Category: Daily Devotionals – Smith Wigglesworth

October 11

Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. — Ephesians 6:10–11

Scripture reading: Ephesians 6:10–20

There is a power in you that is greater than any other power. By the help of the Spirit, may you come into a place of deliverance, a place of holy sanctification, where you dare to stand against the Devil‘s‘ schemings, drive them back, and cast them out. May the Lord help us!

I want God to give you an inward awakening, a revelation of truth within you, an audacity, a flaming indignation against the powers of Satan.

Lot had a righteous indignation—temporarily—but it came too late. He ought to have had it when he went into Sodom, not when he was coming out. But I don‘t want any one of you to be dejected because you didn‘t take a step in the right direction sooner. Always be thankful that you are alive to hear and to change the situation.

You must gain an inward knowledge that God is Lord over all the power of Satan. I don‘t doubt your sincerity about being saved, about having been justified in Christ. It is not for me to question a man‘s sincerity regarding his righteousness. Yet I feel I have a right to say that there is a deeper sincerity to reach for; there is a greater audacity of faith and fact to attain. There is something that you have to wake up to where you will never allow disease to have you or sin to have you or a weak heart or a pain in your back to have you. You will never allow anything that isn‘t perfect life to have anything to do with you. Those who try to serve two masters always lose (Matthew 6:24). If you try to join up with two things—the Lord and the Devil—the Devil will get you in the end. Allow Christ to be the Lord of your life today.

Thought for today: You are not going to oppose devils if you cannot master yourself, because you will soon find the devils to be bigger than yourself.

10月11日

要在主里刚强，倚靠他的能力全副武装自己，好能抵挡魔鬼的诡计。——以弗所书 6:10-11

经文阅读：以弗所书 6:10–20

你体内有一种力量，比任何其他力量都强大。在圣灵的帮助下，愿你进入一个得释放的地方，一个神圣成圣的地方，在那里你敢于面对魔鬼的诡计，将它们击退，并把它们赶走。愿主帮助我们！

我希望上帝给你内心的觉醒，让你在内心领悟真理，拥有大胆，燃起对撒旦权势的愤怒。

罗得曾经有过正义的愤怒——只是暂时的——但那时已经太晚了。他本应该在进入所多玛的时候就有这种愤怒，而不是在出来的时候。但我不希望你们任何人因为没有早点走向正确的方向而沮丧。永远要感恩，你还活着，还能听到真理并改变现状。

你必须获得一种内在的认识，明白神是掌管撒旦一切权力的主。我不怀疑你得救的真诚，也不怀疑你在基督里已经称义的真心。我没有权利去怀疑一个人在正义上的真诚。然而，我觉得我有权说，你还有更深的真诚可以追求；还有更大的信心和事实的胆量可以达到。你必须醒悟，有些事情你永远不会让疾病支配你，也不会让罪支配你，更不会让软弱的心或背痛支配你。你永远不会让任何不完美的生命与你有任何关系。那些试图侍奉两个主人的人总会失败（马太福音 6:24）。如果你试图同时跟随两样东西——主和魔鬼——最终魔鬼会得着你。今天就让基督成为你生命的主吧。

今天的感悟：如果你不能掌控自己，你就无法对抗恶魔，因为你很快会发现恶魔比你强大得多。

October 10

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. — Matthew 11:12

Scripture reading: Matthew 11:25–30

This is a message to every believer. Every believer has the life of the Lord in him. And if Jesus, “who is our life” (Colossians 3:4), were to come, instantly our life would go out to meet His life because we exist by and consist of the life of the Son of God. (See verse 4.) “Your life is hidden with Christ in God” (v. 3).

If all believers understood this wonderful passage that is in the twenty-second chapter of Luke‘s gospel, there would be great joy in their hearts:

Then He said to them, “With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” (Luke 22:15–16)

Everyone who is in Christ Jesus will be there when He sits down the first time to break bread in the kingdom of heaven. It is not possible for any child of God to remain on earth when Jesus comes. May the Lord help us to believe it.

