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Principles of Spiritual Growth

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Answer the following as you read Principles of Spiritual Growth by Miles J. Stanford

Principles of Spiritual Growth

FAITH

  1. Unless our faith is established on it is no more than conjecture, superstition, , or presumption.
  2. Since faith is anchored on scriptural facts, we are certainly not to be influenced by .
  3. has nothing to do with probabilities.
  4. Trials, , difficulties, and sometimes defeats, are the very of faith.
  5. “Faith is upon God.”
  6. “The shall live by faith,” not only in your circumstances, but in everything.

    7. TIME

  7. Since the Christian life matures and becomes fruitful by the principle of rather than by the and “experiences,” much is involved.
  8. There are no short cuts to !
  9. All growth is , and the finer the organism, the the process.
  10. It takes to get to know ourselves; it takes and to get to know our infinite Lord Jesus Christ.
  11. What the Lord does is to us to possess.

    12. ACCEPTANCE

  12. Every is accepted by the Father, in Christ.
  13. God has effected the ; He always remains true to it.
  14. God’s basis must be our basis for .
  15. As in , our acceptance is by grace alone.
  16. We must never forget that “God’s are not always man’s .
  17. Until the Christian is absolutely and scripturally sure of his , he is not going to do much .

    18. PURPOSE

  18. The first Adam, the head of the human race, was made in image in the realm of personality, intellect, , will, and so on, so that there could be communion, fellowship and between them; with God sovereign and man subject—subject to His will, which is perfect .
  19. Our Heavenly Father is still carrying out His of making man in His .
  20. One of God’s most effective means in the process is .
  21. God has a natural in force to the effect that we are conformed to that on which we center our and love.
  22. Come to the for one purpose and that is to meet the Lord.

    23. PREPARATION

  23. As for our , needs cause us to reach out and appropriate by from our Lord Jesus, that which we require.
  24. In , there is a tearing down before there can be a building up.
  25. It takes a man who has discovered something of the measures of his own to be patient with the of others.
  26. Our personal, heart-breaking failure in every phase of our Christian life is our Father’s for His success on our behalf.
  27. It is the man who lacks the to know Him that will easily be turned aside.

    28. COMPLETE IN HIM

  28. has learned to take time to assess the facts.
  29. Since we are in our Lord Jesus, it will not do to try and add to that work.
  30. No believer ever fell into , even though he is complete in Christ.
  31. The development of the life in the Christian is like the growth in the world.
  32. Not only is our life complete in Him but likewise the essential in all the exigencies of that life.

    33. APPROPRIATION

  33. Appropriation does not necessarily mean to gain something but to set aside for our practical possession something that already to us.
  34. Once we see that which is ours in Christ Jesus, need will cause us to appropriate, to receive, the to that need.
  35. In most instances of appropriation there is a waiting period between the and the —often of years.
  36. The course of experience, of life, is to discover, to appropriate, and to by all that the life represents and means.
  37. In this matter of Christian there is no shortcut, no quick and easy way.

    38. IDENTIFICATION

  38. To know God’s way of from sin as a master he must apprehend the truth contained in the chapter of Romans.
  39. It is only God’s Word that tells you Christ bare your sins in His own body on the .
  40. We with Christ. He for us, and we with Him.
  41. “If the difference between ‘Christ for us,’ and ‘our with Him’ has not been recognized, , and applied, it may safely be affirmed that the is still the dominating factor in the life.”
  42. You believe the Lord Jesus died for your because God said so. Now take the next . Accept by the further fact that you died with Him, i.e., that your ‘old man was with Him’.

    43. There are only two classes of people—the saints and the ain’ts.

    CONSECRATION

  43. Until one is aware of his need to spiritually, he will never be brought beyond the truths—a mere babe in Christ.
  44. Every hungry-hearted Christian yearns to be fully and conditioned for an effective life and service.
  45. As Christians, it is time for us to see the of going beyond the love motive to the motive.
  46. can accept absolutely nothing from the old—He sees and acknowledges only that which is centered in Son, who is our life.
  47. Uncrucified refuses to be consecrated.

