tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:36:18 +0000Daily (M-F) quotes from Pentecostal pioneers whom the modern Christian is unlikely to come across in contemporary devotional reading.https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)Blogger3860125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-5988224177122298213Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:36:18 +00002026-09-28T20:36:18.106-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Making of a Missionary 9/29 Tuesday Truth It takes three to make a missionary. One goes, one prays, and one gives. -- Frank Bartleman https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-making-of-missionary-929-tuesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-4100197104857862011Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:35:14 +00002026-09-27T21:35:14.287-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: God's Church Is One 9/28 Monday Meditation We belong to the whole body of Christ, both in heaven and on earth. God's church is one. It is a terrible thing to go about dismembering the body of Christ. How foolish and wicked the petty differences between Christians will appear in the light of eternity. Christ is the "issue", not some doctrine about Him. The Gospel leads to Him. It exalts Christ, not some particular doctrine. To know Christ is the alpha and the omega of the Christian faith and practice. -- Frank Bartleman https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/gods-church-is-one-928-monday-meditation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-8251828432810724642Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:51:57 +00002026-09-24T21:51:57.834-04:00FEAST OF TABERNACLES -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS! The final and most joyous festival of the year begins at sundown [Friday, Sept. 25] and continues for seven days. It is called Feast of Tabernacles (or Shelters or Booths), Feast of Ingathering, Season of Our Rejoicing, or Sukkot. It celebrates God's care and protection during forty years of wandering in the wilderness and His continuing sustenance. All Jews made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. They made and lived in temporary shelters (sukkah booths) recalling their years of wandering. In modern times families or congregations build outdoor shelters filled with harvest decorations. It was during the Feast of Tabernacles' illumination ceremony that Jesus said, "I am the light of the world." It was during the water pouring ceremony that Jesus said, "I am the living water." There is evidence by comparing time frames in the Scriptures to prove that Jesus was born during the Feast of Tabernacles and that He will return during the Feast of Tabernacles. "Jesus is God tabernacling among men. The word _dwelt_ in Greek implies a temporary dwelling, a sukkah booth. Jesus is God's ultimate sukkah booth. For God, in Jesus Christ, tabernacles among men. As the Temple was a temporary dwelling for the Shekinah (visible Glory of God), so Jesus tabernacling among us manifested the glory of God. He is the source of light and life to all who believe." (The Fall Feasts of Israel, by Mitch and Zhava Glaser)https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/feast-of-tabernacles-happy-birthday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-6505015146211448586Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:25:38 +00002026-09-23T21:25:38.808-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Father, Forgive Me 9/24 Thursday Thoughts I look up to the Father and say, "Father, forgive me for doing that thing." And the moment I do, He forgives me. It is wiped out as though it had never been. The instant that I confess it and tell the Father of it, Jesus says, "Lay that to My account." Notice that the Father has no memory of your past mistakes and failures. You must forget them too. --E. W. Kenyon https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/father-forgive-me-924-thursday-thoughts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-5694792679731846264Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:11:44 +00002026-09-22T21:11:44.530-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Our Righteous Advocate 9/23 Wednesday Wisdom "My little children, these things I write unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." [I John 2:1] I think that that is one of the most marvelous statements in the whole of the Epistles. Seated at the Father's right hand is our righteous Advocate; and the minute that I break fellowship, He is there in fellowship with the Father. I lose my sense of righteousness. He is the Righteous One. He is there, in the Presence of the Father, to plead my case. --E. W. Kenyon https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/our-righteous-advocate-923-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-4773431012033328908Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:17:46 +00002026-09-21T20:17:46.614-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Righteousness 9/22 Tuesday Truth God wants to fix it in our hearts that we are to be like Him; like Him in character. God wants righteousness in the inward parts, that we may be pure through and through. The Bible is the plumb line of everything, and unless we are plumbed right up with the Word of God, we will fail in righteousness. -- Smith Wigglesworthhttps://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/righteousness-922-tuesday-truth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-1008660961828201493Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:43:40 +00002026-09-20T15:43:40.657-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Be Eager to Pray 9/21 Monday Meditation In the early Azusa [Revival] days, you could hardly keep the saints off their knees. Whenever two believers met, they invariably went to prayer. Today we can harldy be dragged to prayer. Some make as much fuss about it as the old camel does in the East in kneeling to receive his load. He fusses and bites and groans before the driver can bring him down. -- Frank Bartleman. https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/be-eager-to-pray-921-monday-meditation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-3412929085845837762Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:17:50 +00002026-09-17T21:17:50.876-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Hindrance to the Work of God 9/18 Friday Faith The natural strength and ability of man are always the greatest hindrance to the work of God, and to God's working. -- Frank Bartleman (historian of the Azusa