February 6 ~

"Abide in Me, and I in you ... for apart from Me you can do nothing" ... Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of our selves; but our sufficiency is of God ... Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, righteousness, holiness, and ransom from sin ... For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not ...
Jn.15:4,5 (NAS); 2Cor.3:5 (KJV); 1 Cor.1:30 (Beck); Rom.7:18 (KJV)

Whatever I command, O child, of thee
thou cannot truly do apart from Me.
Self simply does not have sufficiency!
God sends by Me all that thou need to be!
Child, I'm, in thee, all Wisdom, Righteousness:
all Love and Goodness, and all Holiness.
Dost dare to look within and true confess
that there is no good thing within thy flesh?
Child, Romans 7:18 memorize!
'Twill help thee fend off Satan's claims and lies
so thou wilt not be taken by surprise
when finding Self is neither good nor wise
but willing be to turn from Self - let go! -
and cleave to Me, thy Lord, Who loves thee so!

Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men ... You think as men think, not as God thinks ... In my inmost self I delight in the law of God, but I perceive in my bodily members a different law, fighting against the law that my reason approves ... I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it ... O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? ... thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ ...
Matt.16:23 (KJV,NEB); Rom.7:22 (NEB); 7:18 (RSV); 7:24 (KJV); 1 Cor.15:57 (KJV).

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