Category: Daily Devotionals – Smith Wigglesworth

October 16

[He] makes His angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire. — Hebrews 1:7

Scripture reading: Hebrews 1

God‘s ministers are to be flames of fire! It seems to me that no man with a vision, especially a vision by the Spirit‘s power, can read that wonderful verse without being kindled to such a flame of fire for his Lord that it seems as if it would burn up everything that would interfere with his progress.

A flame of fire! It is a perpetual fire; a constant fire; a continual burning; a holy, inward flame; which is exactly what God‘s Son was in the world. God has nothing less for us than to be flames! It seems to me that if Pentecost is to rise and be effective, we must have a living faith so that Christ‘s great might and power can flow through us until our lives become energized, moved, and aflame for God.

The important point here is that the Holy Spirit has come to make Jesus King. It seems to me that the seed, the life that was given to us when we believed—which is an eternal seed—has such resurrection power that I see a new creation rising from it with kingly qualities. Not only is the King to be within us, but also all the glories of His kingly manifestations are to be brought forth in us. Oh, for Him to work in us in this way, melting us, until a new order rises within us so that we are moved with His compassion! I see that we can come into the order of God where the vision becomes so much brighter and where the Lord is manifesting His glory with all His virtues and gifts; all His glory seems to fill the soul who is absolutely dead to himself and alive to God. There is much talk about death, but there is a death that is so deep in God that, out of that death, God brings the splendor of His life and all His glory.

An opportunity to be a flame of fire for God came when I was traveling from Egypt to Italy. What I now tell you truly happened. On the ship and everywhere, God had been with me. A man on the ship suddenly collapsed; his wife was in a terrible state, and everybody else seemed to be, too. Some said that he would die, but oh, to be a flame, to have the living Christ dwelling within you!

We are backslidden if we have to pray for power, if we have to wait until we feel a sense of His presence. The baptism of the Holy Spirit has come upon you: “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts 1:8). Within you is a greater power than there is in the world (1 John 4:4). Oh, to be awakened out of our unbelief into a place of daring for God on the authority of the blessed Book!

So in the name of Jesus, I rebuked the devil, and to the astonishment of the man‘s wife and the man himself, he was able to stand. He said, “What is this? It is going all over me. I have never felt anything like this before.” From the top of his head to the soles of his feet, the power of God shook him. God has given us authority over the power of the Devil. Oh, that we may live in the place where the glory excels! It would make anyone a flame of fire.

Thought for today: When we are baptized in the Holy Spirit, it is to crown Jesus King in our lives.

10月16日

他造天使为风，为差役的为火焰。——希伯来书 1:7

读经：希伯来书 1

上帝的仆人应该像火焰一样！在我看来，没有任何一个有异象的人，特别是靠圣灵能力得到异象的人，能读那节奇妙的经文而不被激起成为对主充满热情的火焰，那火焰似乎可以燃尽一切妨碍他前进的东西。

一团火焰！那是永恒的火；持续的火；不断燃烧的火；圣洁的内在火焰；这正是上帝的儿子在世上所体现的。上帝对我们的要求不过是我们也成为火焰！在我看来，如果五旬节的力量要兴起并发挥效力，我们必须拥有活生生的信心，这样基督的大能和能力才能通过我们流动，直到我们的生命为了上帝充满活力、被激动和燃烧起来。

这里重要的一点是，圣灵到来是为了让耶稣成为王。在我看来，那颗在我们相信时赐给我们的种子——那是永恒的生命种子——拥有如此强大的复活力量，以至于我看到一种带有王者特质的新创造从中升起。王不仅要住在我们里面，而且祂王的显现的所有荣耀都要在我们里面显出来。哦，愿祂以这种方式在我们里面工作，溶化我们，直到一种新秩序在我们里面兴起，使我们被祂的怜悯感动！我看到我们可以进入神的秩序，在那里异象变得更加明亮，主以祂所有的美德和恩赐彰显祂的荣耀；所有的荣耀似乎充满了彻底死于自我、活于神的灵魂。人们谈论了很多关于死亡的事情，但有一种死亡是如此深沉在神里，从那种死亡中，神带来祂生命的辉煌和祂所有的荣耀。

一次成为神之火焰的机会出现在我从埃及前往意大利的旅途中。我现在告诉你的事情确实发生了。在船上以及各处，神一直与我同在。船上有个男人突然倒下了；他的妻子非常惊慌，其他人似乎也一样。有些人说他会死，但哦，成为一团火焰，让活生生的基督住在你里面！

