by Dale Shumaker
Spirit Savvy Network
www.spiritsavvy.net
Finding your mission, Empowering your life through prayer,
Becoming a Missionary in the Marketplace
Leading others to be Missionaries in the Marketplace
The
Secret of the Master's Indwelling is about digging our roots deep into
God’s soil that bears fruit abundantly and gives us strength
Supernaturally. Andrew Murray shows what we must do and be to become
stalwarts of Faith.
Secret of the Master’s Indwelling, Chapter 10, Joy in the Holy Spirit.
“What
now is this invisible pane of plate glass, that hinders my taking the
beautiful things I see? It is nothing but the self-life; I see divine
things but cannot reach them, the self-life is the invisible plate
glass. We are willing, we are working, we are striving, and yet we are
holding back something; we are afraid to give up everything to God. We
do not know what the consequences may be.
What
is this joy? First of all, it is the joy of the presence of Jesus. We
are often inclined to speak most of two other things, the power for
sanctification, and the power for service. But I find there is a thing
more important than either of those two, and that is that the Holy Ghost
came from Heaven to be the abiding presence of Christ in His disciples,
in the Church, and in the heart of every believer.
But
when He had ascended to Heaven, He came back in the Spirit to dwell in
their hearts. With God’s people, there seems to be one hindrance, they do not know their Saviour.
They do not realize that this blessed Christ is an ever present,
all-pervading, in-dwelling Christ, who wants to take charge of their
entire lives.
Begin
to believe with your whole heart, “The joy of the Holy Ghost is my
portion,” for the Holy Ghost secures to me without interruption the
presence and the love of Jesus.
Secondly, there is the joy of deliverance from sin.
He
wants Christ so formed in us that we are one with Christ, and that in
our thinking, feeling and living, the image of His blessed Son is
manifest before Him. The Holy Spirit is given to sanctify us.
How
often the believer forgets that this body is the very secret temple of
the Holy Ghost and that every mouthful we eat and drink must be for the
glory of God in such a way as to be perfectly well pleasing to Him!
There
is access for you into the rest of God, and the Holy Spirit is given to
bring you in, and the Holy Spirit will fill your heart with the
unutterable joy of Christ’s presence; and with the joy of deliverance
from sin, of victory over sin; the unutterable joy of knowing that you
are doing God’s will and are pleasing in His sight; the unutterable joy
of knowing that He is sanctifying and keeping the temple for Christ to
dwell in.
My
third thought is: the joy of the Holy Ghost is the joy of the love of
the saints. When He dwells with me and my brother we learn to love each
other. Though I be unloving naturally, and though I have very little
grace, if the heart of my brother is full of the Holy Spirit he loves me
through it all. You know love is a wonderful thing.
One
sharp word to your brother or sister brings a cloud upon you without
your knowing it. People are so accustomed to talk just as they like
about each other that they say sharp and unkind and unloving things, and
when a cloud comes in consequence they cannot understand it. If there
is one thing that grieves God, if there is one thing that hinders the
Spirit—the fruit of the Spirit is love—it is the want of lovingness.
“Love is rest and rest is love, and where there is no love the rest must
be disturbed.” And let us say to-day, “I see what the joy is; it is the
joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to
others.”
Come
and accept a blessing and give yourself up to live a life of humility
in which you are nothing, and a life of love like Christ’s in which you
only live for your fellow-men, for the kingdom of God is the joy of the
Holy Ghost.
My
last thought is that the joy of the Holy Ghost is the joy of working
for God.
The joy of the presence of Jesus, the joy of deliverance from
sin, the joy of love for the brethren, and then the joy of working for
God.
Do
let us remember the joy of the Holy Ghost is the joy of working for God
in Christ. I believe that God has new ways and new leadings and new
power for His people, if they will only wait on Him.
The
great need is that all Christians should consecrate themselves wholly
to God for His work. May God help us to know what is the joy of the Holy
Ghost.
He
who is almighty and omnipresent is always going to be with us and is
always going to work within us. And let us when we have done that, claim
the promise, that as we have sought first the kingdom and God’s
righteousness, all things shall be added unto us. Beloved, the kingdom
of God is within you, and it is righteousness and peace and joy in the
Holy Ghost. Come, let us claim it even now in simple, childlike, humble
faith,”
The complete chapter on Joy in the Holy Spirit:
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/murray/indwelling.xiii.html
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