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the condition of God’s blessing is absolute surrender of all into His hands.
The condition for obtaining God’s full blessing is absolute surrender to Him.
God does not ask you to give the perfect surrender in your strength, or by the power of your will; God is willing to work it in you.
Yes, it is His ability/strength thru us that enables us to do All Things as we rest in Him (Phil. 4:13).
cast away every fear.
Say: “My God, I am willing that You should make me willing.”
Do not be afraid that He will command from you what He will not bestow.
He has possession of you; He is living in your heart by His Holy Spirit.
Are we fully surrendered when He is president not just resident in our lives?
There is a God present who at that very moment takes possession of you. You may not feel it, you may not realize it, but God takes possession if you will trust Him.
When God has begun the work of absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender, then God holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it.
Such a life has two sides—on one side, absolute surrender to work what God wants you to do; on the other side, to let God work what He wants to do.
Yes, God has called us to abide in the Vine (Jesus). He is the sap that flows through the vine to us (the branches) to touch a broken world (Jn.15:5). But we must learn to rest and receive from Him. That is the example Jesus set for us when He walked this earth. John 5:19 says He did what He saw the Father doing. Jesus lived from an inflow of the Father's thoughts and actions. Thus, they worked as one together. So can we.
“By Your grace I desire to do Your will in everything, every moment of every day.” Say: “Lord God, not a word upon my tongue but for Your glory. Not a movement of my temper but for Your glory. Not an affection of love or hate in my heart but for Your glory, and according to Your blessed will.”
let our absolute surrender be one of simple, childlike., and unbounded trust.
God wants us to be separate from the world.
say: “Lord, anything for You.” If you say that with prayer, and speak that into God’s ear, He will accept it, and He will teach you what it means.
humble yourselves in His sight, and acknowledge that you have grieved the Holy Spirit by your self-will, self-confidence, and self-effort.
Denying self must every moment be the power of your life, and then Christ will come in and take possession of you.
How much Christian work is being done in the spirit of the flesh and in the power of self!
Who is there who truly longs to be delivered from the power of the self-life,
There is deliverance.
death to self, and fellowship with Christ.
Christ spoke of power to the disciples, but it was the Spirit filling their whole being that worked the power. I wish now to dwell upon the passage found
Galatians 5:22:
“Love is the fulfilling of the law”’ (Romans 13: 10),
Spirit of love? “The fruit of the Spirit is love.” Has it been our experience that the more we have of the Holy Spirit, the more loving we become?
Lord, melt us together into one by the power of the Holy Spirit.
God’s nature is to be always giving.
God communicates life to His creatures. And
You all know what it is to wear a badge. And Christ said to His disciples in effect: “I give you a badge, and that badge is love. That is to be your mark. It is the only thing in heaven or on earth by which men can know me.”
Self is our greatest curse. But, praise God, Christ came to redeem us from self.
deliverance from self-life means to be a vessel overflowing with love to everybody all the day.
Holy Spirit can pour God’s love into their heart.
(Romans 5:5).
I cannot learn to love until the Spirit of God fills my heart with God’s love, and I begin to long for God’s love in a very different sense from which I have sought it so selfishly—as a comfort, a joy, a happiness, and a pleasure to myself.
Temper is a proof whether the love of Christ is filling the heart or not.
God has prepared for us a wonderful redemption in Christ, and He longs to make something supernatural of us.
Love one another as I have loved you” (John 13:34).
It is in our daily life and conduct that the
fruit of the Spirit is love. From that comes all the graces and virtues in which love is manifested—joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness—no sharpness or hardness in your tone, no un...
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See Galatians 5:22-23 and Col. 3:14
the gentler, the most tender virtues are especially connected with dependence on the Holy Spirit.
The fruit of the Spirit is love.
And what is the reason that God’s Holy Spirit cannot come in power?
I can dip a little water into a small vessel, but if a vessel is to be full, it must be unbroken.
In our brokeness and surrender, Jesus reveals truth to our heart and we gain healing and wholness in our being. Then we can be a vessel overflowing with God's love and power!
the one thing above everything that grieves God’s Spirit is this lack of love.
Our doctrines, our creeds, have been more important than love.
And so, through the ages, the very dearest truths of God have become mountains that have separated us.
If my vow—absolute surrender to God—was sincere, then it must mean absolute surrender to the divine love to fill me.
ask God to baptize you with the Spirit of love, and love will find its way. Love is a fire that will burn through every difficulty.
that love gave access to the love of Jesus.
We have not learned to wait upon Him enough, and so we should make a solemn declaration before God: Oh God, we want to wait more for You to show us Your will.
let our first desire be to have the will of God revealed.