    48. SELF

  48. In order for one to get beyond just about the Lord Jesus and enter into a consistent and growing personal of, and fellowship with, Him, one must first come to oneself.
  49. No will truly come to know the Lord Jesus as life until knows by experience that self-life deep within for what it is.
  50. All through life God has to us our own utter sinfulness and , before He is able to lead us on into realms of grace, in which we shall His glory.
  51. Self-revelation precedes divine revelation—that is a for both spiritual birth and spiritual growth.
  52. People, circumstances, etc. are never the cause of . Self’s reaction to them is the cause and the one to be dealt with.
  53. When a man is he has no strength.
  54. To live in Him who is our Life, is to be in the of God.

    55. SELF-DENIAL

  55. Man has many ways of seeking to escape the of self.
  63. It was on the Cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with , the nature from which all our flow.
  64. Our with Him on Calvary took us into death, down into the tomb, up into of life.
  65. As we learn to on the finished work of Calvary, the Holy Spirit will begin to faithfully and apply that finished work of the cross to the self-life, thereby it in the place of death—inactive—resulting in the “not I, but Christ” life (Gal. 2:30).

    66. THE CROSS

  66. Understanding and the facts of the cross proves to be one of the most difficult and trying of all for the growing believer.
  67. There is no for us which was not first His.
  68. When we stand with Him in , we will be forever free from the presence of sin entirely sanctified and .
  69. Sin need have no more power over the believer than he grants it through .
  70. When believers get sick and tired of spinning year after year in a squirrel cage—sinning, confessing, but then again—they will be ready for God’s answer to the source of , which is to self, brought forth from the completed work of the cross.
  71. We need for what we have done, but we need from what we are.
  72. By faith I must him to be in the place that God put him—crucified with Christ.

    73. DISCIPLESHIP

  73. In spiritual progress our Lord never .
  74. A disciple is one who is free from the and free for the .
  75. Taking up our cross does not mean the stoical bearing of some heavy , hardship, illness, distasteful or relationship.
  76. When the believer begins to really see the for what it is—a place of — he is inclined to hesitate about choosing such .
  77. Here is how we take up and bear our : Finally prepared by our , aware that our was broken in Christ on , we definitely begin to rely on that finished work—we appropriate.
  78. The Lord within as the sole source of life.

    79. PROCESS OF DISCIPLESHIP

  79. The principle of growth is always “first the , then the ear, after that the full in the ear.”
  80. Many want to do God’s work but are , because of the “flesh” in their lives.
  81. The Lord of the harvest, plants, or , Christians as seeds in a field, which is the .
  82. When the believer takes up his cross for , the process of death begins to set in.
  83. All the we have learned about the cross, of our with Christ, of our death to sin with Him and of our to death like the kernel of wheat falling into the ground to die; are preparatory to the overcoming .

    84. REST

  84. is the key to entering into !
  85. To give up is faith’s sin.
  86. It is necessary to remember a principle in the spiritual life: that God only reveals spiritual truths to meet spiritual .
  87. Once in possession of a , we are to —He will produce.
  88. As we thus follow in the steps of those who “by faith and inherit the ,” a new divine thing will happen within us.

    89. HELP

  89. considers the Lord Jesus a helper. knows Him to be life itself.
  90. Our Lord Jesus waits to be and to be all in us and do all us.
  91. Our is to see in the Word all that is ours in Christ and then thank and trust Him for that which we .
  92. God’s means of us from is not by making us stronger and stronger, but by making us weaker and weaker.

    93. CULTIVATION

  93. that He is, the beginning of God’s cultivation of the hungry-hearted believer is .
  94. Each of us must be thoroughly before He can effectively others through us.
  95. We are not to serve, we are to serve.
  96. To the extent that we learn how our Father has had to us through the years will we understand how He would have us with others.
  97. The greatest of our love for Christ is that we care for those who belong to Him.

