God Is Dealing With Self
.. Self must come to an end. I think we’re learning aren’t we that God is going to deal with the self – that is you the person as He did with His Son. Much of our trial – our walk of faith – is that God is dealing with us – the person. We go through all these different experiences with The Lord, each day is often quite different. It is because God is dealing with the Self Life. In actual fact we could say that God is removing hindrances to our faith in believing and trusting with that childlike faith that we’re to have in His Word.
Dealing With Wrong Thinking
We still try to analyse. We still try to understand in the flesh and you never will. That is why we are worshippers in spirit and in truth. It is spiritual. The Word of God that we hear is spiritual and it is light. And so often God is dealing with the self that is the flesh life where we have still the wrong thinking – the wrong ideas – where God is renewing the mind through His Word – that manna that we eat – in order for us to understand. When you understand that very often is faith. Understanding settles you, it reminds you of the rock that you stand upon which is Jesus Christ.
The Battle With Self Is In The Mind
We also know that our minds are a target for the Powers of Darkness. That is why our battle is so often in the mind. But you see the wonderful thing about all of this – and we don’t always appreciate it – is that the Deeper Life teaching that we and others around the world teach – is your deliverance. It is what helps to keep the doors closed to the mind because The Enemy is all the while trying to reopen those doors that you have closed where you have allowed Christ to stand as a banner – as a shield in your mind and your thinking.. Self must come to an end.. .. ..
1 John 1:7 but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Luke 11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26 whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
1 Kings 19:12 and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