如果我们必须为了力量而祈祷，如果我们必须等到感觉到他的同在，那说明我们已经倒退了。圣灵的洗已经降临在你身上：“圣灵降临在你们身上，你们就必得着能力”（使徒行传 1:8）。你里面有比世界上更大的力量（约翰一书 4:4）。哦，要从我们的不信中醒来，凭着这本宝贵的经书的权柄，为神勇敢起来啊！

所以我奉耶稣的名赶走了魔鬼，让那男人和他妻子都惊讶的是，他居然能站起来。他说：“这是什么？它遍布全身。我以前从未有过这样的感觉。”从头顶到脚底，神的力量震动了他。神已经赐给我们权柄去掌控魔鬼的能力。哦，但愿我们能活在荣耀超越的地方！这会让任何人都像火焰一样燃烧。

今天的思考：当我们接受圣灵的洗礼时，是为了在我们的生命中加冕耶稣为王。

October 15

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds. — 2 Corinthians 10:4

Scripture reading: 2 Corinthians 10

People ask, “Do all speak with tongues?” Certainly not. But all people may speak as the Spirit gives utterance—as in the Upper Room and at the house of Cornelius and at Ephesus when Jesus‘ followers were filled with the Holy Spirit.

There is quite a difference between having a gift and speaking as the Spirit gives utterance. If I had been given the gift of tongues when I was filled with the Holy Spirit, then I could have spoken in tongues at any time, because gifts and calling remain (Romans 11:29). But I couldn‘t speak in tongues after I was baptized. Why? It was because I had received the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, but I hadn‘t received the gift of tongues.

However, I received the Holy Spirit, who is the Giver of all gifts. And nine months afterward, God gave me the gift of tongues so that I could speak in tongues at any time. But do I? God forbid! Why? Because no man ought to use a gift; the Holy Spirit uses the gift.

I have a reason for talking like this. People come up to me all the time and say, “I have been prayed for, and I am just the same.” It is enough to make you kick them. I don‘t mean that literally. I would be the last man to kick anybody in this place. God forbid. But if I can get you enraged against the powers of darkness and the powers of disease, if I can wake you up, you won‘t go to bed unless you prove that there is a Master in you who is greater than the power that is hanging around you.

Many times I have gone to a house in which an insane person lived and have been shut in with him in order to deliver him. I have gone in determined that he would be delivered. In the middle of the night chiefly, sometimes in the middle of the day, the demon powers would come and bite me and handle me terribly roughly. But I never gave in. It would dethrone a higher principle if I had to give in.

May the God of grace and mercy strengthen us. In the measure that we destroy these evil powers, we make it easier for weak believers. For every time Satan overcomes a saint, it gives him ferocity for another attack; but when he is subdued, he will come to the place where defeat is written against him.

In your home, with your spouse and children, you will have audacity of determination, along with a righteous indignation, against the power of disease to cast it out. That is worth more to you than anything you could buy.

Thought for today: No one can have a knowledge of an inward Christ without having a longing that there will be an increase of souls saved.

10月15日

因为我们争战的兵器不是属血气的，而是在 神面前有能力，可以攻破坚固的营垒。 — 哥林多后书 10:4

经文阅读：哥林多后书第10章

有人问：“所有人都会说方言吗？”当然不是。但所有人都可以按圣灵所赐的说话——就像在楼上的房间、哥尼流的家以及耶稣的跟随者在以弗所被圣灵充满时一样。

拥有恩赐和按照圣灵所赐发言之间有很大的不同。如果我在被圣灵充满的时候就被赐了说方言的恩赐，那么我任何时候都可以说方言，因为恩赐和呼召是永远的（罗马书 11:29）。但我受洗后却不能说方言。为什么呢？因为我已经凭说方言的证据领受了圣灵，但我还没有领受说方言的恩赐。

然而，我收到了圣灵，他是所有恩赐的赐予者。九个月后，上帝赐给了我说方言的恩赐，让我可以随时说方言。但我会用吗？绝不！为什么？因为没有人应该使用恩赐；是圣灵使用恩赐。

