Developing Your Spirit Life

The secret of developing should be learned by every thinking man. He should make it his business to know how to develop his spirit nature so that he can get the most out of it. Back behind this study lies the fact that we, who are children of God, have received into our spirits the nature and life of God. This has changed our very beings. It has linked us up with God; linked us up with wisdom, with life, with love. It has linked us up with the mightiest forces of the universe. Jesus said, “I am the vine, ye are the branches.” Jesus is wisdom; we are a branch of wisdom. Jesus is life; we are a branch of life. Jesus is the unveiling of love; we are a branch of love.

Love is the mightiest force in the human heart, whether it be natural human love, or the new kind of love that Jesus brought to the world. God is love, and as we walk in love, think in love, live in love, we become one with Him in His love life. We are where we can draw on His omnipotence, His ability, His strength, His health, yes, His very life.
It is of the first importance that the child of God know what he is. Until we recognize what we really are in Christ, we will not know the riches that belong to us, and the abilities that are ours. Can you imagine the limitlessness of an actual walk, a daily life, with the great Father God?

Can you estimate what it would mean to have an open, fresh, sweet fellowship with Him daily, so that you could meet Him on terms of utter equality, as lovers meet each other?
Such lovers haven’t a single thing hidden from the object of their affection. They have abandoned themselves to love. Can you imagine what it would mean to you if you could abandon yourself to Christ as Christ has abandoned Himself to you? Then you could understand what it would mean to be united with Him in resurrection life. You could understand what it would mean for you to be so utterly one with Him that His victory over the adversary was your victory; thus, you would not have any combat with the enemy, because the enemy has already been defeated as far as you and Christ are concerned.

You could understand 1 Cor. 1: 30, “But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.”
That comprehends the completed, finished work of Christ for us. God is made wisdom in Christ to us. That means that the wisdom and ability of God is imparted to us in Christ. We have access to it. The illustration of the vine and the branches perfectly illustrates this. The branch is a part of the vine. (He is the vine.) The vine furnishes all the life that comes up out of the ground through the roots, but the branches bear all the fruit and have the leaves and blossoms. The vine and the branch are united, they are one.

Do you see how utterly one they are? The believer is united with Christ in the same way. It is a union of life in life, of love in love, of nature in nature. You are utterly one with Him. All that He is yours. All that you are is His. Jesus promised the Spirit’s cooperation with us in our earthly walk. John 14:16-17 “And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: ye know Him; for He abideth with you, and shall be in you.”

He is called the Comforter, the Paraclete, the Teacher, and the Guide. He is called “the Spirit of truth.” Truth, here, is Reality. Physical things are real to our senses. I can touch the chair and the table. I can see the book lying in my lap. I can hear the voice of my secretary. I can feel, I can see, I can hear, I can taste, I can smell. These are all avenues through which knowledge comes to my brain. They are all real to me. Jesus said, “I am going to send you the spirit of reality. He is going to unveil to you spiritual realities, so that they will become as tangible and real to you as material things. He is with you now, but a little later He is going to be in you.”

That was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost. He came into them. From that day, this Spirit became the teacher and the guide to lead us into reality. John 14:26, “But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.” This new Teacher is going to teach us the things of the spirit. We know the things of the senses. They are as an open book before us. We can learn all we need to know about them. But the things of the spirit are not so real to us, so He is going to reveal Himself to us.

John 15:26, “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall bear witness of me.” Jesus is the unveiling of the Father, the unveiler of spiritual realities. He says that this Unseen Person is coming to unveil to us the things that made Jesus what He was in His earth walk. “John 16:13-15, “Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He shall guide you into all truth (or reality).” This is really thrilling. There is coming Someone who is to live in the bodies of men, who can guide them into the reality of spiritual things. He is going to make spiritual things as real to our spirits as physical things are real to our senses.

“He shall glorify me: for He shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you. All that belonged to Jesus in the spiritual realm now is to be communicated to our spirits by this Unseen Personality who is coming. What a mighty thing it is. He says, “All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that He taketh of mine, and shall declare it unto you.” We have not grown in spirit enough yet to appreciate much of the realities of spiritual things. You can understand now what Faith means. Faith has to do with the unseen realities. I act upon this written Word, and the unseen things become real in my spirit.

