A Christian who wishes to be Delivered from the power of sin must not make provision for the flesh.
He must be watchful.
He must be more disappointed in himself and place More Reliance on the Holy Spirit.
To man this is impossible, but to God all things are possible.
It is not only By Faith that we First Come to Christ we are United to Him,
But that it is By Faith that we are to be Rooted and Established in our Union with Christ.
Abiding in Jesus can only be By Faith.
Ask whatever you wish.
It cannot be otherwise.
Christ has Full Possession of them.
Christ Dwells in their love, their will, their life.
Not only has their will been Given Up but Christ has Entered it.
There He Dwells and Breathes into it His Spirit.
He whom the Father Always Hears, Prays Through them.
What they Ask Will Be Done for them.
Only a Specific Knowledge of Him will Constitute a Specific Ministry in Serving the Body of Christ.
Having Learned what others have not Learned, you Receive from the Lord a Specific Lesson, and With This Specific Knowledge of Him you may Serve.
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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COLOSSIANS2.6-7
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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LUKE 10.41-42
And Jesus answering said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and disquieted about many things, but of one thing there is need, and Mary chose the good part; that will not be taken away from her.”
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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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ROMANS 12.6
And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us:
What is needed in order to Be Filled with the Spirit?
By special relation from God.
If I am a housekeeper, I am busy from morning till night doing mundane tasks.
If I am a laborer in a factory, I hear the grinding sound of machines from dawn to dusk.
If I am an office worker, all I see the whole day are black ink on white papers.
If I am a house servant, what I do all day long is cleaning tables, sweeping floors and cooking meals.
How meaningless these things are!
How good it would be if I could go out and do the Lord’s work!
Many women consider being a wife who must take care of children and carry out endless household chores as highly uninteresting work.
How exciting if she be given freedom to go here and there to talk about spiritual things, things of the Lord.
Yet that is but the attraction of the flesh; it is NOT spiritual at all; it is wholly catering to self-delight.
Even after we take the Action and Maintain the Attitude of Reckoning our old man to be dead, the sinful nature in us does NOT henceforth become annihilated and disappear.
For as long as we live in this mortal body, the sinful natural will coexist with us.
To say that our sinful nature can be annihilated in this life is a great heresy.
We can Deliver the old man to Death by the Power of the Cross and render it powerless and withered as Though Dead, but we cannot annihilate it.
Whenever we are careless and unwatchful, whenever we do not Stand On the Death Ground of Calvary, our old man will renew its activities and resume its office.
Satan is always looking for an opportunity to reactive the old man.
And as soon as there is a loophole, the old man will recover its original position.