我说这些话是有原因的。总有人走过来说，‘有人为我祈祷过，但我还是一样。’这简直让人忍不住想踹他们。我可不是字面意思。我是这里最不可能踹人的人。天哪，闪开吧。但如果我能让你对黑暗势力和疾病势力感到愤怒，如果我能唤醒你，你就不会睡觉，除非你证明你里面有一位大师，比那围绕在你周围的力量更强。

很多次我去过有人精神失常的房子，并且被关在里面和他一起，为了拯救他。我进去时下定决心要救他。主要是在深夜，有时候在白天，邪灵的力量会出现，咬我，对我手脚非常粗暴。但我从不屈服。如果我屈服了，那将意味着更高的原则被推翻。

愿恩典和慈悲的上帝加力量给我们。当我们摧毁这些邪恶势力时，也让软弱的信徒更容易生活。每当撒旦战胜一个圣徒时，这会让他下次攻击时更凶猛；但当他被制服时，他就会来到败北注定的地方。

在你的家里，和你的配偶及孩子们在一起时，你会有坚定的决心，同时对疾病的力量怀有正义的愤怒去驱逐它。这对你来说比你能买到的任何东西都更有价值。

今日思考：没有人能真正了解内在的基督，而不渴望更多的灵魂得到拯救。

October 14

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. — Romans 15:2

Scripture reading: Romans 14:12–15:2

If it is only a finger or a tooth that aches, if it is only a corn on your foot that pinches you or anything in the body that detracts from the highest spiritual attainment, the kingdom of heaven is dethroned to a degree; “the kingdom of heaven suffers violence” (Matthew 11:12).

By the Word of God, I am proving to you that the kingdom of heaven is within you. “Greater is he that is in you” (1 John 4:4 KJV)—the Son of God, the kingdom of heaven within you— “than he that is in the world” (v. 4 KJV)—the power of Satan outside you.

Disease or weakness, or any distraction in you, is a power of violence that can take the kingdom of heaven in you by force. The same spiritual power that will reveal this to you, will relieve you.

On the authority of the Word of God, I maintain that “greater is he that is in you” (1 John 4:4 KJV) than any power of Satan that is around you (v. 4). How much more would be done if you would inwardly claim your rights and deliver yourselves!

I believe the Bible from front to back. If, by the power of God, I put in you an audacity, a determination, so that you won‘t let Satan rest, you will be victorious. Praise the Lord!

Why do I take this attitude? Because for every step of my life since my baptism, I have had to pay the price of everything for others. God has to take me through to the place so that I may be able to show the people how to do it. Some people come up to me and say, “I have been waiting for the baptism, and I am having such a struggle. I am having to fight for every inch of it. Isn‘t it strange?” No. A thousand to one, God is preparing you to help somebody else who is desiring to receive it.

The reason I am so firm about the necessity of getting the baptism in the Holy Spirit, and about the significance of the Spirit‘s making a manifestation when He comes in, is this: I fought it. I went to a meeting because I had heard people were speaking in tongues there. I forced myself on the attention of those in the meeting almost like a man who was mad. I told the people there, “This meeting of yours is nothing. I have left better conditions at home. I am hungry and thirsty for something.”

“What do you want?” they asked.

“I want tongues.”

“You want the baptism?” they asked.

“Not I,” I said. “I have the baptism. I want tongues.”

I could have had a fight with anybody. The whole situation was this: God was training me for something else. The power of God fell upon my body with such ecstasy of joy that I could not satisfy the joy within with my natural tongue; then I found the Spirit speaking through me in other tongues.

What did it mean? I knew that I had had anointings of joy before this, and expressions of the blessed attitude of the Spirit of life, and joy in the Holy Spirit; I had felt it all the way through my life. But when the fullness came with a high tide, with an overflowing life, I knew that was different from anything else. And I knew that was the baptism, but God had to show me.

Thought for today: The Bible won‘t have an atom of power in you if you don‘t put it into practice in yourself.

