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The more closely believers have walked with God, the more clearly and powerfully have they testified of their Redeemer's love and of His saving grace. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 9. The Spirit is given as a regenerating agency, to make effectual the salvation wrought by the death of our Redeemer. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 11. It is by the Spirit that the heart is made pure. Through the Spirit the believer becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ has given His Spirit as a divine power to overcome all hereditary and cultivated tendencies to evil, and to impress His own character on His church. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 13. When the Spirit of God takes possession of the heart, He transforms the life. Sinful thoughts are put away, evil deeds are renounced; love, humility, and peace take the place of anger, envy, and strife. Joy takes the place of sadness, and the countenance reflects the light of heaven. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 15. It is impossible for finite minds to comprehend the work of redemption. Its mystery exceeds human knowledge; yet he who passes from death to life realizes that it is a divine reality. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 15. Jesus Himself, in His infinite mercy, is working on human hearts, effecting spiritual transformations so amazing that angels look on with astonishment and joy. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 19. Heaven is full of the treasures of His grace, and those who come to God in faith may claim all that He has promised. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 23. We have only one channel of approach to God. Our prayers can come to Him through one name only--that of the Lord Jesus our Advocate. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 27. Every true believer in Christ will reveal that the grace of His love is in the heart. Where once there was estrangement from God, there will be revealed co partnership with Him; where once the carnal nature was manifest, there will be seen the attributes of the divine. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 28. It is the Holy Spirit, the redeeming grace of truth in the soul, that makes the followers of Christ one with one another, and one with God. . . . This is the power of grace. It is a divine power. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 34. It is the love of God that draws the soul to Christ to be graciously received and presented to His Father. Through the work of the Holy Spirit, the divine relationship between God and the sinner is renewed. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 41. Everything that God could do has been done for the salvation of man. In one rich gift He poured out the treasures of heaven. He invites, He pleads, He urges; but He will not compel men to come unto Him. He waits for their cooperation. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 41. The end is near, stealing upon us so stealthily, so imperceptibly, so noiselessly, like the muffled tread of the thief in the night to surprise the sleepers off guard and unready. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 44. We are to study the Word of God, comparing one portion with another. Scripture is the key that unlocks scripture. As we read and study and pray, there is beside us a divine Teacher, the Holy Spirit, enlightening our understanding, that we may comprehend the great truths of God's Word. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 55. We shall often have to bow down to weep at the feet of Jesus, because of our shortcomings and mistakes; but we are not to be discouraged; we are to pray more fervently, believe more fully, and try again with more steadfastness to grow into the likeness of our Lord. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 64. Look to Calvary until your heart melts at the amazing love of the Son of God. He left nothing undone that fallen man might be elevated and purified. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 78. That He might save the sinner, He withheld not His own life. The heart of Christ is ever touched with human woe. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 82. The love of God, cherished in the heart and revealed in the words and acts, will do more to elevate and ennoble human beings than all else can. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 96. At the altar of prayer, as the throne of grace is touched by faith, we receive from the hand of God that celestial torch which enlightens our darkness, and convinces us of our spiritual necessity. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 109. If the Word of God is received into the heart, it will empty the soul of self-sufficiency and self-dependence. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 116. I wish to impress upon you the fact that those who have Jesus abiding in the heart by faith have actually received the Holy Spirit. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 118. Prayer moves the arm of Omnipotence. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 132. Precious results will follow sincere, unselfish efforts. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 147. Behold the Son of God bowed in prayer to His Father! Though He is the Son of God, He strengthens His faith by prayer, and by communion with heaven gathers to Himself power to resist evil and to minister to the needs of men. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 153. Wherever there is an impulse of love and sympathy, wherever the heart reaches out to bless and uplift others, there is revealed the working of God's Holy Spirit. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 157. Man has been given the exalted privilege of revealing the divine character by unselfishly engaging in the effort to rescue man from the pit of ruin into which he has been plunged. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 166. Is Christ abiding in your hearts by faith? Is His Spirit in you? If it is, there will be such a yearning in your soul for the salvation of those for whom Christ has died, that self will sink into insignificance, and Christ alone will be exalted. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 170. Of all the gifts which God has given to man, none is more precious than the gift of speech, if it is sanctified by the Holy Spirit. It is with the tongue that we convince and persuade: with it we offer prayer and praise to God, and with it we convey rich thoughts of the Redeemer's love. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 179. There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repents, than over the ninety and nine who suppose they need no repentance. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 187. Faith is trusting God--believing that He loves us and knows best what is for our good. Thus, instead of our own, it leads us to choose His way. In place of our ignorance, it accepts His wisdom; in place of our weakness, His strength; in place of our sinfulness, His righteousness. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 196. Whatever gift He promises is in the promise itself. . . . As surely as the oak is in the acorn, so surely is the gift of God in His promise. If we receive the promise, we have the gift. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 196. We owe everything to grace, sovereign grace. Grace ordained our redemption, our regeneration, and our adoption to heirship with Jesus Christ. Let this grace be revealed to others. