#691 Make Room for the Blessing! Part 2
I had thought of the MAKING ROOM for His blessing mostly in terms of letting go of our personal agenda, our personal perceptions and our busyness… But a Dear Sister shared Psalm 119:32 (which speaks of enlargement of heart see Part 3) and some quotes, and my view was ENLARGED! To make room we must empty ourselves through His sanctifying power, but also have our hearts be enlarged and grow spiritually bigger through His sanctifying power.
“The source of our joy is an ocean… So immeasurable and inexhaustible is the source of our delight, that we need a heart job done on us. We need heart enlargement to even begin to explore the height and the depth and the length and the breath.” (Br. Donald Holliday The Beauty of True Holiness)
“.....the capacity of our hearts was small: as they grow, as they enlarge, the sanctification must keep pace, filling every part: thus the Apostle exhorts, "Be ye filled with the Spirit".....The provision made for this enlargement of our hearts is expressed in the words of our Redeemer's prayer for us, "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy Word is truth." `John 17:17` F133
“While the Lord is now pouring out his Spirit upon his servants and handmaidens, it is for them to see that they are emptied vessels--empty that he may fill them--enlarged more and more that they may be more and more filled with the Spirit of God.” R3431
Thank you Sister Betty for these quotes!
The power of the holy spirit is certainly an ENLARGING power, resurrecting our Lord Jesus as a perfect human being begotten of the spirit to immortality! That power that resurrected Jesus from the human plane to immortality is at work in our hearts! “I thank God continually for you and I never give up praying for you; and this is my prayer. That God, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ and the all-glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and the insight to KNOW MORE OF HIM: that you may receive THAT INNER ILLUMINATION OF THE SPIRIT which will make you realize HOW GREAT is the hope to which he is calling you—THE MAGNIFICENCE AND SPLENDOUR of the inheritance promised to Christians—and HOW TREMENDOUS is the power available to us who believe. That power is the same divine power which was demonstrated in Christ when he raised him for the dead and gave him the place of supreme honour in Heaven—a place that is INFINITELY SUPERIOR to any conceivable command, authority, power or control, AND WHICH CARRIES WITH IT A NAME FAR BEYOND ANY NAME THAT COULD EVER BE USED IN THIS WORLD OR THE WORLD TO COME.” Ephesians 1:16-21 Phillips
I had thought of the MAKING ROOM for His blessing mostly in terms of letting go of our personal agenda, our personal perceptions and our busyness… But a Dear Sister shared Psalm 119:32 (which speaks of enlargement of heart see Part 3) and some quotes, and my view was ENLARGED! To make room we must empty ourselves through His sanctifying power, but also have our hearts be enlarged and grow spiritually bigger through His sanctifying power.
“The source of our joy is an ocean… So immeasurable and inexhaustible is the source of our delight, that we need a heart job done on us. We need heart enlargement to even begin to explore the height and the depth and the length and the breath.” (Br. Donald Holliday The Beauty of True Holiness)
“.....the capacity of our hearts was small: as they grow, as they enlarge, the sanctification must keep pace, filling every part: thus the Apostle exhorts, "Be ye filled with the Spirit".....The provision made for this enlargement of our hearts is expressed in the words of our Redeemer's prayer for us, "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy Word is truth." `John 17:17` F133
“While the Lord is now pouring out his Spirit upon his servants and handmaidens, it is for them to see that they are emptied vessels--empty that he may fill them--enlarged more and more that they may be more and more filled with the Spirit of God.” R3431
Thank you Sister Betty for these quotes!
The power of the holy spirit is certainly an ENLARGING power, resurrecting our Lord Jesus as a perfect human being begotten of the spirit to immortality! That power that resurrected Jesus from the human plane to immortality is at work in our hearts! “I thank God continually for you and I never give up praying for you; and this is my prayer. That God, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ and the all-glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and the insight to KNOW MORE OF HIM: that you may receive THAT INNER ILLUMINATION OF THE SPIRIT which will make you realize HOW GREAT is the hope to which he is calling you—THE MAGNIFICENCE AND SPLENDOUR of the inheritance promised to Christians—and HOW TREMENDOUS is the power available to us who believe. That power is the same divine power which was demonstrated in Christ when he raised him for the dead and gave him the place of supreme honour in Heaven—a place that is INFINITELY SUPERIOR to any conceivable command, authority, power or control, AND WHICH CARRIES WITH IT A NAME FAR BEYOND ANY NAME THAT COULD EVER BE USED IN THIS WORLD OR THE WORLD TO COME.” Ephesians 1:16-21 Phillips
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