Thursday, May 7, 2009

"GOD IS MORE EAGER TO ANSWER THAN WE ARE TO ASK."

I HAVE BEEN READING THIS BOOK ON SMITH WIGGLESWORTH. IT IS A 900 PAGE BOOK ON HIS LIFE TEACHINGS FROM THE EARLY 1900'S  TO MID 1900'S. HE WAS A RADICAL MAN OF JESUS. HE WITNESSED AND PERFORMED THINGS PEOPLE WISH THEY COULD SEE IN THEIR LIFE TIME. FUNNY THING IS...

GOD GAVE US THE AUTHORITY TO DO THE SAME THINGS HE DID. SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

MY MIND EXPLODED AFTER READING THE FIRST PAGE IN HIS BOOK. HERE IS ALIL TASTE OF WHAT BLEW MY MIND.

"WHEN DANIEL'S LIFE PLEASED GOD HE COULD ASK TO BE KEPT IN THE LIONS' DEN. BUT YOU CANNOT ASK WITH CONFIDENCE UNTIL THERE IS A PERFECT UNION BETWEEN YOU AND GOD, AS THERE WAS ALWAYS A PERFECT UNION BETWEEN GOD AND JESUS. THE FOUNDATION IS CONFIDENCE IN AND FIDELITY TO GOD. SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT JESUS WEPT BECAUSE OF THE LOVE THAT HE HAD FOR LAZARUS, BUT THAT COULD NOT BE. JESUS KNEW THAT THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE AROUND THE GRAVE, AND EVEN MARTHA, HAD NOT COME TO THE REALIZATION THAT WHATEVER HE WOULD ASK OF THE FATHER HE WOULD GIVE HIM. THEIR UNBELIEF BROUGHT BROKENNESS AND SADNESS TO THE HEART OF JESUS; AND HE WEPT BECAUSE OF THIS. THE MOMENT YOU PRAY YOU FIND THAT THE HEAVENS ARE OPENED. IF YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE HEAVENS TO BE OPENED SOMETHING IS WRONG."

-SMITH WIGGLESWORTH AUGUST 1914


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