In John 14:21 Jesus said, “He that hath my commandments (that is, if we love one another as He loved us, John 13:34-35) and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.” It is not going to be a manifestation that the eye can feast upon, or the hands can touch. It is going to be a spiritual unveiling, a manifestation of the very heart-life of Jesus to us. Jesus is going to be revealed to us in the Word. As you read the Word, your heart will burn and thrill within you. Then you will be able to use the Name of Jesus.

He said, “Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, He will give it you.”
I have seen the manifestation of the Father’s presence many times. I have laid hands on the sick, in the Name of Jesus, and those pains have gone and the diseases have simply ceased to be. It was the Spirit manifesting the reality of the words of Jesus.
My words are a part of me, just as God’s words are a part of Him. The Word has been made real by my using it. John 14:23, “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”

If we live in the Word, and keep His Word, we will act on it. If Jesus and the Father made their home with us, that would be the very climax of love’s unveiling. It would be the end of poverty and want. “My God shall supply every need of yours.” He is living here with me now, living in my house, just as the Spirit has been living in my body.
When Jesus used Peter’s boat to speak to the multitude, He paid Peter. He said, “Did you catch anything last night, Peter?” Peter answered, “Master, we toiled all night and caught nothing.” Then the Master said, “Put out into the deep and let down your net.”

Peter replied, “Master, there are no fish here, but at Thy word, I will let down the net.” When he did, it was so filled with fish the nets started to break. If He would do that for Peter, for the use of his boat, He will meet your needs. If He lives with you, it will be the end of sickness, the end of turmoil, quarrelling and bitterness. There will be no divorces in homes like that. Children will not be failures, for they will be living in constant contact with the Man of the Ages. Notice what Jesus said, “He is with you and shall be in you.” If the Holy Spirit makes His home in you, and you give Him right-of-way and treat Him as you would treat an honored guest, that house will never be filled with sickness and disease.

Isn’t this beautiful” You can have God actually living in your home, in your body. “Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?” I Cor. 6:19. That is divine cooperation with our spirits. A man who has God in him will have wisdom. At every crisis of his day’s work, he has the One inside who knows all. He learns the secret of leaning hack upon the One inside. In order to develop wisdom, as it should be developed, it is going to be necessary that we have quiet hours of meditation in the Word. Josh. 1:8 records the conversation that God had with Joshua after the death of Moses. “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but then shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written herein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success (or deal wisely).”

This is the thing we want. This is the thing that will make knowledge valuable.
This is the thing that will make executives of men.
This is the thing that will make a home like heaven. The husband and wife will have wisdom to live with each other, as they rear their children.

Foolish mothers and fathers, foolish young men and women, who throw their lives away by contracting habits that will hinder them in their progress, are robbing themselves of joy in the future. The thing they most need is wisdom. Do you think if that mother had wisdom, she would nurse a babe with a cigarette in her mouth? Do you think if that father had wisdom, he would come home drunk to a wife and baby? No! It is lack of wisdom that causes men and women to do the things they are now doing.

We might suggest a hundred ways in which we act unwisely. Do you think a man would buy property that will be a burden to him as long as he lives, if he had wisdom? No! The wise man saves his money and buys carefully. Why? Because there is something inside of him to guide him. Can you see the value of this? It comes to our hearts as a challenge. Do you want to cultivate this wisdom? It comes by meditation in the Word. Then your way will become prosperous. Then you will act wisely. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching you, guiding you.”

Meditate in Proverbs, the first eight or ten chapters, and you will see the vast place that wisdom holds. Then you will turn with excitement of soul to the Pauline Revelation to find the secret of this wisdom of which God is speaking through Solomon. John 15:7 “if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” The words of Christ are wisdom. You may commit them to memory, but that is not abiding in them. To abide in them means the Word has gained the authority over you, so you are living and walking in its wisdom. You are learning not only to obey it, but to fellowship with it. You become a partaker of the Word.

A man goes into a country and becomes a part of it. You go into the Word, and the Word becomes a part of you, and you become a part of the Word. You learn to associate in your heart-life with the Man of Galilee, to associate your life with His Word so that you and His Word become one. “If ye abide in me, and my words gain the supremacy in you, then you can ask anything you will and it belongs to you.” Why? Because you are praying His prayer, and you are living His life.

“It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me.” The works that I am doing are His works. The words that I am preaching are His words. The deeds that I am doing are His deeds. He said, “Greater works than these shall ye do; because I go unto the Father.” What does He mean? He means that He is going to become so utterly one with us and we so utterly one with I Tim that we will have His ability, His wisdom, His authority invested in His own Name, and we will have the great, mighty Holy Spirit who raised Him from the dead dwelling in us, energizing through us.

