Alive to God
Scripture: "So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus." Romans 6:11
"The person who feels in his heart the mighty working of the Spirit of God is conscious of a 'peace which passeth all understanding.' He feels 'the love of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto him'; and all his spiritual senses are then exercised to discern spiritual good and evil. By the use of these he is daily increasing in the knowledge of God. And now he may be properly said to live: God having quickened him by His Spirit, he is alive to God through Jesus Christ. He lives a life which the world knows not of, a 'life which is hid with Christ in God.' God is continually breathing, as it were, upon the soul; and his soul is breathing unto God. Grace is descending into his heart, and prayer and praise ascending to heaven: and by this intercourse between God and man, this fellowship with the Father and the Son, as by a kind of spiritual respiration, the life of God in the soul is sustained: and the child of God grows up, till he comes to the 'full measure of the stature of Christ.'"
Prayer: "O Glorious Jesus, in whom we live and without whom we die; quicken our hearts with Thy holy love, that we may no longer esteem the vanities of the world, but place our affections entirely on Thee, who didst die for our sins and rise again for our justification. Amen."
~John Wesley
"The person who feels in his heart the mighty working of the Spirit of God is conscious of a 'peace which passeth all understanding.' He feels 'the love of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto him'; and all his spiritual senses are then exercised to discern spiritual good and evil. By the use of these he is daily increasing in the knowledge of God. And now he may be properly said to live: God having quickened him by His Spirit, he is alive to God through Jesus Christ. He lives a life which the world knows not of, a 'life which is hid with Christ in God.' God is continually breathing, as it were, upon the soul; and his soul is breathing unto God. Grace is descending into his heart, and prayer and praise ascending to heaven: and by this intercourse between God and man, this fellowship with the Father and the Son, as by a kind of spiritual respiration, the life of God in the soul is sustained: and the child of God grows up, till he comes to the 'full measure of the stature of Christ.'"
Prayer: "O Glorious Jesus, in whom we live and without whom we die; quicken our hearts with Thy holy love, that we may no longer esteem the vanities of the world, but place our affections entirely on Thee, who didst die for our sins and rise again for our justification. Amen."
~John Wesley
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