LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Faith for Better Things 8/25 Tuesday Truth

When we began to pray in the spring of 1905, no one seemed to have much faith for anything out of the ordinary. Pessimism in regard to the then-present conditions seemed to be felt generally among the saints. But this attitude had changed. God Himself had given us faith for better things. There had been nothing in sight to stimulate us to this. It came from nothing. And can He not do the same today?
-- Frank Bartleman (historian of the Azusa Street Revival)

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Easier to Criticize 8/24 Monday Meditation
I found most Christians did not want to take on a burden of prayer. It was too hard on the flesh. I was carrying this burden now in ever increasing volume, night and day. The ministry was intense... Most believers find it easier to criticize than to pray.
-- Frank Bartleman (historian of the Azusa Street Revival)

LEP'S FAITH QUOTE: Faith is an Act 8/21 Friday Faith
I was not able to send out a quote for Thursday.
Now God does not want anybody in the world, under any circumstances, to be in a place where they live on eyesight and on feelings. Faith never feels and faith never looks. Faith is an act, and faith without an act is not faith, but doubt and disgrace. Every one of you has more faith than you are using.
--Smith Wigglesworth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Name Above Every Name 8/19 Wednesday Wisdom
Jesus is given the highest position in the universe. He has the name which is above every name, with all the authority of God in it. That name has been given to the Church , to us common folks, to use. In that name we are masters of demons and their works.
-- E. W. Kenyon

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: God, Limited 8/7 Friday Faith

THIS WILL BE MY LAST POST UNTIL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19.
Have you been to Canada? Do you know when I went to Canada for the first time there was one thing that struck me peculiarly? The signs would read, "John Brown, Ltd." ...
I was holding meetings in the old St. Andrews Church in Sidney. I asked them one night why they did not put their national symbol on their churches. They wondered what I meant. I said, "Every other business house is 'Ltd.' Why don't you put it over the church?"
And old Scotchman said, "We don't have to . Everybody knows it."
Limited? Sure it is limited. Limit God, limit ourselves, limit His grace, limit the Word. Sure, our God is a little bit of a God. Most of us could carry Him in our vest pocket and it wouldn't budge the pocket -- our God with the "Ltd." on Him.
Brother, sister, that challenge comes to us today to LET GOD LOOSE.
-- John G. Lake

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: He Alone 8/6 Thursday Thoughts
It is only He, it is He who rolls away the cloud. He alone is the One who lifts the fallen, cheers the faint, brings fresh oil, and changes the countenance. It is the Lord thy God. He has seen thy misery, He has known thy heart brokenness, and He has known how near you seem to be to despair...
Oh, beloved, God is in the midst of us to help us into these wonderful divine places of appointment!
-- Smith Wigglesworth
I will not be posting from Tuesday, August 11, until Wednesday, August 19.

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: No Thought of Going Back 8/5 Wednesday Wisdom
We commenced meeting in Oakland, California, October 28, 1889. The wet weather had set in. We pitched our tents during a rain, such as was never known in Oakland before. People looked on in wonder and amazement. From a human standpoint, everything looked dark and discouraging. Surely God's ways are not our ways. It takes a great deal of confidence, faith, and courage in God to move forward at His command not knowing one step of the way. Here we were in a strange land, with our money about gone and no means to go back East. We confessed we were pilgrims in a strange country but knew we were seeking a city out of sight. We had no thought of going back until a great work had been done for the Master. We had no fear of suffering for lack of means; we knew our God would supply all our needs (Rom. 8:28).
-- Maria Woodworth-Etter

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: This World Is Not My Home 8/4 Tuesday Truth

People wonder at me traveling from one place to another, suffering all kinds of hardships, deprived of many comforts of life, exposed to wet and cold, heat and storms. I make this sacrifice for the Lord. Christ is all in all to me. This world is not my home. It has no attraction for me. I am laying up treasures in heaven. I have a mansion there that is built of pure gold, and it can never be destroyed or taken from me. Praise God for the privilege of leaving all to follow Jesus.
-- Maria Woodworth-Etter

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The More Praying There Is ... 8/3 Monday Meditation
“The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere…God shapes the world by prayer…The prayers of God’s saints are the capital stock in heaven by which Christ carries on His great work upon earth…Earth is changed, revolutionized; angels move on with more powerful, more rapid wing, and God’s policy is shaped as the prayers are more numerous, more efficient…When God’s house on earth is a house of prayer, then God’s house in heaven is busy and all-potent in its plans and movements; then His earthly armies are clothed with the triumphs and spoils of victory and His enemies defeated on every hand…God conditions the very life and prosperity of His cause on prayer.” -- E. M. Bounds

