"The Lord sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost" -Acts 9:17
It is possible to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Oh, how easy it is to utter a sentance like that,....
but what a solemn, glorious possibiliy is expressed by those words. - to be full of the Spirit, as the tree in springtime is full of sap; full from the deepest root, right away to the farthermost leaf.
Full as the human body of a healthy person is full of life; full as the white hot iron is full of the fire!
You can take the iron.....cold and dark, and you put it into the fire, and the fire enters into it, and soon the fire changes its colour and its power....and now that white hot iron is possessed, interpenetrated by the fire within it, and so full is that iron of the fire that if you touch the iron you feel not so much the iron, but the fire which possesses the iron.
And it is possible to be so full of the Spirit that all bondage, and all friction, and all the fever of lust disappear; so full of the Spirit that selfishness in motive, in intention, in purpose, in endeavour disappears; so full of the Spirit that all conscious and wilfull resistance to God disappears; so full that God becomes present, predominent, supreme, throughout the length and breadth of one's whole being.
So full that God becomes the supreme law in the soul, the supreme authority in the soul, the supreme power in the soul; and as a result there is a complete subjection of heart and life to the purpose and will of God.
One would gladly go around the world to make known a glorious possibility like that!
It is possible for you....in your environment, for you...wherever you live....man, woman....it is possible for you here and now to be filled with the Holy Ghost........
It is possible to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Oh, how easy it is to utter a sentance like that,....
but what a solemn, glorious possibiliy is expressed by those words. - to be full of the Spirit, as the tree in springtime is full of sap; full from the deepest root, right away to the farthermost leaf.
Full as the human body of a healthy person is full of life; full as the white hot iron is full of the fire!
You can take the iron.....cold and dark, and you put it into the fire, and the fire enters into it, and soon the fire changes its colour and its power....and now that white hot iron is possessed, interpenetrated by the fire within it, and so full is that iron of the fire that if you touch the iron you feel not so much the iron, but the fire which possesses the iron.
And it is possible to be so full of the Spirit that all bondage, and all friction, and all the fever of lust disappear; so full of the Spirit that selfishness in motive, in intention, in purpose, in endeavour disappears; so full of the Spirit that all conscious and wilfull resistance to God disappears; so full that God becomes present, predominent, supreme, throughout the length and breadth of one's whole being.
So full that God becomes the supreme law in the soul, the supreme authority in the soul, the supreme power in the soul; and as a result there is a complete subjection of heart and life to the purpose and will of God.
One would gladly go around the world to make known a glorious possibility like that!
It is possible for you....in your environment, for you...wherever you live....man, woman....it is possible for you here and now to be filled with the Holy Ghost........
