Let us Praise and Thank God that His Son does NOT come into the world to be our example for us to imitate until we are gradually and finally saved.
No, no!
He Sent His Son to this earth to Die For us sinners, to Accomplish Salvation For us.
God does NOT require anything from us, SINCE He Has Done All.
GALATIANS 4.19
my little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ may be formed in you,
2 CORINTHIANS 3.18
and we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the LORD in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
1 JOHN 3.2
Beloved, now, we are children of God, and it was not yet revealed what we will be. We have known that if He may have appeared, we will be like Him, because we will see Him as He is;
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2 CORINTHIANS 11.3
and I fear, lest, as the serpent deceived Eve in his subtlety, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ;
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JOHN 15.11
these things I have spoken to you, that My joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.
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MATTHEW 20.28
even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give His life [as] a ransom for many.”
The thing may be in Full Accordance with His Will, but the Asking or the Spirit of the one who Asks may not; therefore, we are not heard.
Just as the root of all sin is self and self-seeking, so there is nothing in our more Spiritual Desires that so effectually hinders God’s Answering as Praying for our own pleasure or glory.
Prayer, to have Power and to Prevail, must Ask for the Glory of God.
And one can only Pray This Way when he is Living for the Glory of God.
We should Accuse our enemy before God Incessantly, since Satan accuses the Brethren before our God day and night.
If he accuses us day and night, should we not also Accuse him day and night.
What is the Cross?
It is this, that when your heart is Touched By God you Offer yourself into God’s Hand in Order that His Life May Operate In you.
And as It Operates, there is an Element which Puts you to Death.
This Effect of Death Takes Away from you all which is undesired – that which rebels against God, that which is contrary to Life, and that which is contradictory to the Holy Spirit.
Meanwhile, there is also a Living Element, which Causes you to Live.
The Effect of This Life is to Enable you to Live Out the Riches of the Godhead, and So Filling you with Light, Joy and Peace.
For God Will Have a man to Defeat His enemy.
So the Lord Jesus Now Comes Forth.
Trust God as the Omnipotent One.
Never Pray without Adoring His Omnipotence, and say,
Mighty God, I Claim Thine Almightiness.
And the Answer to Prayer Will Come.
You will Become Strong in Faith, Giving Glory to God
BECAUSE you Account Him Who Has Promised Able to Perform.
The things which are impossible with men are Possible with God.
All round about you there is a world of sin and sorrow, and the devil is there.
BUT REMEMBER, Christ is On the Throne, Christ is Stronger, Christ Has Conquered, and Christ Will Conquer.
