July 11, 2013

  •  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.  John 15:7

    Christ’s Words in Us

    by R.A. Torrey

    If we are to receive from God all we ask from Him, Christ’s words must abide in us. We must study His words and let them sink into our thoughts and heart. We must keep them in our memory, obey them constantly in our life, and let them shape and mold our daily life and our every act.

    This is really the method of abiding in Christ. It is through His words that Jesus imparts Himself to us. The words He speaks unto us, they are spirit and they are life (John 6:63). It is vain to expect power in prayer unless we meditate upon the words of Christ and let them sink deep and find a permanent abode in our hearts; His words do not abide in them. It is not by moments of mystical meditation and rapturous experiences that we learn to abide in Christ. It is by feeding upon His Word, His written Word in the Bible, and looking to the Spirit to implant these words in our heart—to make them a living thing in our heart. If we thus let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up to prayer.

    The Word of God is the instrument through which the Holy Spirit works. It is the sword of the Spirit in more senses than one. The person who wants to know the work of the Holy Spirit in any direction must feed upon the Word. The person who desires to pray in the Spirit must meditate on the Word, so that the Holy Spirit may have something through which He can work. The Holy Spirit words His prayers in us through the Word. If we seek to feed the fire of our prayers with the fuel of God’s Word, all our difficulties in prayer will disappear.