Conversational Prayer-Sonnets and Scriptures
January 9 ~
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ... We can’t do anything by ourselves and so claim to produce it ourselves, but God gives us our ability ... Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification ... therefore, as it is written, "Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord" ... the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace ... Now the Lord is that Spirit ... Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!God Is Love
To say that I of mine own Self can love
is folly! I’ve no real sufficiency ...
Blind arrogance! --
attributing to me
what only can come forth from God above:
for God is Love! As the indwelling Christ
doth He show forth through me -
as me! -
all things
enlightened, holy, righteous, true. God brings
-
and is! -
in this clay vessel all things right ...
My task, then, is to stay my mind on Him!
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to look to Him by faith: "My Life, Lord, be!"
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to walk in Him -
not Self! -
until my "me"
is Christ’s. O Glory! God -
Love! -
dwells within
this vessel, and through faith is realized.
Infinity’s thus individualized!
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"This I command you, that you love one another" ... "Abide in Me, and I in you ... for apart from Me you can do nothing" ... love is from God; and every one who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love ... I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me ... the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God ... Looking unto Jesus ...
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