Revival)https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/hindrance-to-work-of-god-918-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-4195699807480687199Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:48:04 +00002026-09-16T16:48:04.309-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Joy in Our Spirit 9/17 Thursday Thoughts One day I saw that the secret of Christianity, the secret of evangelism, was that we were to have joy in our spirits. You remember Acts 13:52, "And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit." I Peter 1:8 tells us that it is joy unspeakable and full of glory. That didn't mean much to me until the Spirit unveiled it to me. Then I saw the secret of this new thing that was to come with the New Creation. "My joy I give unto you." This is something indescribable that fills our spirits. What does joy grow out of? What is the secret? I Corinthians 1:9, "God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." Fellowship is the secret, it is the thing that gives joy. When the fellowship is broken, the joy dies. -- E. W. Kenyon https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/joy-in-our-spirit-917-thursday-thoughts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-1617945241466420778Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:47:23 +00002026-09-15T21:47:23.706-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Be Ye Holy 9/16 Wednesday Wisdom I take the words of the epistle this morning, which says by the Holy Ghost, "Be ye holy." (I Peter 1:16). It is as easy as possible to be holy, but you can never be holy by your own efforts. When you lose your heart and Another takes your heart, and you lose your desires and He takes the desires, then you live in that sunshine of bliss which no mortal can ever touch. -- Smith Wigglesworthhttps://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/be-ye-holy-916-wednesday-wisdom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-5203824892967949861Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:55:43 +00002026-09-14T21:55:43.360-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Welcome to the Throne Room 8/24 Tuesday Truth That love impels Him to call us to Prayer. That call is the proof of our ability to stand in His presence. It is the proof of His making us reighteous enough to stand in His presence without reproof or condemnation. It means that we are ever welcome to the Throne Room. How few of us have ever realized this. It is sons visiting their Father. It is children coming joyously into the presence of a Loving Parent. -- E.W. Kenyonhttps://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/welcome-to-throne-room-915-tuesday-truth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-370711950591354044Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:36:37 +00002026-09-13T19:36:37.251-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: We Live by Faith 9/14 Monday Meditation The instant that you say that there are no Miracles in this dispensation, you deny that our walk is a walk by Faith, and you declare that our walk is a walk by Reason. I challenge you to find one place where God tells us as believers to walk by Reason. God is a Faith God. We are a Faith family. We are all born by Faith. We live by Faith. By Faith we live, breathe, and have our being in Christ. If there are no Miracles, then there is no reason for Faith. If there are no Miracles, God can't answer prayer, because He can't answer prayer of any character that is not a Miracle. -- E.W. Kenyon.https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/we-live-by-faith-914-monday-meditation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-2533349945155370218Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:20:56 +00002026-09-10T20:20:56.597-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Greatest Religious Need 9/11 Friday Faith The greatest religious need of our day would seem to be that of true followers of the meek and lowly Jesus. Religious enthusiasm easily goes to seed. The human spirit so predominates the show-off, religious spirit. But we must stick to our text -- Christ. He alone can save. The attention of the people must be first of all, and always, held to Him. A true Pentecost will produce a mighty conviction for sin, a turning to God. -- Frank Bartlemanhttps://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-greatest-religious-need-911-friday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-109924666626148246Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:14:17 +00002026-09-09T21:14:17.577-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Let Him Do With You What Seems Good 9/10 Thursday Thoughts Therefore let Him do with you what seemeth Him good, for He has His hand upon you and He will not willingly take it off till He has performed the thing He knows you need. So if He comes with a fan, be ready for the fan. [fanning mill that separates wheat from chaff -- Lep] If He comes with chastisement, be ready for chastisement. If He comes with correction, be ready for correction. Whatever He wills to do, let Him do it and He will bring you to the land of plenty. Oh, it is worth the world to be under the power of the Holy Ghost! -- Smith Wigglesworthhttps://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/let-him-do-with-you-what-seems-good-910.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-8677684798466826488Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:00:20 +00002026-09-08T21:00:20.371-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Pray-ers 9/9 Wednesday Wisdom One cannot spend an hour in conscious communion with the Father, the Son, the Spirit and the Word without carrying away from that trysting place the fragrance that fills the atmosphere. There is a heavenly fragrance about Jesus that lingers with the pray-ers. They are slow to speak. They are slow to judge. They are quick to love and quick to help. There is a holy calmness about their lives that challenges the restless ones; they crave that quietness of spirit. -- E.W. Kenyon.https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-pray-ers-99-wednesday-wisdom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-7305655766673697358Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:26:49 +00002026-09-07T20:26:49.712-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Your Will 9/8 Tuesday Truth When your will becomes entirely the will of God, then you are clearly in the place where the Holy Ghost can make Jesus Lord in your life, Lord over your purchases, Lord over your selling, Lord over your eating and your drinking, your clothing and your choice of companionship. -- Smith