10月14日

各人应当为了别人的益处取悦邻舍，以造就别人。——罗马书 15:2

经文阅读：罗马书 14:12–15:2

如果只是手指或牙齿痛，如果只是脚上的鸡眼让你疼，或者身体上有什么影响了最高的灵性成就，那么在某种程度上，天国就被推翻了；“天国是受暴力侵犯的”（马太福音 11:12）。

借着神的话语，我向你证明，天国就在你里面。“那在你们里面的，比那在世界上的更大”（约翰一书 4:4）——就是神的儿子，天国在你里面——“胜过那在世界上的”（同节）——就是在你外面的撒但的权势。

疾病或虚弱，或你身上的任何干扰，都是一种暴力的力量，它可以强行夺取你内心的天国。向你揭示这一点的同样的灵性力量，也会帮助你得到缓解。

凭借神的话语权威，我坚持认为，“住在你们里面的比那在世界上的更大”（约翰一书 4:4 KJV），比你周围的任何撒但的权势都大（第 4 节）。如果你能在内心认领自己的权利并解救自己，会发生更多的事情！

我从头到尾都相信圣经。如果靠着神的力量，我在你心中种下大胆和决心，让你不让撒旦有片刻安宁，你就会得胜。赞美主！

我为什么会有这种态度？因为自我受洗以来，我生活中的每一步，都必须为别人付出一切代价。上帝必须带我走到那个地方，好让我能够向人们展示如何去做。有些人会走到我面前说，‘我一直在等受洗，我正在经历极大的挣扎。我必须为每一寸进展而奋斗。这不奇怪吗？’不。一千比一，上帝是在准备你去帮助其他渴望接受它的人。

我之所以如此坚信必须接受圣灵的洗，以及圣灵在降临时显现的重要性，是有原因的：我曾经反抗过。我去参加一个聚会，因为听说有人在那里说方言。我强行吸引了聚会上人们的注意，几乎像一个发疯的人。我对在那里的人说：“你们的这个聚会算不了什么。我在家里留下了更好的环境。我渴望追求一些东西。”

“你想要什么？”他们问。

我想要舌头。

“你想要受洗吗？”他们问道。

“不是我，”我说。“我有洗礼。我想要说方言。”

我本可以和任何人打架。整个情况是这样的：上帝在为我训练别的东西。上帝的力量降临在我的身体上，那种喜悦的狂喜让我无法用自然的语言表达内心的喜悦；然后我发现圣灵通过我说起了别的方言。

这是什么意思呢？我知道在这之前我曾经有过喜乐的恩膏，也感受过生命之灵那蒙福的态度，以及在圣灵里的喜乐；我一生中一直都有这种感觉。但当满溢来临时，犹如潮水高涨，生命充满溢出，我知道那跟以前的任何感受都不同。我知道那就是洗礼，只是上帝需要向我显明。

今日的思考：如果你不在自己身上实践，圣经对你就毫无力量。

October 13

For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. — Psalm 91:11

Scripture reading: Psalm 91

I have looked through my Bible, and I cannot find where God brings disease and sickness. I know it is the power of God that brings the glory. Yet it is the Devil and not God at all who brings sickness and disease. Why does he? I know this: Satan is God‘s whip, and if you don‘t obey God, God will stand to one side and Satan will devour you. But God will only allow him to devour so much, as was the case with Job. The Lord told Satan, “You may go only so far, and no further. Don‘t touch his life.” (See Job 2:6.)

Why is Satan allowed to bring sickness? It is because we know better than we act. If we would be true to our convictions and walk according to the light we have been given, God would verify His presence in the midst of us, and we would know that sickness cannot “come near [our] dwelling; for He shall give His angels charge over [us], to keep [us] in all [our] ways” (Psalm 91:10–11).

When Satan can get to your body, he will, if possible, make the pain or the weakness so distracting that it will affect your mind and always bring your mind down to where the pain is. When that takes place, you do not have the same freedom in your spirit to lift up your heart and shout and praise the Lord. The distraction of the pain brings the foundational power, which ought to be full of praise to God, down into the body. And through that—concerning everybody who is afflicted—“the kingdom of heaven suffers violence” (Matthew 11:12).

Thought for today: Anything that takes me from a position where I am in an attitude of worship, peace, and joy; where I have a consciousness of the presence of God; where there is an inward moving of the powers of God that makes me able to lift myself up and live in the world as though I were not of it (because I am not of it); anything that dethrones me from that attitude is evil, is satanic.

