These Disciples were men who had been Led to Despair of themselves.
At the beginning of their three years of Instruction, they had to Give Up all they possessed; but it was only at the end of that time that they began to Give Up themselves.
When a Believer Receives Deeper Knowledge of the wretchedness of self, he is then Willing to Deliver it to Death.
What is the Way to the Death of self?
It is none other than the Cross.
Galatians 2.20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me; and that which I now live in the flesh—I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me;
The Aim of True Prayer Touches on not just personal gain but more importantly on the Glory of God and the loss of the enemy.
I AM the True Vine!
He Who Offers us the Privilege of an Actual Union with Himself is the Great I AM, the Almighty God, who Upholds all things By the Word of His Power.
And This Almighty God Reveals Himself as our Perfect Saviour, even to the unimaginable extent of Seeking to Renew our fallen natures By Grafting them Into His Own Divine Nature.
You Say, it Will Be Done!
You Who Are the Amen,
The Faithful and True Witness.
My Joyful Confidence!
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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COLOSSIANS 2.6-7
as, then, you received Christ Jesus the LORD, walk in Him, being rooted and built up in Him, and confirmed in the faith, as you were taught—abounding in it in thanksgiving.
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2 TIMOTHY 3.16-17
Every Writing [is] God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction that [is] in righteousness, that the man of God may be fitted—having been completed for every good work.
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JOHN 15.7
if you may remain in Me, and My sayings may remain in you, whatever you may wish you will ask, and it will be done to you.
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EPHESIANS 4.17-19
This, then, I say, and I testify in the LORD: you are no longer to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, who, having ceased to feel, gave themselves up to the licentiousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;