    98. CONTINUANCE

  98. Our Father strips away from time to time in order to give us the of loving and trusting and to Him just because He is our Father.
  99. The Testament has a lot to say about growing up, leaving childhood and attaining unto full .
  100. For in experience the things of God are less and less outward, that is, of gift, and more and more inward, of life.
  101. We have to trust His all through, and learn increasingly to distrust ourselves.
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Answer the following as you readFilled with the Holy Spirit by E. J. Daniels

Filled With the Holy Spirit

  1. The word translated “power” here is “ ,” from which we get our word .
  2. The power of the Holy Spirit, the power of God, is not only but is to every Christian who will it.
  3. God’s H-Bomb can help us win the over our .
  4. In Ephesians God us to be “ with the .”
  5. The importance of this subject is evidenced by the fact that Jesus commanded His disciples to for the before they forth to .
  6. The Holy Spirit is not an “ ”. He is a , as much as , the or the .
  7. He is said to have , and to .
  8. He has a .
  9. He is said to .
  10. He is said to and .
  11. He is said to be .
  12. Saying, “Be filled with the Holy Spirit” is equal to saying, “Be with God’s , and .”
  13. The filling of the Holy Spirit is not another .
  14. The filling of the Holy Spirit is not a “ blessing.”
  15. It is not the of the nature, nor absolute that makes the man.
  16. It does have a tremendous effect on one’s and , as we shall see later, but this is not the of the Spirit .
  17. The filling of the Holy Spirit in the spiritual realm is exactly what being with is in the realm.
  18. It means the Spirit of God that dwells within every born again believer so and him that his entire life is God’s .
  19. To be filled with God’s Spirit, then, does not mean to the Holy Spirit, but rather to be by the Holy Spirit.
  20. We are by the Holy Spirit (John 16:7-11). We are by the Spirit (John 3:5). We are by the Spirit (Ephesians 4:30).
  21. The Spirit of God takes charge of the reins and dominates and controls every part of your being so that you are under the and the of the Spirit of God which within you.
  22. Those who were filled on the day of Pentecost were a long while before they were .
  23. The only way we can produce the fruit of the Holy Spirit is by being by the .
  24. The Holy Spirit is able to come upon our minds and give us , and capacity, and we otherwise would not have.
  25. Spirit-given preaching is the kind that men.
  26. The Spirit changes men from to .
  27. What three attitudes do men have toward their possessions?
    A.

    B.

    C.
  28. The first thing the filling of the Holy Spirit will do for you is to your so you can God when He to you.
  29. When a Christian gets filled with the Spirit of God, it him up so he can what God and what God is trying to him to and where God wants him to .
  30. The second thing the filling of the Holy Spirit will do for you is to your .
  31. If we could but see men as they —lost, condemned, dead, hell-bound—we would have a for them that would cause us to for them, and to them.
  32. In the next place the filling of the Spirit will loosen our
  33. The Holy Spirit is the world’s best teacher.
  34. The Spirit gives power.
  35. He will give us a for .
  36. The next thing the Holy Spirit will do is to give you the of the Holy Spirit.
  37. When we bear the of the Spirit will flow through us to others.
  38. The trouble of our day is that we have many potentially big Christians who are not on to God’s .
  39. The Holy Spirit alone has the power to revive Christians and start fire burning in hearts.
  40. The meaning of “out of his belly” is out of his , his being.
  41. We ought to be so full of the Spirit of God that every time touches us, he will get “a little ” from us.
  42. The very first essential for the filling of the Spirit is to have
  43. To have the power of the Spirit we must and for it.
  44. The second essential is .
  45. We let rob us of the filling of the Spirit.
  46. When we are willing to be with our sins, to up, to up, to let Almighty God take over, we can have God’s .
  47. God will give you something infinitely greater than anything you in order to His .
  48. Not only must we have concern and cleaning, but we are filled with the Spirit by .
  49. If you want the Spirit of God to come into your life in power, you must have in .
  50. The Bible says under certain conditions we will have the filling of the Holy Spirit, so for it, and from that moment be you it.
  51. By faith we should claim the power of the Spirit for the of God.
  52. God’s are unlimited. His promises of power is .
  53. We claim the filling of the Spirit not only by but also by .
  54. The last step in receiving the filling is .
  55. We must be willing to or whatever God wants us to be or we be with His Spirit.
  56. If God is to us, to possess us, to us, to use us, we must be willing to or , to or , to or , to be or , yea, to Do His Will.
  57. Do you want to be filled? Then you can have it by:
    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.
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Answer the following as you read:

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THE MARKS OF A CARNAL CHRISTIAN

