We need to Realize that in our Relationship to God, who has Created and Redeemed us, our First Posture ought to be that of Subjection.
The Surrender to His Supremacy, His Glory, His Will, His Pleasure, ought to be the First and Uppermost thought in our mind.
From the Standpoint of God’s Choice of us, we are Taken Out Of the world; but from the Standpoint of our New Life, we are NOT of the world at all, but From Above.
As the People of God, Heaven is not only our Destiny, but our Place of Origin.
This is an Amazing Thing, that in you and me there is an element that is Essentially Other-Worldly.
So Other-Worldly is it that no matter how this world may progress, that element in us can NEVER become like it.
This Life We Have as God’s Gift has NO correspondence with the world, but is in Perfect Correspondence With Heaven.
O let us be Content to Possess Christ, to Dwell in Him, to Make Him our Life, and only in a Deeper Searching into Him, to Search and Find the Knowledge we desire.
Such Knowledge is Life Indeed.
He Desires us to Know His Whole Plan and to be Working With Him Toward a Clear Purpose and Plan.
You are the branch, Jesus said, and NOT that you shall become a branch.
Already a branch joined to the Tree.
Revelation of God! Real Faith!
On the day I Believed, Victory Did Come!
I am the most foolish person in the entire world.
The Victorious Life which I Seek is Actually Something I Have Already Possessed.
JOHN 15.16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever you may ask of the Father in My Name, He may give you.
JAMES 5.16
very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
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JOHN 17.14
I have given Your word to them, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
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1 CORINTHIANS 1.30
but out of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom,
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ROMANS 8.11
and if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus out of the dead dwells in you, He who raised up the Christ out of the dead will also quicken your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.
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ACTS 2.4
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit,
EPHESIANS 5.18
but be filled in the Spirit,
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JOHN 15.5
I AM the vine, you the branches; he who is remaining in Me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit, because apart from Me you are not able to do anything;
