GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 2

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU….WERE PIERCED FOR MY TRANSGRESSIONS

JESUS, YOU….WERE DESPISED AND REJECTED BY MEN

JESUS, YOU,…..WERE A MAN OF SORROW AND ACQUAINED WITH GRIEF

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

Philippians 2:1-2

“Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one purpose.”

Today we finish the chapter entitled, “Through the Holy Spirit” in Andrew Murray’s classic book, “Abide in Christ.”

Believe that, as surely as you have part in Christ, (meaning, if you have legitimately made Him your personal Lord and Savior—knowing that your only path to heaven is because of His death and resurrection, and that your good works, prayers,  or rituals cannot save you)  you have His Spirit too.  Believe that He will do His work with power, if only you do not hinder Him.  Believe that He is working, even when you cannot discern it.  Believe that He will work mightily if you ask this from the Father.  It is impossible to live the life of full abiding without being full of the Holy Spirit; believe that the fullness of the Spirit is indeed your daily portion.  Be sure to take time in prayer, to dwell at the footstool of the throne of God and the Lamb, where flows the river of the water of life. (Revelation 22:1:

 “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life—water as clear as crystal—pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,”

It is there, and only there, that you can be filled with the Spirit.  Cultivate carefully  the habit of daily, yes, continually honoring Him by the quiet, restful confidence that He is doing His work within you.  Let faith in His indwelling (which comes with the decision to make Jesus everything to you) make you jealous of whatever could grieve Him:  the spirit of the world or the acting of self and the flesh grieve Him.  Let that faith seek its nourishment in the Word and all it says of the Spirit, His power, His comfort,  and His work.  Above all, let that faith in the Spirit’s indwelling lead you especially to look  to Jesus; as we have received the anointing of Him, it comes in ever stronger flow from Him as we are occupied with Him alone.  Christ is the Anointed One.  As we look up to Him, the holy anointing comes, “The precious anointment upon the head (of Aaron)…that went down to the skirts of his garments.” (Psalm 133:2).  It is faith in Jesus that brings the anointing; the anointing leads to Jesus and to the abiding in Him alone.

Believer, abide in Christ, in the power of the Spirit.  What do you think:  should the abiding be a fear or a burden?  Surely not!  Oh, if we only knew the graciousness of our Holy Comforter and the blessedness of wholly yielding ourselves to His leading, we would indeed experience the divine comfort of having such a teacher to secure our abiding in Christ.  The Holy Spirit was given for this one purpose – that the glorious redemption and life in Christ might, with divine power, be conveyed and communicated to us.

We have the Holy Spirit to make the living Christ, in all His saving power, and in the completeness of His victory over sin, ever present within us.  It is this that constitutes Him the comforter; with Him we need never mourn an absent Christ.  Let us, as often as we read, or meditate, or pray in connection with this abiding in Christ, reckon upon it as a settled thing that we have the Spirit of God Himself within us, teaching, and guiding, and working.  Let us rejoice in the confidence that we must succeed in our legitimate desires, because the Holy Spirit is working all the while with secret but divine power in the soul that does not hinder Him by its unbelief.

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