority." What authority? "Against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease" (Matthew 10:1). Jesus has vested that authority in you. You say, "Well, Lord, we understand the authority that is in your Word, but we haven't the power." But Jesus said, "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you" (Acts 1:8).
-- John G. Lake

Strengthen Your Faith

2009-05-22T08:12:00.000-04:00

The last important point for the strengthening of our faith is that we let God work for us and do not work a deliverance of our own. When a trial of faith comes, we are naturally inclined to distrust God and to trust in ourselves, in our friends, or in circumstances. We would rather work a deliverance of our own than simply look to God and wait for His help. But if we do not patiently wait for God's help or if we work a deliverance of our own, then at the next trial of our faith we will have the same problem. We will again be inclined to try and deliver ourselves. With every fresh trial, our faith will DECREASE. On the contrary, if we stand firm in order to see the salvation of God, trusting in Him alone, our faith will be INCREASED. Every time we see tht hand of God stretched out on our behalf in the hour of trial, our faith would be increased even more. God will prove His willingness to help and deliver at the perfect time. -- George Muller, 1843

The Eternal Healer

2009-05-15T16:29:00.000-04:00

To my heart Jesus Christ is the Eternal Healer. He was the Healer in the beginning. He was the Healer before there was any flood. He was the Healer after the flood. He was the Healer during His earth life. He is the Healer in this dispensation. He is the Healer forever! Bless God. So long as need of healing exists, Jesus is the Healer. Blessed be His name.

So I have become an enthusiast for the Son of God. His salvation to me is the mightiest conception that ever dawned in the nature of man or God. And I long and pray and rejoice in the expectation of a day to come when the universal race of man and the angels in heaven and creatures of earth will join in one glad song of holy power and glory to the Son of God, saying as the Scriptures indicate, "Honor and might and glory and blessing be unto Him who liveth forever and ever. Amen" (Rev. 5:12-14 -- John G. Lake, 1917

Just focus on praise!

2009-05-07T21:33:00.000-04:00

There are times when it seems to me it is not fitting even to pray. There is a life of praise. Once while in conversation with Dr. Myland, the pastor of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church at Columbus, Ohio, I happened to mention the fact that I had not prayed concerning a certain personal matter. Turning to me he said, "I have not prayed for myself for four years."

That sounded very strange to me at that time. I did not understand. He said, "No, I passed beyond the place of praying, brother, into the place where I was ready to accept what the Lord Jesus Christ has wrought and to receive the power of His Spirit in my life so that the thing that he has wrought for me should become evident through me." And that man had walked for four years in that conscious victory. -- John G. Lake, 1916

As a spiritual exercise for a few days, try praising God that He is already giving the answers to the things you are concerned, about instead of continually asking. You will begin to explode in a sense of victory. -- Lep

For effective prayer ... PRAISE!

2009-04-30T23:10:00.001-04:00

"The secret of success in overcoming Satan . . . is a massive program of effective prayer. The secret of effective prayer is a massive program of praise." -- Paul E. Billheimer

"I have access..."

2009-04-17T09:27:00.000-04:00

"In my name ye shall cast out demons."
"Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world."
These are facts. We know them. We are not afraid to face life with the consciousness of victors.
In the morning you take stock. You say, "He and I are going together. I have access to His ability, His wisdom, His love, His grace, His strength to meet every issue that confronts me. I shall have physical strength for every need today. I shall have wisdom to meet every issue. I shall have love no matter what the provocation may be."
You see, when you walk like this, your prayer life becomes a realistic thing...

Why, prayer just becomes a means of communication between He and I. It is not a slavish duty. It is not a difficult task. It is not hard work.
He and I are working together.
-- E.W. Kenyon

If God Lays Hold of You...

2009-02-26T01:17:00.001-05:00

The reason the world today is not seeing Jesus is because believers are not filled with the Spirit of Christ. They are satisfied with going to church, occasionally reading the Bible, and sometimes praying. Beloved, if God lays hold of you by the Spirit, you will find that there is an end to everything of the old life. -- Smith Wigglesworth

Don't Settle for the Ordinary

2009-02-26T01:07:00.000-05:00

God has privileged us in Christ Jesus to live above the ordinary human plane of life. Those who want to be ordinary and live on a lower plane can do so; but as for me, I will not." --Smith Wigglesworth

The Power of God

2009-02-26T01:05:00.000-05:00

The Church in general is very clear in her faith on the subject of salvation through the sacrifice of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Christian world in general, regardless of their personal state of salvation, have a general faith and belief of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the salvation of the world. But they are ever in doubt and very inexperienced in the power of God. -- John G. Lake

My Grace is Sufficient

2009-02-26T00:57:00.000-05:00

Suddenly as a lightning flash, that text came to me: "My grace is sufficient for thee." (2 Cor. 12:9)
. . .
and I said, "I should think it is, Lord, " and burst out laughing. . . . It was as if some little fish, being very thirsty, was troubled about drinking the river dry, and Father Thames [the river]said, "drink away, little fish, my stream is sufficient for thee."

Or it seemed like a little mouse in the granaries of Egypt, after the seven years of plenty, fearing it might die of famine. Joseph might say, "Cheer up, little mouse, my granaries are sufficient for thee." Again I imagined a man away up yonder, in a lofty mountain, saying to himself, "I breathe so many cubic feet of air every year, I fear I shall exhaust the oxygen in the atmosphere." But the earth might say, "Breathe away, O man, and fill the lungs ever, my atmosphere is sufficient for thee." Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring heaven to your souls.

-- John G. Lake, quoting Charles Spurgeon