No wonder we will do His works. We could not help but do His works. He and I have become one. It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me. Then there grows up between your heart and His heart a familiarity, an utter fellowship, just as between lovers. The woman opens her heart to the man, the man opens his very life to her. The two lives flow into one life, and there is a new life. There is only one life now. Christ has opened His life and you have opened your life. Your two lives flow into one. It is like two streams flowing down the mountain side. In the valley they join into one. You learn to act on His Word in your daily life.

Prov. 3:5-6, “Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding: in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.”
Analyze this truth. Trust in Jehovah with your whole being. Stop leaning on your own understanding. You have found somebody who is wise. You are resting in Him. His ability has become your ability. His love has become your love. His strength has become your strength, and by His stripes you have found a perfect healing for spirit, soul and body.

You walk in the fulness of this wonderful heavenly union. His Word has become a part of you. You live in it. When you need money you just remember His Word: “My God shall supply every need of yours.” (Phil. 4:19.) You look up with thankfulness and say “Father, I thank you for meeting my financial needs.” You need physical strength for some hard duty. You remember that He said He was the strength of Your life. You need wisdom and you remember that “Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear.” Light means wisdom. Salvation means deliverance. He is my wisdom and my deliverance. I am not afraid of anything now.

The wonder and beauty of this life! This is where He and you are so tied up with each other, so utterly one with each other, that His wisdom becomes yours. 1 Cor. 1:30, “But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus.” We are in Him; of His own will He brought us forth. We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus. Christ was made unto us wisdom from God. He is made unto us God’s wisdom. He is made unto us God’s righteousness, God’s sanctification and redemption. We are not common folk. This lifts us out of the common place into the super-realm. You are the real supermen and super-women. You have gone outside of the realm of the senses, outside the realm of sense knowledge, and you have passed over into the realm of God, the spirit realm.

Eph. 3:20, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.” God’s ability is at work within you. You have grace given to you, according to the measure of the gift of Christ, so that the very ability and grace of God is yours. You will come to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. It passes all sense evidences. You will he filled to all the fulness of God. John 1: 16, “Of His fulness we all received, and grace for grace.” You have entered into His fulness, into His life. You have found the unsearchable riches of Christ. You are seated with Him at His right hand.

You died with Him; you were buried with Him. You have been raised with Him, and now you are seated with Him. You are one with Him. You and He have found yourselves blended in each other’s life. You abandon your heart-life to Him. Perhaps there will be no test as great, but no reward as rich. You dare trust Him with your heart. I know men and women who can trust Him with their finances, with their children, with their loved ones, with their bodies; but when it comes to trusting Him with their hearts, they balk.
If you want His wisdom, the fulness of His grace, you want to he able to say, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He is making me to lie down in the green pastures, and He is leading me beside the waters of gentle stillness,” then trust Him with your heart. You then can say, “He has restored my soul to perfect fellowship with Himself. He has renewed my mind. He has led me out of the bondage of fear and doubt, out of the counsel of the senses, and the realm of the senses. I have come to know that my heart is safer with Him than with any one else. I love, because He loves in me, and through me. I have yielded my heart life to His Lordship.” Lying back behind this entire program is the Lordship of Love, the Lordship of the Word. You recognize His Lordship. You abandon yourself to His Lordship. It is the Lordship of Love … the Lordship of Wisdom. It is a lover who lords over you. Oh, what a heaven it is!

You are not afraid to love Him. You are not afraid to trust Him. You are not afraid to abandon yourself utterly to the sway of His love and of His life. Your mind has been renewed in knowledge after the image of Him. You are coming to know His priceless will. As this Lordship unveils itself, and you enter into the sweetness of it, there comes the last thing of which I want to speak to you: a renewed mind. You see life from a different angle. You have a heart filled with love, with an utter abandonment to His Word, for His Word is wisdom. You recognize His indwelling presence. You have become God-inside-minded. You have become wisdom-minded.

Love and wisdom are the greatest needs of men. You have them. You have possessed them. What is the result? 1 Peter 5:7 “Casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He careth for you.” You are resting in His love, in His protection and care. Fear no longer dominates you. You stand in the fulness of His marvelous life, a victor. You are resting, while others are laboring and crying and praying in agony of failure. You have moved out into the realm of success. You are resting in His rest, living in His quietness. He sat down, and you are seated with Him. You and He now are in the sweetest companionship and fellowship. This is success.

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