I know there is a great deal of speculation on the Rapture and on the coming of the Lord. But let me tell you to hope for edification and comfort, for the Scripture by the Holy Spirit won‘t let me focus on anything except the edification, consolation, and comfort of the Spirit. (See 1 Corinthians 14:3.)

I don‘t mean that we are to cover up sin. God won‘t let us do that. But we must unveil truth. And what is truth? The Word of God is the truth. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me” (John 5:39).

What does the truth say? It says that when Christ appears, all who are His at His coming will be changed “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye” (1 Corinthians 15:52). We will be presented at the same moment as all those who have fallen sleep in Him, and we will all go together.

We who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep….And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:15–18)

For I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes. (Luke 22:18)

Two thousand years will soon have passed since the Lord broke bread around the table with His disciples. I am longing, the saints are longing, for the grand union when millions, billions, trillions will unite with Him in that great fellowship Supper. Praise the Lord! But now, what stimulation, what power must be working every day until that Day appears!

Thought for today: Every believer belongs to the kingdom of heaven.

10月10日

从施洗约翰的时候到现在，天国一直遭受暴力，强暴的人正抢夺它。——马太福音 11:12

经文阅读：马太福音 11:25–30

这是给每一个信徒的信息。每一个信徒里面都有主的生命。如果耶稣，“就是我们的生命”（歌罗西书 3:4）来到，我们的生命会立即出去迎接祂的生命，因为我们是靠上帝儿子的生命而存在和构成的。（参见第 4 节）。“你们的生命与基督一同隐藏在神里”（第 3 节）。

如果所有信徒都理解路加福音第22章中这段奇妙的经文，他们的心中将充满巨大的喜悦：

然后他对他们说：“我热切地渴望在受难之前与你们一起吃这逾越节；因为我告诉你们，我以后不再吃，直到它在上帝的国里得以成全。”（路加福音 22:15–16）

凡在基督耶稣里的人，当祂第一次在天国坐下擘饼时都会在那里。当耶稣来到时，任何神的孩子都不可能留在地上。愿主帮助我们相信这一点。

我知道关于被提和主再来的事情有很多猜测。但让我告诉你，应当抱着盼望去寻求造就和安慰，因为圣灵通过圣经不会让我关注其他任何事，除了灵里的造就、安慰和鼓励。（参见哥林多前书14:3）

我不是说我们要掩盖罪。上帝不会让我们那样做。但是我们必须揭示真理。那什么是真理呢？上帝的话就是真理。耶稣说：“我就是道路、真理、生命”（约翰福音 14:6）。“你们查考圣经，因为你们以为里面有永生；给我作见证的就是这些经文”（约翰福音 5:39）。

真相说了什么？它说，当基督显现时，所有属于祂的人在祂再来时都会在“一瞬间，眨眼之间”被改变（哥林多前书 15:52）。我们将在同一时刻与所有在祂里睡了的人一同被呈现，我们都会一起去。

我们这活着还剩下，直到主再来的，决不会在那些睡了的人之前……基督里死了的人将首先复活。然后我们这活着还剩下的人，将与他们一同被提到云里，在空中与主相遇。这样，我们将永远与主同在。所以，用这些话彼此安慰吧。（帖撒罗尼迦前书 4:15–18）

我告诉你们，我不再喝这葡萄树的果子，直到神的国来到。（路加福音 22:18）

自从主与祂的门徒一起在桌旁擘饼以来，已经快两千年了。我渴望，圣徒们也渴望，期待那宏大的团聚，届时数百万、数十亿、数万亿的人将与祂在那盛大的团契晚餐中联合。赞美主！但现在，每一天必须有多大的激励、多大的力量在工作，直到那一天到来啊！

今日感悟：每一个信徒都属于天国。

October 9

Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another? — Matthew 11:3

Scripture reading: Matthew 11:12–24

I want you to see how satanic power can work in the mind. Satan came to John when he was in prison. I find that Satan can come to any of us.

But I want to prove that we have a greater power than Satan‘s—in imagination, in thought, in everything. Satan came to John the Baptist in prison and said to him, “Don‘t you think you have made a mistake? Here you are in prison. Isn‘t there something wrong with the whole business? After all, you may be greatly deceived about being a forerunner of the Christ.”

