Great Men of Faith!

I was searching for something and stumbled across the following quotes, what great men of faith these individuals were, but you know what? They weren't any different than you or I! We can walk in the same way these men walked, we can accomplish the same things... IF we allow the WORD to shape our mindset and IF we commit our lives to Him and seek His face. When we make the concious decision to LIVE, ACT, and WALK IN the WORD then, and only then, will we see great and mighty works by the Holy Ghost through us! 

Smith Wigglesworth Laying Hands on a Sick Child

John G. Lake: "Christianity did not come to the world to apologize for its existence or to beg a place to live. It came as heaven's champion: it has the champion soul. "It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." (Gen. 3:15). That champion consciousness is in the soul of the Christian. Being born of God, he is champion of the son of God and a demonstration His salvation. He is the champion of God. He cannot be anything else. 'As he is so are we in this world.' (1Jn. 4:17). . . . I fear sometimes that we moderns somehow have lost the spirit of original Christianity. We have lost the overcoming of it. We have lost the smash of it. We are begging the devil for a place in the world, apologizing for our faith in God, trying to conform our religion to the mind of the world."

A. W. Tozer: "Every man is as full of the Holy Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be."

China Missionary Arthur Matthews: "We are only as victorious as we want to be. Lack of inner victory cannot be blamed on anyone but ourselves. Each man has his own measuring cup and measures out the quantity of victory he desires. Beyond that, for some perverse reason, we will not stretch ourselves. Today, the message of victory is being misrepresented, cheapened, and diluted by Christians who are content with lowered standards and limited victory because in their hearts, they do not really want victory."

Smith Wigglesworth

Smith Wigglesworth: "Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. If I leave you as I found you, I am not God's channel. I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible."

Smith Wigglesworth: "Can demons remain in your presence? You have to be greater than demons. Can disease lodge in the body that you touch? You have to be greater than the disease." 1 Jn. 4:4

Smith Wigglesworth: "If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comesby action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith."

Smith Wigglesworth: Great faith is the product of great fights."

Smith Wigglesworth: "Repeat in your heart often 'baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire, fire, fire!' All the unction, and weeping, and travailing comes through the baptism of fire, and I say to you and say to myself, purged and cleansed and filled with renewed spiritual power." 'Who maketh his ministers a flame of fire.' ~ Heb. 1:7.

Smith Wigglesworth: "How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!"

Smith Wigglesworth: "I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary."

Smith Wigglesworth: "If you are in the same place today as you were yesterday, you are a backslider."

Smith Wigglesworth: "Power from on high . . . It is God inserting into you divine activity with mightiness."

Smith Wigglesworth: "Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing

binding him."

Smith Wigglesworth: "Faith is such a divine establishment of courage in you that courage sweeps you through every condition: You cannot come into the divine order, except on the line of being soaked in the word of God."

Smith Wigglesworth:"If you want to increase in the life of God, then you must settle it in

your heart that you will not at any time resist the Holy Spirit. The Holy Ghost and fire - the fire burning up everything that would impoverish and destroy you."

Smith Wigglesworth: "Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the

resources of God in the time of trial."

Smith Wigglesworth: "Shout, 'Get thee behind me, Satan,,,' and you will have the best time on earth. Whisper it, and you won't."

"We miss the grandeur because we lack audacity. If you will voice God at any time, you will find that He will be greater than any power that is round about you."

Smith Wigglesworth: "I don't ever ask Smith Wigglesworth how he feels!" I jump out of bed! I dance before the Lord for at least 10 to 12 minutes - high speed dancing. I jump up and down and run around my room telling God how great he is, how wonderful He is, how glad I am to be associated with Him and to be His child."

Smith Wigglesworth: "God's plan for you is to forget the past in every way, because the future is so amazingly wonderful. Oh, the word of God is so wonderful! The word so eats me up that I have no place but in God's word."

Smith Wigglesworth: "God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity."

Smith Wigglesworth: "If you leave people as you found them, God is not speaking by you.

If you are not making people mad or glad, there is something amiss with your ministry. If there is not a war on, it's a bad job for you."

WOW! I dont know about you, but these quotes were so good that I was ready to start preaching!

It is time for us to quit playing around and get busy!  The earth is in desperate need of something REAL let us rise up, take our stand, and BE THE CHURCH GOD CALLED US TO BE! When you are on fire, people will come to watch you burn! ;) 

Until Next Time, 

JRT