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God does not ask you to give the perfect surrender in your strength, or by the power
of your will; God is willing to work it in you. Do we not read: "It is God that worketh
in us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure"
(Philippians 2:13).
...learn to believe...
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Abraham... God raised him up and prepared him as an instrument for His glory. Did
not God say to Pharaoh: "For this cause
have I raised thee up, for to show in thee My power"
(Exodus 9:16)?
And if God said that of him, will not God say it far more of every child of His?
God comes and offers to work this... He desires to help you to get hold of Him entirely.
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Look at the Lord Jesus Christ in Gethsemane. We read that He, "through the eternal
Spirit," offered Himself a sacrifice unto
God. The Almighty Spirit of God was enabling Him to do it. ...And when you do yield
yourself in absolute surrender, let it be in the faith that God does now accept of
it. That is the great point, and that is what we so often miss... be occupied with
God... look up to God... remember there is a God present that takes note of it, and
writes it down in His book...
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...there is a God present who at that very moment takes possession of you. You may
not feel it... but God takes possession if you will trust Him. When God has begun
the work of absolute surrender in you, and when God has accepted your surrender,
then God holds Himself bound to care for it and to keep it. Will you believe that?
In this matter of surrender there are two: God and I-- I a worm, God the everlasting
and omnipotent Jehovah. Worm, will you be afraid to trust yourself to this mighty
God now? God is willing. Do you not believe that He can keep you continually, day
by day, and moment by moment? ("Sing unto
the Lord, bless His name; shew forth His salvation from day to day" -- Psalm 96:2.)
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And why have you not experienced it? Because you have not trusted God for it... believe
that God will maintain it. ...that aged saint who, on his ninetieth birthday... --I
mean George Muller. What did he say he believed to be the secret of his happiness,
and of all the blessing which God had given him? ...two reason. The one was that
he had been enabled by grace to maintain a good conscience before God day by day;
the other was, that he was a lover of God's Word. ...Such a life has two sides--
on the one side, absolute surrender to work what God wants you to do; on the other
side, to let God work what He wants to do.
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Say: "Lord God, not a word upon my tongue but for Thy glory, not a movement
of my temper but for Thy glory, not an affection of love or hate in my heart but
for Thy glory, and according to Thy blessed will."
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...separate from the world; we are called to come out from the world that hates God.
Come out for God... given up... by divine grace... acknowledge that you have grieved
the Holy Spirit by your self-will, self-confidence, and self-effort. Bow humbly before
Him in the confession of that, and ask him to break the heart and to bring you into
the dust before Him. Then, as you bow before Him, just accept God's teaching that
in your flesh "there
dwelleth no good thing," and that nothing
will help you except another life which must come in. You must deny self once for
all. Denying...(next page)
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...self must every moment be the power of your life, and then Christ will come in
and take possession of you, ...bow our knees to the Father to ask that He would strengthen
us with all might by the Spirit in the inner man, and that He would fill us with
His mighty power. And as the Spirit reveals Christ to us, Christ comes to live in
our hearts forever, and the self-life is cast out. ...bow before God in humility
...confess before Him the state of the whole Church, ...Oh, we want to confess the
sins of God's people around us, and to...(next
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...humble ourselves. ...There is deliverance. ...death was the path to glory for
Christ... --death to self, and fellowship with Christ. ...and...(next page)
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...then the Holy Spirit will bring the whole Christ-- Christ crucified and risen
and living in glory-- into your heart.
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