ADVANCE IS ALWAYS CONNECTED WITH EXERCISE
ADVANCE IS ALWAYS CONNECTED WITH EXERCISE
It is wonderful how the sunshine of His favour affects the heart after a time of pressure. It is sun after rain, and you may remark that the sun is sure to follow the rain. Many have come into fellowship from imitation. I am sure they are in the right place, but they must fall away if they do not learn to be there in faith. There is no power otherwise.
———— has had many trials. My kind love to her with this text, “My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me” (Psalm 63: 8) ... It is always connected with exercise that we advance. When I am in the Lord’s presence I am beside myself. The more I know of this, the more I am ready to be practically free from myself when there is an opportunity for myself. There is no opportunity for my will in His presence; the more I am in the power of this, the more I like to be free of self when it has an opportunity, and this is true sanctification. We must begin inside; legality is paring away the flesh — concision. Make the tree good, and the fruit shall be good. No one can be outside with man beyond what he is inside with God. The power that carries you over Jordan is the self-same power, and in the same measure too, which makes you [p. 188] superior to all opposition here. Elisha crosses Jordan before he enters on service. Paul, I apprehend, was in the third heaven before he went to Jerusalem or saw Peter.... It is a favour to be able to remember one another to the Lord. It suits His heart and interest in us. May your hearts rejoice in the Lord ever more, and may all blessings abound to you.