Weekly Pursuit – Week 3 of May
Verses:
Acts 4:31 “And when they had so besought,…they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.”
Excerpts:
We should not use anything other than prayer, the Spirit, and the Word to carry on the gospel or the church life. Otherwise, we should be prepared for some side effects like dissension, which will damage the real one accord. It may seem very awkward to take the genuine way. It takes time and patience; we have to labor and toil. Let us toil in the Word, labor in prayer, and be diligent in dealing with the Holy Spirit. This is worthwhile. We have to spend much time to get into the Word; we have to get ourselves saturated, constituted, and even soaked with the holy Word. We must also get ourselves constituted with our contact with the Lord. We have to contact Him day by day and hour after hour; then we will be the right person.
When you pray, do not be occupied with your work or with other things. Do not even be occupied with gospel preaching. Leave yourself open to the Lord. Let Him come in for at least ten minutes to speak to you, to enlighten you, to point out to you all your shortcomings, sinfulness, evil, and impure thoughts. Ask Him to bring your entire being into the light for a full and utter exposure of your real condition. This kind of prayer would make you prevailing. As a purified and chastised person, whatever comes out of your mouth will be powerful. This will be the case because through your prayer you have been saturated by the cleansing One. Prayer makes your person. Such a person of prayer will be full of the Spirit within and without. (One Accord for the Lord’s Move, ch. 2)
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