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LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Active Faith 7/31 Friday Faith
The Acts of the Apostles were written because the lives of the apostles bore the fruit of active faith. To them faith was an every-day-fact. If your life is in the divine order, you will not only have living, active faith but you will always be building up someone else in faith.
--Smith Wigglesworth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: God Has So Changed You 7/30 Thursday Thoughts
I would not have you miss the knowledge that you have heard from God, and to realize that God has so changed you that all weakness, fear, inability -- everything that has made you a failure, has passed away. Faith has power to make you what God wants you to be, only you must be ready to step into the plan and believe His Word.
--Smith Wigglesworth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Takes Away Fear 7/29 Wednesday Wisdom
Oh, praise the Lord for His tender care over us and for His wonderful salvation that fills our souls with glory; that takes away the fear of persecution, the fear of man, and the fear of devils; and makes us rejoice in the midst of trials, remembering that "all things work together for good to them that love God" (Rom. 8:28), etc.; that takes away the fear of death, and as we look at the grave we hear a shout from Calvary saying, "I am the resurrection and the life" (John 11:25). Death is the gate to glory.
-- Maria Woodworth-Etter

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: When the Veil is Lifted 7/28 Tuesday Truth
Many things may happen in our lives, but when the veil is lifted and we see the glory of God, His tender compassion over us all the time, to be where God is, how wonderful it is.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Another Favorite 7/27 Monday Meditation
The only way you can fail is if you stop praying. In a world full of uncertainties and unpredictability you have to trust God. The world has become more of a polyglot, more confused. Prayer is the only way out of your troubles.Get into a position [habit] of prayer.
-- John G. Lake

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Abundance of His Nature 7/24 Friday Faith.

"I am come that ye might have life and have it abundantly (or in abundance)" (John 10:10).
The Father wants you to have the abundance of His Nature. He wants your whole spirit and soul swallowed up in His Life (II Corinthians 5:4).
He wants you so dominated by His Nature that Satan can gain no advantage over you.
-- E. W. Kenyon

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: My All-Time Favorite Quote 7/23 Thursday Thoughts
Facebook Memories always reminds me that, on this date the year before, I reposted my all-time favorite quote. So here is its annual appearance:
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! For the same unction, the same zeal, the same Holy Ghost power is at our command as was at the command of Stephen and the apostles. We have the same God that Abraham had, that Elijah had, and we need not come behind in any gift or grace.
-- Smith Wigglesworth

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Are We Watching? 7/22 Wednesday Wisdom
Oh beloved, are we watching? Are we waiting? Will we be ready to escape all the awful things that are coming on the earth? To many who are looking, it will be a day of darkness, and there will be no light in it for them. He will come as suddenly as a flash of lightning, and we will be taken as quickly.
He will come with all the brightness of heaven. The saints will see all His glory and will hear all the bells of heaven ringing. Amid the singing of the great angelic choir, they will be caught away, swallowed up in all this brightness and glory. But the poor lost world will sleep on, not knowing what has happened.
-- Maria Woodworth-Etter

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Brotherhood of Man 7/21 Tuesday Truth
Fear God, for the hour of his judgment is at hand. Can you not see these things? People are preaching the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, but they are leaving out the blood of Christ entirely.
-- Maria Woodworth-Etter

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Show What God Can Do 7/20 Monday Meditation
God is calling us to give this old world the last call. He is taking men and women whom He can trust with His power to show forth His goods to the world. A traveling salesman shows his goods and secures orders. If he did not show his goods, he would not get the orders. People want to see the goods before they purchase them.
So God calls us to show the samples. We are not only to tell what God can do, but to put Him to the test and show what He can do.
--Maria Woodworth-Etter

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Strength and Ability of God 7/17 Friday Faith
II Corinthians 2:14, "Thanks be unto God who always leadeth me in triumph in Christ."
That should be the song on the lips of every believer. There isn't any reason for your being a weakling. The strength and ability of God are yours.
-- E.W. Kenyon.

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: A Branch of the Vine 7/16 Thursday Thoughts
You are a new Creation. If all you ever had was forgiveness of sins, Satan could claim you for his own. He could say, "You are mine." But now he has been defeated. He looks upon you as a New Creation, a branch of the Vine, Jesus, Who conquered him.
The only thing he can do now is to hinder that branch from bearing fruit.
-- E. W. Kenyon

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Feeding on the Word 7/15 Wednesday Wisdom

Just as we have exercised ourselves physically to build up muscle, as we have exercised mentally to build up memory and store our minds with facts and data, so we now should build up our Love life, build up our wisdom life, build up our creative energy.
How? By feeling on the Word of God. The Word is God's wisdom, God's ability, God's very Life. As I feed on it, it cultivates, strengthens, and builds up my spirit. It builds faith into me. It builds God's ability into me. It builds into me every attractive thing that you saw in Jesus's life.
-- E.W. Kenyon.

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: God Has a Gift for You 7/14 Tuesday Truth
God says He has a gift for you. Oh, "the gift of God is eternal life" (Rom. 6:23). When you receive this gift, then you are God's man. You are no longer a stranger or foreigner, but have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Through Him, you will have access to the Father by one Spirit. You are a citizen with the saints and of the household of God; you are a living stone (I Peter 2:5) in the building that is being fitly framed together, a holy temple in the Lord. (See Ephesians 2:12-22).
-- Maria Woodworth-Etter

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Doing the Word 7/13 Monday Meditation
Committing the Word to memory does not do it; learning the history of the books of the Bible does not do it; learning the Hebrew and the Greek words will not do it. Only one thing will do: my doing the Word, practicing it, living it in my daily life, trusting in it, acting on it.
-- E.W. Kenyon.