GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 1

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS,  YOUR….. EARS ARE ATTENTIVE TO MY CRY –Ps 34:15

JESUS, YOU……..MAKE THE FOLLOWING TRANSFORMATIONS FOR ME:

WILDERNESS TO PASTURE

DESERT TO SPRINGS

PERISHABLE TO IMPERISHABLE

WEAKNESS TO POWER

HUMILIATION TO GLORY

POVERTY TO RICHES

MORTALITY TO IMMORTALITY

VILE BODY TO RESPLENDENT BODY

MOURNING INTO JOY

SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS TO GARMENT OF PRAISE

BEAUTY FOR ASHES

(Isaiah 61:3 plus various verses throughout the Word)

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

John 1:4

“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.”

We are in the book, Abide in Christ by Andrew Murray, and the chapter entitled:  “Through the Holy Spirit.”

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus;  it is His work, not only to breathe, but ever to foster and strengthen, and so to perfect the new life within.  Just in proportion as the believer yields himself in simple trust to the unseen but most certain law of the Spirit of life working within him, his faith will pass into knowledge.  It will be rewarded by the Spirit’s light revealing in the Word what has already been wrought by the Spirit’s power in the life.

Apply this now to the promise of the Spirit’s teaching us to abide in Christ.  The Holy Spirit is indeed the mighty power of God.  He comes to us from the heart of Christ, the bearer of Christ’s life, the Revealer and Communicator of Christ Himself within us.  In the expression, the “fellowship of the Spirit” (Philippians  2:1), we are taught what His highest work is.  He is the bond of fellowship between the Father and the Son; by Him they are one.  He is the bond of fellowship between all believers; by Him they are also one.   Above all, He is the bond of fellowship between Christ and believers;  He is the life sap through which Vine and branch grow into real and living oneness.  By Him we are one.

We can be assured that if we do but believe in his presence and working, if we do but watch not to grieve Him, because we know that He is in us, if we wait and pray to be filled with Him, He will teach us how to abide.  First guiding our will to a wholehearted cleaving to Christ, then quickening our faith into ever larger confidence and expectation, then breathing into our hearts a peace and joy that pass understanding.  (Philippians 4:7).  He teaches us to abide, we scarcely know how. 

Then coming through the heart and life into understanding, He makes us know the truth – not as mere thought truth, but as the truth that is in Christ Jesus, the reflection into the mind of the light of what He has already made a reality in the life.  “The life was the light of men.” (John 1:4).

In view of such teaching, it is clear how, if we would have the Spirit to guide us into the abiding life, our first need is quiet, restful faith.  Amid all the questions and difficulties that may come up in connection with our striving to abide in Christ, amid all the longing we may sometimes feel to have a Christian of experience to aid us, amid the frequent painful consciousness of failure, of ignorance, of helplessness – do let us hold fast the blessed confidence:  we have the unction of the Holy One to teach us to abide in him (1 John 2:20).  “the anointing which you have received of Him abides in you….even as it has taught you, you shall abide in Him.”  Make this teaching of His in connection with the abiding a matter of special exercise of faith.

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