How To Develop The Recreated Spirit The Love Walk If we could learn to walk in love and make it the business of our lives, we would solve many problems of human relationship which we thought were impossible. Jesus lived in love. He lived in the realm of love. He spoke love. His words were love-filled. His acts and deeds grew out of love. He could not help healing the sick. Love drove Him. He could not help feeding the multitudes. Love compelled Him. If we could have our spirits developed in love like that, then we could live like the Master; we could maintain a real beautiful fellowship with the Father, with the Word, and with one another. John 14:16-17, Jesus promised He would send a comforter, the Holy Spirit. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall he in you. This Comforter whom He calls the Spirit of truth, or reality, is to guide us into all truth or reality. He is to take the things of Jesus and the Father and unveil them to us. That is what our hearts are craving. He is not going to wide us into Sense Knowledge, but into Revelation Knowledge. He is going to take those wonderful truths of the Pauline Revelation and make them a reality to us. In order to do this, it will he necessary that we have quiet hours, a little while each day set apart for meditation. Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. That was for Israel under the Law, under the First Covenant. Under the New Covenant, we are to let the Word of Christ dwell in us richly; we are to abide in the Word and the Word is to abide in us. This will lead us into the prayer life, into prayer conquests. Phil. 4:6-7 offers another suggestion. In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. In nothing are we to allow anxiety to govern us; but in everything by prayer and supplication, along with thanksgiving, make our requests known to the Father. Then we leave them there, and He declares that His peace will come (like a garrison of soldiers into a turbulent country) and quiet us. In the 8th verse, He tells us the things we are to think about. Read it over carefully. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. We cannot feed on scandal, on nonsense, on stories that are unseemly, and expect to develop in grace. The Spirit will not help us to do that. There must be times when we can sit quietly with the Lord and the Word, and meditate upon it until the Word absorbs us, and we absorb the Word; until the Word is built into our mental processes, as well as our spirit lives, until it absolutely governs our thinking. Do you see what that implies? The renewing of our minds. The average believers mind is not renewed. Romans 12:2 I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God which is your spiritual worship. And be not fashioned according to this age: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. How is that transformation going to take place? By the renewing of our minds. How does that come? By meditation in the Word. By, practicing the Word. Col. 3.10 “And have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him. Our minds are renewed after the image of Him that created us. That means the Jesus image is going to be reproduced in us, until after a while it will be no more we that live, but Christ living in us. Or, as Paul gives us in Gal. 4:19, until Christ be formed in Sort. It is possible to build the very Jesus life into us with the Word. The Word never becomes a part of our lives until we act it. Share your heart life with Him as you would with a lover, until you cry out, It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me. until the Vine Life becomes consciously your life. Eph. 3:19-21 And to know the Jove of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God. Gods fulness takes us over, dominates us. His fulness of love, of grace, of wisdom, of healing and ability, has displaced all the weaknesses and failures that exist in our lives. Jesus has come on the scene to take over our lives. He is able to do Exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think. He does it according to the ability, His ability, that is at world within us. The Hidden Man
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