Indwelling Life of Christ

Vital Union with Christ – JC Ryle

We cannot have flowers without roots, or fruit without trees. We cannot have the fruit of the Spirit without vital union with Christ, and a new creation within.

– JC Ryle –
from Expository Thoughts on the Gospels,1856

Only God can make you godly – Ian Thomas

The moment you come to realize that only God can make a man godly, you are left with no option but to find God, and to know God, and to let God be God in and through you.

– Ian Thomas –

Prayer yields more than work – Andrew Murray

Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and its success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work, as God’s messengers, be intercession; in it, we secure the presence and power of God to go with us.

– Andrew Murray –
from The Ministry of Intercession

Victory over all circumstances – Eric Liddell

Victory over all the circumstances of life comes not by might, nor by power, but by a practical confidence in God and by allowing His Spirit to dwell in our hearts and control our actions and emotions. Learn in the days of ease and comfort, to think in terms of the prayer that follows, so that when the days of hardship come you will be fully prepared and equipped to meet them.

– Eric Liddell –

Clear the Decks – Ian Thomas

Christ did not die simply that you might be saved from a bad conscience, or even to remove the stain of past failure, but to “clear the decks” for divine action.

– Ian Thomas –

Do you live in God’s power? – Ian Thomas

There are those who have a life they never live. They have come to Christ and thanked Him only for what He did, but do not live in the power of who He is.

– Ian Thomas –

Indwelling Holy Spirit – Henri Nouwen

Without Pentecost the Christ-event—the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus—remains imprisoned in history as something to remember, think about and reflect on. The Spirit of Jesus comes to dwell within us, so that we can become living Christs [Christians] here and now.

– Henri Nouwen –