Secret Power; or, The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work — John Shaqi
Secret Power; or, The Secret of Success in Christian Life and WorkMoody, Dwight Lyman
Religion
Secret Power; or, The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Baptism in the Holy Spirit; Christian life; Holy Spirit
Then, the Holy Spirit IN US is one thing, and the Holy Spirit ON US is
another; and if these Christians had gone out and went right to
preaching then and there, without the power, do you think that scene
would have taken place on the day of Pentecost? Don't you think that
Peter would have stood up there and beat against the air, while these
Jews would have gnashed their teeth and mocked him? But they tarried
in Jerusalem; they waited ten days. What! you say. What, the world
perishing and men dying! Shall I wait? Do what God tells you. There is
no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting
to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this
unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without
the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing his time after all. So we are not
going to lose anything if we tarry till we get this power. That is the
object of true service, to wait on God, to tarry till we receive this
power for witness-bearing. Then we find that on the day of Pentecost,
ten days after Jesus Christ was glorified, the Holy Spirit descended
in power. Do you think that Peter and James and John and those
apostles doubted it from that very hour? They never doubted it.
Perhaps some question the possibility of having the power of God now,
and that the Holy Spirit never came afterward in similar
manifestation, and will never come again in such power.
FRESH SUPPLIES.
Turn to Acts iv, 31, and you will find He came a second time, and at a
place where they were, so that the earth was shaken, and they were
filled with this power. The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have
to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ,
and so have a fresh supply.
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