The Great Work of the Ministry

ought to be to lead people the moment they find Christ to the Holy Spirit. Why? Because they cannot get acquainted with the indwelling Christ except as the Holy Spirit reveals Him. Beloved ministers, lead your people on to the Holy Ghost; but you cannot do it unless He has taken the place in your own heart and life that He ought to occupy.

I said our first step must be conviction and confession, and our second step faith. Now, our third step must be, surrender to the Holy Spirit and to Christ who baptizes with the Holy Spirit, and who said, “He that believeth in Me, out of him shall flow rivers of living water,” Let us surrender ourselves in personal faith to Christ Jesus, and let us say, I am given up to the Holy Ghost for Him to reside in my heart; I am going to walk in the Spirit, and by the grace of God to set an example to my people of a life lived in the power of the Holy Spirit; I am going, by the grace of God, to give myself up to the Holy Spirit for Him to teach me. No man knoweth the things of God save the Spirit of God.’’ A man’s mind can catch on to a great deal of the Bible and take it in, but no man knows in his heart the things of God except by the Spirit of God. Let us each say, then, I am going to be taught by the Spirit to live in great dependence and helplessness and weakness and fear, day by day, and let God’s Spirit possess me; I am going to give myself up to the Holy Spirit in the expectation that He will take possession of me, and give me new power, the power of His almighty Spirit, in my work and ministry.

You have listened to a feeble unworthy child of God. I thank you for having listened and given me an opportunity of speaking. May God use me to take you by the hand, and may we go together to our work giving expression and utterance to these simple thoughts of confession and faith and surrender.

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