  1. Two kinds of Christians are clearly described in Scripture:
    A.
    B.
  2. Two natures, the and the , are engaged in deadly warfare within the Christian. Sometimes the nature has the upper hand, and the believer enjoys a momentary joy, peace, and rest. But more often the nature is in control, and there is little enjoyment of spiritual blessings.
  3. There is a divided control over the Christian’s life that always spells . The Christian never grows up. He remains a mere “ in Christ.”
  4. The average Christian does not go firsthand to the for . He does not the Holy Spirit to give him the strong meat of the Word. He is looking only to teachers for his spiritual nourishment. He is and In this weakened state he is open to all forms of spiritual . He is an easy for temper, pride, impurity, selfishness.
  5. The influence of the carnal Christian is always . Because of the inconsistency of his life he is to others to Christ or a true to other Christians. He is, therefore, a branch in the Vine.
  6. Anything which feeds or pampers the , the animal part of man, is “the of the .” Anything that merely to the fashions of the world, stimulates for possessions, keeps the fixed on the seen rather than the unseen is “ of the .” Anything that exalts self, fosters and pomp and that clips the wings of the soul so that it grovels in the dust of earth instead of soaring heavenward is “the of .”
  7. There is abundant for the Christian who turns to God and cries out for from the wretched captivity of carnality into the glorious liberty of true spirituality.
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MARKS OF A SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN

  1. The life of the spiritual Christian is a life of:
    A. abiding
    B. habitual
    C. constant into
    D. power
    E. devoted
    F. winsome
  2. The Christian does not continue in the practice of known, willful sin, so he lives in the unclouded of presence. His with the Father is by the gnawing consciousness of hands, by the pricking of a conscience, or by the condemnation of an heart.
  3. The Christian does not continue in the practice of known, willful sin, so he lives in the unclouded of presence. His with the Father is by the gnawing consciousness of hands, by the pricking of a conscience, or by the condemnation of an heart.
  4. The of the is an all inclusive one. The over sin is a through Christ which is ours as we claim it.
  5. Victory means a definite with the disposition to sin. Real victory makes a in the recesses of the that transforms the inner disposition and attitude as well as our outward deed and act.
  6. On Calvary’s cross Christ to set us free from sin. To make that perfect victory permanent He has sent the to indwell and control believers. As he yields himself to its mighty power, the man is delivered from the law of and .
  7. There is to be a in our likeness to Christ—it is to be glory glory. The nature is ever reaching out after and laying hold of that which is spiritual in order that it may become more .
  8. The “ of the ” is the full orbed symmetrical of the Lord Jesus Christ in which there is no lack and no excess. In the spiritual Christian all graces in such winsome attractiveness that the world sees Christ living within.
  9. The power to do “the same works and even greater” is not the power which in anything . On the contrary, it is the of , the Holy Spirit which is fully at our disposal when we are fully yielded to Him.
  10. The spiritual man takes as his and determines to walk as He walked. Christ lived a life of . He was the world but not it. He had the closest contact with the world but conformity to it or contagion from it. The spiritual man aspires to a similar of .
  11. Scriptural holiness is not “ ” but it is ” in the sight of God. We are to be “preserved ” unto His coming, and we shall be “presented ” at His coming.
  12. Holiness is, then, a of love for God. It is Christ, our Sanctification, as Life of our life. It is Christ, the Holy One, us, living, speaking, walking.
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TWO CONTRASTING SPHERES

  1. God has dealt with the whole human race through two representative men, and . By Adam entered into the world; by Christ came to all men; the is in Adam; the is in Christ.
  2. The flesh is the whole man, spirit, soul and body, from God. It is the life of , whether good or bad, received through generation. It is that I am as a son of . God sees good in the flesh.
  3. Regeneration opens the way for the believer to enter the sphere of the . At the birth the Holy Spirit the human spirit and then makes it his home.
  4. The foundation of life in the natural man is foursquare:
    A. self-
    B. self-
    C. self-
    D. self-
  5. Deliverance from the old sphere “in Adam” and entrance into the new sphere “in Christ” demands the of . No house can entertain masters. If the Lord Jesus is to take the and over the human personality, then “the old man” must resign. God has condemned and sentenced “the old man” to . That sentence was carried out on cross.
  6. Our “old man” was with Christ. Paul says, “I have been with Christ.” He did not try to himself nor did his take place at some special point in his spiritual experience through some act on his part. It did not take place in Arabia, or even when he was caught up to the heaven. But the death of the old “I” took place on the when died there.
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THE CHRISTIAN’S CHOICE—SELF OR CHRIST