I find men who might be giants of faith, who might be leaders of society, who might rise to subdue kingdoms (Hebrews 11:33), who might be noble among princes, but they are defeated because they allow the suggestions of Satan to dethrone their better knowledge of the power of God. May God help us.

John sent two of his disciples to ask Jesus, “Are You the Messiah?” How could Jesus send those men back with a stimulating truth, with a personal, effective power that would stir their hearts to know that they had met Him about whom all the prophets had spoken? What would declare it? How would they know? How could they tell it?

Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: the blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.” (Matthew 11:4–5)

And when they saw the miracles and wonders and heard the gracious words He spoke as the power of God rested upon Him, they were ready to believe.

Thought for today: Unless we are filled, or divinely insulated, with the power of God, we may be defeated by the power of Satan.

10月9日

你是要来的那一位吗，还是我们还需要等别人？——马太福音11:3

经文阅读：马太福音 11:12–24

我想让你看看撒旦的力量是如何在心灵中起作用的。约翰在监狱里的时候，撒旦来找过他。我发现撒旦可以来找我们任何人。

但我想证明，我们拥有的力量比撒旦更大——无论是在想象力、思维上，还是在一切方面。撒旦曾在监狱里来到施洗约翰面前，对他说：“你不觉得自己可能犯了错吗？你现在在监狱里。这整个事情是不是有问题？毕竟，你可能对自己是基督的先驱这一点大大误解了。”

我发现有些男人可能是信心的巨人，可能是社会的领袖，可能升起征服列国（希伯来书 11:33），可能在诸王之中显为高贵，但他们被打败了，因为他们让撒旦的建议取代了他们对神大能的更好认知。愿神帮助我们。

约翰派了两个门徒去问耶稣：“你是弥赛亚吗？”耶稣怎么能让他们带着一个令人振奋的真理回去，用一种个人的、有力的方式触动他们的心，让他们知道自己遇见了那位所有先知都曾预言过的人呢？什么能说明这一点？他们怎么会知道？他们又该怎么说明呢？

耶稣回答说：“你们去把所听所见的事告诉约翰：瞎子看见了，瘸子行走了，麻风病人得了洁净，聋子听见了，死人复活了，穷人有福音传给他们。”（马太福音 11:4-5）

当他们看见这些奇迹和神迹，并且听到他在神的能力降临时所说的亲切话语，他们就准备相信了。

今日思考：除非我们充满了神的力量，或被神圣地保护，否则我们可能会被撒旦的力量击败。

October 8

There has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. — Matthew 11:11

Scripture reading: Matthew 11:1–11

God wants to bring to us a living realization of what the Word of God is, what the Lord God means by what He says, and what we may expect if we believe it. I am certain that the Lord wishes to put before us a living fact that will, by our faith, bring into action a principle that is within our own hearts so that Christ can dethrone every power of Satan.

Only this truth revealed to our hearts can make us so much greater than we ever had any idea we could be. There is only the need of revelation and of stirring ourselves up to understand the mightiness that God has within us. We may prove what He has accomplished in us if we will only be willing to carry through what He has already accomplished in us.

For God has not accomplished something in us that should lie dormant, but He has brought within us a power, a revelation, a life that is so great that I believe God wants to reveal the greatness of it. There isn‘t anything you can imagine that is greater than what man may accomplish through Him.

But everything on a human basis is very limited compared with what God has for us on a spiritual basis. If man can accomplish much in a short time, what may we accomplish if we will believe the revealed Word and take it as truth that God has given us and that He wants to bring out in revelation and force?

Notice that John the Baptist was the forerunner of Jesus. Within his own short history, John the Baptist had the power of God revealed to him as probably no man in the old dispensation had. He had a wonderful revelation. He had a mighty anointing.

See how he moved Israel. See how the power of God rested upon him. See how he had the vision of Jesus and went forth with power and turned the hearts of Israel to Him. You, too, can do great things for God if you are a part of His kingdom!

