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The wisdom of the fathers
TO CHRISTIAN WORKERS Part 3
If your are one who has new believers in your care, be careful of preventing these children from coming to Jesus Christ.
(Mt. 19.14) It has been the habit of man throughout the ages to heal people by applying some remedy to the outward body when, in fact, the disease is deep inside. Why do converts remain basically unchanged despite so much effort? It is because those over them have dealt only with the outward matters of their lives. There is a better way: Go straight to the heart!
Laying down rules and trying to change the outward behavior will NOT produce a work that will endure in the life of a Christian. Then what is the answer?
Give the new convert the key to his spirit, to the inward part of his being! Give this secret to him first, and you will discover that his outward life will be changed naturally and easily. Accomplishing all this is very easy. How? Simply teach a believer to seek God within his own heart. Show the new Christian that he can set his mind on Jesus Christ and return to Him whenever he has wandered away.
Furthermore , show him he should do all and suffer all with a single eye to please God.. What a difference it will make. The new convert will discover that the Lord Jesus is the source of all grace; and he will see that in HIM is everything needed for life and godliness.
Preachers of the Word! Ministers of His life! YOU must establish His kingdom. In order to establish that kingdom, make Him ruler over the heart. The heart is the key. The heart alone can oppose His sovereignty. But on the other hand, in gaining the heart. the Lord's sovereignty in the believer's life is confessed and highly honoured.
Teach this simple experience, this prayer of the heart. Don't teach methods; don't teach some lofty way to pray. TEACH THE PRAYER OF GOD'S SPIRIT, not of man's invention.
How unnecessary it is to teach the art of loving! The language of love is strange and unnatural to that man who does not love, but perfectly natural to the one who loves. And how shall we love Him?
It is amazing and delightful to see it is the simplest Christians who often progress farthest in an inner relationship with Jesus Christ! Why? Because the Spirit of God simply does not need our tapestry! The simplest can know Him, and in the deepest way, with no help from ritual or forms or theological instruction! When it pleases Him, He turns factory workers into Prophets! The Lord Jesus thanked the Father for having "hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealing them to babes." (Mt. 11.25) (by Jeanne Guyon)
TO CHRISTIAN WORKERS Part 3
If your are one who has new believers in your care, be careful of preventing these children from coming to Jesus Christ.
(Mt. 19.14) It has been the habit of man throughout the ages to heal people by applying some remedy to the outward body when, in fact, the disease is deep inside. Why do converts remain basically unchanged despite so much effort? It is because those over them have dealt only with the outward matters of their lives. There is a better way: Go straight to the heart!
Laying down rules and trying to change the outward behavior will NOT produce a work that will endure in the life of a Christian. Then what is the answer?
Give the new convert the key to his spirit, to the inward part of his being! Give this secret to him first, and you will discover that his outward life will be changed naturally and easily. Accomplishing all this is very easy. How? Simply teach a believer to seek God within his own heart. Show the new Christian that he can set his mind on Jesus Christ and return to Him whenever he has wandered away.
Furthermore , show him he should do all and suffer all with a single eye to please God.. What a difference it will make. The new convert will discover that the Lord Jesus is the source of all grace; and he will see that in HIM is everything needed for life and godliness.
Preachers of the Word! Ministers of His life! YOU must establish His kingdom. In order to establish that kingdom, make Him ruler over the heart. The heart is the key. The heart alone can oppose His sovereignty. But on the other hand, in gaining the heart. the Lord's sovereignty in the believer's life is confessed and highly honoured.
Teach this simple experience, this prayer of the heart. Don't teach methods; don't teach some lofty way to pray. TEACH THE PRAYER OF GOD'S SPIRIT, not of man's invention.
How unnecessary it is to teach the art of loving! The language of love is strange and unnatural to that man who does not love, but perfectly natural to the one who loves. And how shall we love Him?
It is amazing and delightful to see it is the simplest Christians who often progress farthest in an inner relationship with Jesus Christ! Why? Because the Spirit of God simply does not need our tapestry! The simplest can know Him, and in the deepest way, with no help from ritual or forms or theological instruction! When it pleases Him, He turns factory workers into Prophets! The Lord Jesus thanked the Father for having "hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealing them to babes." (Mt. 11.25) (by Jeanne Guyon)
The name of the song was "Keeper of my Heart"
http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=388760
This is all I could find on the world wide web. It is a shame it is not on a video. IF I still had the cassette tape see how old it was.... I would put it on youtube or god tube.
Thank you for this topic very good! Yes Jesus is the keeper of my heart! I seek HIM will all of my heart! I am ever so glad HE takes broken and wounded hearts......
God Bless,
Hope