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Post by kencoolidge on Aug 17, 2014 7:59:45 GMT -5
That night I realized anew that I was demanding something of the people which I was not giving to God. I was simply asking submission – and that was what God was asking of me. The circumstance was different, but the issue was the same: submission. Is it not strange how we can know certain principles, and yet – if we do not live in that intimate fellowship of light they will slip from our attention? I had often spoken from the following verse, but now its meaning flooded with new significance. … Being in readiness to punish every (insubordinate for his) disobedience, when your own submission and obedience are fully secured and complete. (2 Cor. 10:6, A.N.T.) How appropriate this verse was to my need. I saw how the spirit of blindness and deception could legally hold sway over these lives. I could expect no invasion by the Holy Spirit to cast down false reasonings or proud and lofty things that set themselves against God until my obedience was fulfilled. I saw more clearly than I had ever seen that this is not a battle in which our weapons are mere sermons, illustrations or clever devices for uncovering wrong, but the Holy Spirit’s sharp edge is our only weapon for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds (2 Cor. 10:5). Thus we are the first stronghold that must be under full submission. Now No Longer Death – but Life Immediately my
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