Thought for today: Oh, the possibilities of man in the hands of God!

10月8日

从来没有兴起比施洗约翰更伟大的人；不过在天国里最小的，比他还要大。——马太福音 11:11

经文阅读：马太福音 11:1–11

上帝希望让我们活生生地领会神的话语是什么，主耶和华说的话是什么意思，以及如果我们相信它，我们可以期待什么。我确定主希望把一个活生生的事实呈现在我们面前，这个事实通过我们的信心，会激活我们心中的一个原则，让基督可以废除撒旦的所有权势。

只有这种向我们内心揭示的真理，才能让我们变得远比我们曾经认为的更伟大。我们只需要揭示的启示，以及激励自己去理解神在我们体内的巨大力量。如果我们愿意去实践祂已经在我们身上完成的事情，我们就能够证明祂在我们身上所做的一切。

因为神在我们里面没有成就任何应当沉睡的东西，而是带来了力量、启示和生命，如此伟大，我相信神想要显明它的伟大。没有什么比人通过他所能成就的更伟大了。

但从人类的角度来看，一切都是非常有限的，相比之下，上帝为我们在属灵方面所预备的要宽广得多。如果人类在短时间内能成就很多，那么如果我们相信神所启示的话语，并把它当作真理，相信上帝赐给我们并想要通过启示和力量彰显的东西，那么我们可能达成的成就又会有多大呢？

注意约翰浸礼者是耶稣的先驱。在他自己短暂的生平中，约翰浸礼者被显明了上帝的能力，这可能是旧约时代无人曾有的。他有过奇妙的启示。他有强大的膏抹。

看看他是如何带领以色列的。看看上帝的力量如何降临在他身上。看看他如何拥有耶稣的异象，并带着能力前行，使以色列的心归向祂。如果你是祂国度的一部分，你也可以为上帝做伟大的事情！

今日感悟：啊，当人掌握在上帝手中，会有多大的可能性啊！

October 7

And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” — Acts 19:15

Scripture reading: Acts 19:11–20

What is belief? Let me sum it up in a few sentences. To believe is to have the knowledge of Him in whom you believe. It is not to believe in the word Jesus, but to believe in the nature of Christ, to believe in the vision of Christ, for all power has been given unto Him, and greater is He who is within you in the revelation of faith than he who is in the world. (See 1 John 4:4.) And so I say to you, do not be discouraged if every demon has not gone out. The very moment they have gone, do not think that is the end of it. What we have to see is that if all it takes is using the name of Jesus, those evil powers would have gone out in that name by the sons of Sceva. It is not that. It is the power of the Holy Spirit with the revelation of the deity of our Christ of glory; it is knowing that all power is given unto Him. Through the knowledge of Christ, and through faith in who He is, demons must surrender, demons must go out.

I say this reverently: these bodies of ours are so constructed by God that we may be filled with the divine revelation of the Son of God until it is manifest to the devils we confront, and they will have to go. The Master is in; they see the Master. “Jesus I know, and Paul I know.” The ministry of the Master! How we need to get to know Him until within us we are full of the manifestation of the King over all demons.

Brothers and sisters, my heart is full. The depths of my yearnings are for the Pentecostal people. My cry is that we will not miss the opportunity of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, that Christ may be manifested in our human frames (2 Corinthians 4:10) until every power of evil will be subject to the Christ who is manifested in us. The devils know Jesus.

Two important things are before us. First, we must surrender the mastery of ourselves to God. Then the embodiment of the Spirit gloriously covers our lives so that Jesus is glorified to the full. So first it is the losing of ourselves, and then it is the incoming of Another; it is the glorifying of Him that will fulfill all things, and when He gets hold of our lives, He can do it. When God gets hold of your life because you have yielded yourself to Him in this way, He will be delighted to allow Christ to be so manifested in you that it will be no difficulty for the Devil to know who you are.