10月13日

因为他要为你吩咐他的使者，在你一切所行的道路上保护你。——诗篇 91:11

读经：诗篇91篇

我查阅了圣经，但找不到上帝带来疾病和病痛的地方。我知道带来荣耀的是上帝的力量。然而，带来疾病和病痛的完全是魔鬼，而不是上帝。那他为什么这样做呢？我知道这一点：撒旦是上帝的鞭子，如果你不顺从上帝，上帝会站在一旁，而撒旦会吞吃你。但上帝只会允许他吞吃到一定程度，就像约伯的情况一样。主告诉撒旦：“你只能到这里，不能再往前。不要伤害他的生命。”（参见约伯记 2:6）

为什么撒旦被允许带来疾病？这是因为我们知道得比我们行动得多。如果我们能够忠于自己的信念，并按照我们所得到的光行走，上帝就会在我们中间显明祂的存在，我们也会知道疾病无法“临近[我们]的居所，因为祂要为[我们]差遣使者，在[我们]一切的道路上守护[我们]”（诗篇 91:10–11）。

当撒旦能侵入你的身体时，如果可能的话，他会让疼痛或虚弱变得如此分散注意力，以至于影响你的思维，总是把你的注意力拉回到疼痛上。当这种情况发生时，你的灵里就没有同样的自由去提升你的心灵、欢呼和赞美主。疼痛的干扰会把原本应该充满对上帝赞美的根本力量带入到身体中。通过这一点——关于每一个受苦的人——“天国是被迫害的”（马太福音 11:12）。

今日的思考：任何让你离开崇拜、平安和喜乐的状态，让你失去对上帝同在的意识，让你无法感受到上帝的力量从内心流动，使你能够自我振作并以仿佛不属于这个世界的方式生活的事情（因为你本就不属于它）；任何将你从这种状态中拉下的东西，都是邪恶的，是撒旦的。

October 12

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses. — Psalm 107:6

Scripture reading: Psalm 50

Does God know all about you? Is He acquainted with you altogether? Why should you, under any circumstances, believe that you will be better off by being diseased? When disease is impurity, why should you ever believe that you will be sanctified by having a great deal of sickness?

Some people talk about God being pleased to put disease on His children. “Here is a person I love,” says God. “I will break his arm. Then, so that he will love Me more, I will break his leg. So that he will love Me even more, I will give him a weak heart.”

The whole thing won‘t stand daylight. Yet people are always talking this way, and they never think to read the Word of God, which says, “Before I was afflicted I went astray” (Psalm 119:67). They have never read the following words into their lives:

Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted. Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near to the gates of death. Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses. (Psalm 107:17–19)

Is it right to say, “You know, my brother, I have suffered so much in this affliction that it has made me know God better”? Well, now, before you agree, ask God for a lot more affliction so that you will get to know Him still better. If you won‘t ask for more affliction to make you still purer, I won‘t believe that the first affliction made you purer, because if it had, you would have more faith in it. It appears that you do not have faith in your afflictions. It is only talk, but talk doesn‘t count unless it is backed up by fact. However, if people can see that your words are backed up by fact, then they have some grounds for believing in them.

Thought for today: Why not trust God who knows all about you, instead of trusting in people who know only what you have told them?

10月12日

于是他们在困境中向耶和华呼求，他就把他们从困苦中救出来。— 诗篇 107:6

读经：诗篇50篇

上帝真的了解你的一切吗？他完全熟悉你吗？无论在任何情况下，你为什么会相信生病会让你更好？当疾病是不纯时，你为什么会相信大量的疾病会让你变得圣洁呢？

有人说上帝喜欢让祂的孩子生病。“这是我所爱的人，”上帝说。“我会弄断他的手臂。然后，为了让他更爱我，我会弄断他的腿。为了让他更爱我，我会让他心脏虚弱。”

整件事经不起推敲。然而人们总是这样说话，却从不想去读上帝的话语，上面写着：“我受苦以前走了迷路”（诗篇119:67）。他们从未将下面这些话应用到自己的生活中：

愚昧人因自己的过犯和罪孽受苦。他们的心灵厌恶各样食物，走近死亡的门口。于是他们在困境中向耶和华呼求，祂就救他们脱离苦难。（诗篇 107:17–19）

说“你知道吗，我的兄弟，我在这种苦难中受了这么多，正是它让我更认识上帝”这样的说法对吗？嗯，现在，在你同意之前，先向上帝祈求更多的苦难，这样你才能更深入地认识祂。如果你不愿意请求更多的苦难来让自己变得更纯洁，那我就不相信第一次苦难让你变得更纯洁，因为如果真的变纯洁了，你会对它有更多的信心。看起来你并不相信自己的苦难。光说不算数，除非有事实支持。但是，如果别人能看到你的话有事实作支撑，那他们就有理由去相信你的话。

今日思考：为什么不信任全然了解你的上帝，而要信任那些只知道你告诉他们的人的人呢？