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 206. Our sins may be as mountains before us, but if we humble our hearts in confession of them, trusting in the merits of a crucified and risen Saviour, we shall be forgiven, and shall be cleansed from all unrighteousness. The depth of a Saviour's love is revealed in our salvation. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 212. It is only by an unselfish interest in those in need of help that we can give a practical demonstration of the truths of the gospel. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 243. In giving the Holy Spirit, it was impossible for God to give more. To this gift nothing could be added. By it all needs are supplied. The Holy Spirit is the vital presence of God . . . The restoration of the Spirit is the covenant of grace. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 284. Oh, what amazing love and condescension! The Lord Jesus encourages His believing ones to ask for the Holy Spirit. . . . The heavenly Parent is more willing to give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him than earthly parents are to give good gifts to their children. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 284. The Lord has promised to give all good things to those who ask Him, and all good things are defined as given with the gift of the Holy Spirit. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 291. When the grace of God reigns within, the soul will be surrounded with an atmosphere of faith and courage and Christlike love, an atmosphere invigorating to the spiritual life of all who inhale it. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 292. The remedy for evil is found in Christ as an indwelling Saviour. But in order that Christ may be in the soul, it must first be emptied of self, then there is a vacuum created that may be supplied by the Holy Spirit. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 293. When the Spirit of God takes possession of the heart, He transforms the life. Sinful thoughts are put away, evil deeds are renounced; love, humility, and peace take the place of anger, envy, and strife. Joy takes the place of sadness, and the countenance reflects the joy of heaven. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 298. The Holy Spirit does not work upon the human heart to compel you to give yourself to Christ, to force you to yield your conscience: but shines into the chambers of the mind in a way to convict of sin, and to entice you unto righteousness. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 300. Nothing else in this world is so dear to God as His church. Nothing is guarded by Him with such jealous care. Nothing so offends God as an act that injures the influence of those who are doing His service. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 301. It is not enough for us to have a knowledge of the truth. We are to walk and work in love, conforming our will to the will of God. . . . God is the mighty, all-powerful agency in this work of transformation. By His Holy Spirit He writes His law in the heart. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 303. The Lord Jesus loves His people, and when they put their trust in Him, depending wholly upon Him, He strengthens them. He will live through them, giving them the inspiration of His sanctifying Spirit, imparting to the soul a vital transfusion of Himself. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 305. Divine grace is needed at the beginning, divine grace at every step of advance, and divine grace alone can complete the work. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 306. Christ has identified His interest with that of suffering humanity; and while He is neglected in the person of His afflicted ones, all our assemblies, all our appointed meetings, all the machinery that is set in operation to advance the cause of God, will be of little avail. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 311. We want light, Lord--Thou art the Light. We want truth, Lord--Thou art the Truth. We want the right way--Thou art the Way. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 313. It is His purpose that every Christian shall be surrounded with a spiritual atmosphere of light and peace. There is no limit to the usefulness of the one who, putting self aside, makes room for the working of the Holy Spirit upon the heart, and lives a life wholly consecrated to God. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 314. The religion of Christ means more than the forgiveness of sin; it means that sin is taken away, and that the vacuum is filled with the Spirit. It means that the mind is divinely illumined, that the heart is emptied of self, and filled with the presence of Christ. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 318. God calls upon you to behold the glory of His character, that by beholding, you may become changed into His image. . . . Jesus came to reveal to the world the love and goodness of God. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 319. The great sin of those who profess to be Christians is that they do not open the heart to receive the Holy Spirit. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 322. The Christian's life is not a modification or improvement of the old life, but a transformation of the nature. There is a death to sin and self, and a new life altogether. This change can be brought about only by the effectual working of the Holy Spirit. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 323. Angels behold with inexpressible rapture the results of the working of the Holy Spirit in man. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 332. Love is the agency which God uses to expel sin from the human soul. By it He changes pride into humility, enmity and unbelief into love and faith. He does not employ compulsory measures; Jesus is revealed to the soul, and if man will look in faith to the Lamb of God, he will live. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 332. Christ died on Calvary that man might have power to overcome his natural tendencies to sin. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 350. The Holy Spirit is constantly at work seeking to draw the attention of men to the great sacrifice made upon the cross of Calvary, to unfold to the world the love of God to man, and to open to the convicted soul the precious promises in the Scriptures. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 355. But let us never forget that the efforts we make in our own strength are utterly worthless. Our strength is weakness; our judgment foolishness. Only in the name and strength of our Conqueror can we conquer. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 358. Nothing can be more helpless and yet more invincible than the soul that feel its nothingness, and relies wholly upon the merits of a crucified and risen Saviour. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 358. But we should remember that the church, enfeebled and defective though it is, is the object of Christ's supreme regard. Constantly He watches over it with tender solicitude, and strengthens it by His Holy Spirit. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 366. Christ is our pattern, the perfect and holy example that has been given us to follow. We can never equal the pattern; but we may imitate and resemble it according to our ability. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 369. We should realize in our inmost soul that all our efforts in and of ourselves will be utterly worthless; for it is only in the name and strength of the Conqueror that we shall be overcomers. -- Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 369. |