I am satisfied that the purpose of Pentecost is to reestablish God in human flesh. Do I need to say it again? The power of the Holy Spirit has to come to be enthroned in the human life so that it does not matter where we find ourselves. Christ is manifested in the place where devils are, the place where religious devils are, the place where false religion and unbelief are, the place where formal religion has taken the place of holiness and righteousness. You need to have holiness—the righteousness and Spirit of the Master—so that in every walk of life, everything that is not like our Lord Jesus will have to depart. That is what is needed today.

I ask you in the Holy Spirit to seek the place where He is in power. “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” May God stamp this sobering question upon us, for the Devil is not afraid of us. May the Holy Spirit make us terrors of evildoers today, for the Holy Spirit came into us to judge the world of sin, of unbelief, and of righteousness; that is the purpose of the Holy Spirit. (See John 16:7–11.) Then Jesus will know us, and the devils will know us.

Thought for today: It is only when you are conquered by Christ that He is enthroned.

10月7日

那邪灵回答说：“耶稣我知道，保罗我也知道；你是谁？” ——使徒行传 19:15

经文阅读：使徒行传 19:11–20

信仰是什么？让我用几句话来总结一下。信仰就是认识你所信的人。信仰并不是相信“耶稣”这个名字，而是相信基督的本性，相信基督的异象，因为所有的权柄都已赐给了祂，在信心的启示中住在你里面的那位比在世界上的那位更大。（参见约翰一书4:4。）所以我告诉你们，如果每一个魔鬼都没有被赶出去，也不要灰心。魔鬼刚被赶出的时候，也不要认为事情就结束了。我们需要明白的是，如果只靠呼喊耶稣的名就够了，那么在斯基厄瓦的儿子们那里，这些邪恶的势力早就会因为这个名字而离开了。但情况并非如此。这是圣灵的力量加上对我们荣耀基督神性的启示；这是知晓一切权柄都赐给了祂。通过认识基督，通过对祂是谁的信心，魔鬼必须屈服，魔鬼必须离开。

我虔诚地说：我们的身体是上帝如此造就的，使我们能够被神子耶稣的神圣启示充满，直到我们所面对的魔鬼看得出来，他们就不得不离开。主人在这里；他们看见了主人。“我认识耶稣，也认识保罗。”主的事工！我们多么需要去认识他，直到我们内心充满了万恶之王的显现。

弟兄姐妹们，我的心充满了。我的渴望深深地为五旬节的弟兄姊妹而生。我呼求的是我们不要错过圣灵洗礼的机会，让基督在我们的人性里显现（哥林多后书 4:10），直到每一个邪恶的力量都归顺我们里面显现的基督。魔鬼们认识耶稣。

我们面前有两件重要的事情。首先，我们必须把对自己的掌控交给上帝。然后，圣灵的体现荣耀地覆盖我们的生命，使耶稣得到完全的荣耀。所以首先是失去自己，然后才是另一个进入；是荣耀他将成就一切，而当他掌握我们的生命时，他就能做到。当上帝掌握了你的生命，因为你以这种方式将自己奉献给他时，他会很高兴让基督在你里面如此显现，以至于魔鬼都能轻易认出你是谁。

我相信五旬节的目的是把神重新安置在人的肉身中。我需要再说一遍吗？圣灵的能力必须临到人的生命中成为宝座，这样无论我们身处何地都无关紧要。基督会显现在鬼魔所在的地方，显现在宗教鬼魔所在的地方，显现在虚假宗教和不信的地方，显现在形式化的宗教取代了圣洁与公义的地方。你需要有圣洁——主的公义和圣灵——这样在生活的每一个阶段，一切不像我们主耶稣的东西都必须离开。这就是今天所需要的。

我奉圣灵的名求你去寻找他彰显大能的地方。“耶稣我认识，保罗我也认识；但你是谁呢？”愿上帝将这个令人警醒的问题深刻地印在我们心里，因为魔鬼并不害怕我们。愿圣灵让我们今天成为作恶者的恐惧，因为圣灵进入我们，是要审判世人的罪、不信和义；这是圣灵的目的。（参见约翰福音16:7–11）那么耶稣会认识我们，魔鬼也会认识我们。

今天的思考：只有当你被基督征服时，他才能被尊为王。