Wigglesworthhttps://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/your-will-98-tuesday-truth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-6546591496146874112Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:54:39 +00002026-09-06T17:54:39.219-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Prayer Alone Gives Success 9/7 Monday Meditation Preaching and personal work are God-honored and blessed vocations or ministries, but prayer is the foundation of it all. A man might preach with the eloquence of a Beecher and be the most skilled of diplomats as a soul winner, but he will fall short of his ministry in both fields if he isn't backed up by the prayer life. The failure of all Christian enterprises is a prayer failure. Prayer alone gives success. -- E. W. Kenyon.https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/prayer-alone-gives-success-97-monday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-6502067591981691029Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:35:04 +00002026-09-03T22:35:04.849-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Helpless Without This Word 9/4 Friday Faith We shall become flat, and anemic, and helpless without this Word, dormant and so helpless to take hold. You are not any good for anything apart from the Word. The Word is everything. The Word has to become everything. When the heavens and the earth are melted away then we shall be as bright, and brighter than the day, and going on to be consistent because of the Word of God. -- Smith Wigglesworthhttps://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/helpless-without-word-94-friday-faith.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-4189302232207983867Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:41:29 +00002026-09-02T21:41:29.750-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: So Much More for You 9/3 Thursday Thoughts And I say to you without contradiction, that Jesus has so much more for you than you have any conception. -- Smith Wigglesworth https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/so-much-more-for-you-93-thursday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-6819930945789991325Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:33:37 +00002026-09-01T21:33:37.828-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Lack of Prayer 9/2 Wednesday Wisdom There is no denying that the lack of prayer is the bane [death, destruction, ruin] of the individual believer. -- E.W. Kenyon. https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-lack-of-prayer-92-wednesday-wisdom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-348901791978455830Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:51:40 +00002026-08-31T20:51:40.147-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: A Visit With Our Father 9/1 Tuesday Truth This prayer habit will be born of your own will. This habit is hard to form for most people. It should never be a duty, for just as we do not enjoy those who visit us because it is their duty, so it is with the Father. We want those who love us to come because they cannot help it. Prayer is a visit with our Father. We should think of it as a rare opportunity. -- E. W. Kenyon.https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-visit-with-father-91-tuesday-truth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-275973540386971493Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:38:55 +00002026-08-30T17:38:55.954-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Precious in the Sight of God 8/31 Monday Meditation If the saints only knew how precious they are in the sight of God they would scarcely be able to sleep for thinking of His watchful, loving care. Oh, He is a precious Jesus! He is a lovely Savior! He is divine in all His attitude toward us, and makes our hearts to burn. There is nothing like it. "Oh," they said on the road to Emmaus, "did not our hearts burn within us, as He walked with us and talked with us?" (Luke 24:32). Oh beloved, it must be so today. --Smith Wigglesworth https://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/precious-in-sight-of-god-831-monday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-8673909206971225756Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:44:38 +00002026-08-27T20:44:38.394-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Something Greater Than We Can See 8/28 Friday Faith Faith is the substance and it is a reality, and God wants to bring us to the fact of it. He wants us to know that we have something greater than we can see or handle, because everything you can see and handle is going to pass away. The heavens are going to be wrapped up and the earth melt with fervent heat, but the Word of the Lord shall abide for ever. --Smith Wigglesworthhttps://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/something-greater-than-we-can-see-828.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-6681965256357411489Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:13:17 +00002026-08-26T19:13:17.870-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: God Has a Greater Plan 8/27 Thursday Thoughts God will do great things for us if we are prepared to receive them from Him. We are dull of comprehension because we let the cares of this world blind our eyes, but if we keep open to God, He has a greater plan for us in the future than we have seen or ever have dreamed about in the past. -- Smith Wigglesworthhttps://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/god-has-greater-plan-827-thursday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1312927998749568371.post-4957256212343494823Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:23:00 +00002026-08-25T20:23:00.035-04:00LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: The Prayer Responsibility 8/26 Wednesday Wisdom If you don't take time to pray, you are losing out. You can't say that you have no responsibility in the prayer life, for you have. To see a need is to have a call to prayer. There are people who will be utterly lost unless you take your place. Unless you do your part, men will cry against you through eternity. You can't plead that you have too mcuh work to do. You can pray while you work. You can't put up the plea that you do not know how; you can learn if you wish. For you to disobey the prayer call is for you to disobey the call of your Father. The prayer responsibility today is the most important thing of our lives. E. W. Kenyonhttps://lepsfaithquotes.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-prayer-responsibility-826-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Larry A. Lepard)0