Deny Self
Christ Said Deny self!
God is longing to double His Blessing, to Give Tenfold Blessing Through us.
But there is something hindering Him, and that something is the self life.
Christ Said Deny self!
God is longing to double His Blessing, to Give Tenfold Blessing Through us.
But there is something hindering Him, and that something is the self life.
JAMES 1.2-8
Count [it] all joy, my brothers, when you may fall into manifold temptations, knowing that the proof of your faith works endurance, and let the endurance have a perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all generously, and not reproaching, and it will be given to him; but let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for he who is doubting has been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed; for do not let that man suppose that he will receive anything from the LORD—a soul-split man [is] unstable in all his ways
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MARK 11.25
And whenever you may stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, that your Father who is in the heavens may also forgive you your trespasses;
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2 COR 1.20-22
for as many as [are] promises of God, in Him [are] the Yes, and in Him the Amen, for glory to God through us; and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and anointed us, [is] God, who also sealed us, and gave the deposit of the Spirit in our hearts.
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ISAIAH 49.4
And I said, “I labored in vain, || I consumed my power for emptiness and vanity, || But my judgment [is] with YHWH, || And my wage with my God.”
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MATTHEW 21.13
and He says to them, “It has been written: My house will be called a house of prayer;
HEB 3.6
but Christ, as a Son over His house, whose house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope to the end.
It is when the individual workers are Blessed that the Work will Prosper and that the Body will be in Health and Strength.
Only one who has had Enteral Life is able to Deny himself, Take Up the Cross, and Follow the Lord.
For a sinner who has not yet Possessed Eternal Life, what he needs to do is not to try to Follow the Lord but to Believe in the Lord.
Prayer is a kind of Travail in Spiritual Birth, which is an Entering Into Fellowship with the Sufferings of Christ, with the Heart of the Father, and with the Groanings of the Holy Spirit – until the Day of Glory.
We can only be Made Righteous by being Cleansed Through the Blood.
God offers us This Way and no other.
Not only our sins, but our behavior also must be Cleansed.
But Thus Cleansed, we shall find ourselves Arrayed in Heavenly Whiteness.
The Holy Spirit is the Remembrancer, the Spirit of Recollection, the memory of the New Man.
Our Daily Life! in the world is the Test of our Relationship with God in Prayer.
My Prayer is measured not according to what I try to be when I am Praying but by what I am when I am not Praying.