  1. If any Christian, however full-grown, says he has no sin and is entirely freed from his old nature, he himself. He does not his family or his friends, least of all does he God. He only himself.
  2. In every believer is that nature that can do nothing but . Inherent within it is a threefold inability: it cannot , obey or God. By physical birth we possess this God- , God- , God- nature which is bent on the gratification and the glorification of self.
  3. In every believer is a nature which sin. Inherent within it is a threefold capacity: it can and does , obey and God. By spiritual birth we possess this God- , God- , God- nature which is bent on the gratification and glorification of Christ.
  4. God makes no attempt to improve this nature, because it is ; nor to subject it, for it is ; nor yet to it, because He has a far more wonderful way of conquest over it.
  5. God has given us clear and definite instruction regarding our part in the dethronement of self:
    A. We must the .
    B. We must to the of the man.
    C. We must with the in keeping the old man crucified.
  6. Through the crucifixion of the old man the believer is from sin’s and from sin’s . Every claim of sin has been and he has been made to sin. has made this an accomplished fact. makes it an experimental fact. Through the old man was put on the cross and buried in the tomb. Through he will be kept there.

    7. If Christ is the Way, we waste time traveling any other.

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CHRIST OUR LIFE

  1. Christ desires to be not only our Saviour and our Lord, but to be the very of our Death is the gate to Co-crucifixion opens the door to co- . Identification with in His and is but the beginning of the believer’s union with Him in an endless life.
  2. The moment a penitent sinner puts in Christ as Saviour he steps out of life “in ” and enters into life “in .” Through the ages upon ages to come he will be “ Christ.” To be “ Christ” determines the Christian’s , privileges and For to be “ Christ” is to be He is, to be He is, and to what He has.
  3. To be “in Christ” is to be what Christ . Christ, the Head of the body, and the Christian who is a member of that body have life. The of the human body is its life. The life that is in in the heavenlies is the same life that is in the on earth.
  4. To be “in Christ” is to what Christ has. All that Christ we possess. Every spiritual in Him—joy, peace, victory, power, holiness—is ours here and now. If we are children of God, then we are His and heirs with Christ, so that all the has given to His Son, the shares with us.
  5. To be a Christian means to have the divine which was planted in our innermost at the birth out into growing conformity to His perfect life. It is to be daily “ into his from glory to glory.”
  6. To be a Christian is to have Christ the Life of our , hearts and so that it is He who through our minds through our hearts and through our wills. It is to have Christ our in ever increasing measure until we have no life apart from Him.
  7. “Christ in you” was the passion of all missionary service. had but one aim and goal in every form of work done—that might be in every convert.
  8. 5.8 The spiritual history of every Christian could be written in two phrases, “ in ” and “ in .” In God’s reckoning Christ and the Christian become in such a way that is both in the heavenlies and upon earth. The is both on earth and in the heavenlies. Christ in the heavenlies is the part of the Christian. The Christian on earth is the part of Christ.
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THE SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE

