Thank God for His Grace and Victory Part 8

If you recall last time we look at:

Thank God for the pressure of His Hand – Part 7

"Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ." 2 Corinthians 2:14

      "The viewpoint of a worker for God must not be as near the highest as he can get, it must be the highest. Be careful to maintain strenuously God’s point of view, it has to be done every day, bit by bit; don’t think on the finite. No outside power can touch the viewpoint. The viewpoint to maintain is that we are here for one purpose only, to be captives in the train of Christ’s triumphs. We are not in God’s showroom, we are here to exhibit one thing—the absolute captivity of our lives to Jesus Christ.....

      "Paul’s secret joy was that God took him, a red-handed rebel against Jesus Christ, and made him a captive, and now that is all he is here for. Paul’s joy was to be a captive of the Lord, he had no other interest in heaven or on earth. ...  The Victor ought to have got us so completely that it is His victory all the time, and we are more than conquerors through Him. 'For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ.'"

Next time we will Examine the Last Part of this Series:

Thank God for enabling us to Live for Him

Thank God for the Pressure of His Hand – Part 7

If you recall last time we look at:

Thank God for our Sanctification Part 6

"Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me." Matthew 11:29.

       “'Whom the Lord loves, He chastens.' How petty our complaining is! Our Lord begins to bring us into the place where we can have communion with Him, and we groan and say—‘Oh Lord, let me be like other people!’ Jesus is asking us to take one end of the yoke—‘My yoke is easy, get alongside Me and we will pull together.’

      "Are you identified with the Lord Jesus like that? If so, you will thank God for the pressure of His hand. “To them that have no might He increase strength?” God comes and takes us out of our sentimentality and our complaining turns into a psalm of praise. The only way to know the strength of God is to take the yoke of Jesus upon us and learn of Him. 'The joy of the Lord is your strength.'

      "Where do the saints get their joy from? If we did not know some saints, we would say— ‘Oh, he, or she, has nothing to bear.’ Lift the veil. The fact that the peace and the light and the joy of God are there is proof that the burden is there too. The burden God places squeezes the grapes and out comes the wine; most of us see the wine only. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit, it is an inner unconquerableness. If you have the whine in you, kick it out...."

     Let me ask you again! – Do you feel it? Do you feel the pressure of the Lord’s Hand on You?

Next time we will examine:

Thank God for His Grace and Victory Part 8

Thank God For Our Sanctification! Part 6

If you recall last time we looked at:

Thank God for working into us the Nature of Jesus – Part 5

"This is the will of God, even your sanctification." 1 Thessalonians 4:3

      "It is not a question of whether God is willing to sanctify me; is it my will? Am I willing to let God do in me all that has been made possible by the Atonement? Am I willing to let Jesus be made sanctification to me, and to let the life of Jesus be manifested in my mortal flesh? Beware of saying—‘Oh, I am longing to be sanctified.’ You are not, stop longing and make it a matter of transaction— 'Nothing in my hands I bring.' Receive Jesus Christ to be made sanctification to you in implicit faith, and the great marvel of the Atonement will be made real in you. ...

      "My attitude as a saved and sanctified soul is that of profound humble holiness (there is no such thing as proud holiness), holiness based on agonizing repentance and a sense of unspeakable shame and degradation; and also on the amazing realization that the love of God commended itself to me.... No wonder Paul says nothing is 'able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'

     "Sanctification makes me one with Jesus Christ, and in Him one with God and it is done only through the superb Atonement of Christ. Never put the effect as the cause. The effect in me is obedience and service and prayer, and is the outcome of speechless thanks and adoration for the marvelous sanctification wrought out in me because of the Atonement."

Next time we will examine:

Thank God for the Pressure of His Hand – Part 7