Holy Spirit

November 11, 2012

We might as well pray for God to invade and conquer us, for until he does, we remain in peril from a thousand foes.  We bear within us the seeds of our own disintegration.  Our moral imprudence puts us always in danger of accidental or reckless self-destruction. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls.  Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life.  Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.  God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.  Then He invades our natures with that ancient and eternal life which is from the beginning.  So he conquers us and by that benign conquest saves us for himself.

 – AW Tozer –

November 10, 2012

Your new birth puts God into action in you.  It lets all of God loose, clothed with the redeemed humanity of your own flesh and blood as a forgiven sinner, so that at last you become a normal human being as Jesus was.

– Ian Thomas –
The Indwelling Life, p26

November 9, 2012

The Cross in actual history is the point where the real Presence of God enters human history; and the point where the real Presence of God enters human life is the moment of absolute surrender, not of religious sentiment.  The first step to sacramental discipleship is the crowning of Jesus as Lord.

– Oswald Chambers –

October 30, 2012

The only answer to hell fire is Holy Spirit fire.

– Leonard Ravenhill –

September 27, 2012

If there is any trouble in your heart, if you are in darkness, or in the power of sin, I bring to you the Son of God, with the promise that He will come in and take charge.

– Andrew Murray –
from his book Master’s Indwelling 

September 24, 2012

Think what it is we really posses, if Christ is in us . . . We have Him, in whom all fullness of life actually dwells, in whom infinite resources are stored up for our use. Everything needed for continual growth, for perpetual freshness, and for abundant fruitfulness are found in Him. All power, all grace, all purity, and all fullness, absolutely everything to make all grace abound toward us, in us, and through us, are stored up in Him who verily dwells within us.

– Evan Hopkins –