Take Up His Cross and Follow Me!
This is even deeper than denying the self.
Taking Up the Cross is Obeying God.
To Accept whatever God Has Decided for the person and to be Willing to Suffer According to the Will of God.
By Denying self and Taking Up the Cross we may Truly Follow the Lord.
Deny self. Deny Me.
It is either of the two.
There is no choice for us; we must either Deny self or Deny Christ.
There are two great powers fighting each other – the self-nature in the power of sin and Christ in the Power of God.
Either of these must rule within us.
JOHN 6.28-29
Therefore they said to Him, “What may we do that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you may believe in Him whom He sent.”
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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;
MATTHEW 18.35
so also My heavenly Father will do to you, if you may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.”
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2 CORINTHIANS 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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MATTHEW 5.39
but I say to you not to resist the evil, but whoever will slap you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other;
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HEBREWS 7.25
from where also He is able to save to the very end, those coming through Him to God—ever living to make intercession for them.
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JOHN 3.16
for God so loved the world that He gave the only begotten Son, that everyone who is believing in Him may not perish, but may have continuous life.
Deliverance! from self-life! from the flesh! from the power of sin! from our very nature!
Deny Himself! disregarding one’s self or renouncing one’s privileges.
Setting Aside of the self in Seeking the Mind of God, so that in all things he may NOT follow his own mind nor be self-centered.
Ask and Keep On Asking! for the Lord Delights in people Asking Him.
If the motive of our Asking is Pure, there is nothing better.
Who Watches Over Every hindrance and danger, Who Supplies Every needed aid!
What Peace and Rest, Fully and Finally to Give Up our Abiding Into the Care of God, and never have a wish or thought, never to offer a Prayer or engage in an exercise connected with it, without First Having the Glad Remembrance that what we do is only the Manifestation of What God is Doing in us!
Have Faith From God!
And all—as much as you may ask in the prayer, believing, you will receive.
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;