  1. God’s Word proves its and for every Christian. Whoever has Christ’s life in any measure may have it in its .
  2. Christ promised to bestow a upon the one who received Him as Saviour, which would bring perfect and to him and then through him in rich into other lives.
  3. Christ told the disciples that He was to live in them as an abiding Presence. There would be a divine of Life supernatural in quality and a divine of Life supernatural in power. They were to as He and to as He . To provide power for such a life He promised that “another ” would come to take up His permanent abode in them.
  4. The one the Sin-bearer as his Saviour he is the Spirit and the Spirit is him. It is to the Son and to the Spirit.
  5. It is God’s purpose that Christian should live a life of deep, growing . The Holy Spirit lives within us to accomplish this in three ways:
    A. He through the the fullness to be had in the glorified Christ.
    B. He in our hearts a for this fullness.
    C. Then He as the for its from Him to us.
  6. Be filled with the Spirit” is every Christian’s:
    A. By virtue of the new birth he has the to such . It is not the privilege of a few but the of .
    B. No one can live a truly life without the fullness.
    C. The fullness of the Holy Spirit is not optional but .
  7. There should be a definite time when we are “ ”for the first time. There should be infillings that we may be full and yet ever taking in and of the fullness of God. To be spiritual one must be and kept .
  8. Scripture clearly teaches a threefold manifestation of the Holy Spirit’s fullness:
    A. The of Christ’s Abiding
    B. The of Christ’s Life
    C. The of Christ’s Power
  9. The of the Holy Spirit is the only thing that will change a carnal Christian into a spiritual one. On the day of Pentecost the apostles were with the Holy Spirit. At Pentecost was and Christ was enthroned and became the Life of their life.
  10. The Holy Spirit, a well of Water, a continuously up springing , is in every Christian. There is then no need of . The promise is you “shall thirst.” Drink until you are , until you are , yea, until you . The fullness of the Holy Spirit is for who and who of the Water of Life.
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THE PREREQUISITE TO FULLNESS: CLEANSING

  1. Grieve is a word. To grieve the Holy Spirit means that we are causing to Someone who us.
  2. The Holy Spirit’s names indicate His nature. He is the Spirit of:
    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.
    E.
    F.
    G.
    H.
    I.
    J.
  3. The Holy Spirit dwells within to us “to up into Christ in all things”; and to us daily “into to His image.” So anything in us which hinders Him from carrying out this purpose Him. Knowingly to permit anything which is to what the Holy Spirit Himself is to remain in your life must mean that you love more than you love Him Such grieves Him.
  4. 7.4 We “ ” the Spirit when we say “ ” to Satan when he lures us into sin. We ” the Spirit when we say ” to God when He woos us into sanctification and service. To bring the wholly into the of God is, perhaps, the Holy Spirit’s task.
  5. To grieve or to quench the Spirit is . He dwells within us to and us. The Holy Spirit brings out into the light the in our lives. The more completely He fills us the more perfect will be the and of sin.
  6. The Christian is in constant with The very tense of the verb shows that he never gets beyond the of the blood of Christ.
  7. God will accept no for He instantly detects a Sometimes a supposed confession is a confession of the fellow’s sin and a of oneself. Oftentimes a confession is but a one. Some top sin is mentioned while the sin is altogether .
  8. Some sins need to be confessed only to because against Him only have we sinned (Psalms 51:4). Other sins need to be confessed to against whom we have sinned (James 5:16). A confession of sin is sometimes necessary when the whole company of God’s people have been wronged (Joshua 7:19-25).
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THE BELIEVER’S PART IN BECOMING SPIRITUAL: YIELDING

  1. God has made the — but you must make the whether you will be Spirit-filled or not. There is a boundary line, the of every to , beyond which even God cannot go.
  2. The basic principle in a spiritual life lies in its . The Holy Spirit works to bring the Christian to the further of and to choose the sovereignty of Christ over his life by yielding to Him as Lord.
  3. Three statements in I Corinthians 6:19-20 reveal the basic motive in a yielded life:
    A. “Know ye not that your body is the of the Holy Ghost which is in you?”
    B. “What? Know ye that ye are your ?”
    C. “for ye are with a ?”
  4. Yielding is the definite transference of the undivided possession, control and use of the whole being, spirit, soul and body, from to , to whom it rightfully belongs by creation and by purchase.
  5. Self will relinquish nothing except under . So it is necessary to understand the full measurement of a life. Many of us think that God wants from us. God is a . What He desires most is with a person, so He wants . He asks first that we ourselves.
  6. Our yielding to Christ includes everything —intellect, heart, will; and everything —home, children, business, possessions, pleasures, friendships, time, money and life plus. It includes everything in our , present and . Sometimes it is easy to surrender the . But we His keeping power for the and we are full of for the .
  7. Yielding to Christ is a:
    A. act
    B. act
    C. act
  8. If your yielding is done then such an act need never be repeated—it is for time and for Through yielding you have that you are not your own, you have the ownership of your life to Christ. You have Him Lord, and you have placed yourself wholly His sovereign . To repeat this initial act implies and in ever having done it.
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THE BELIEVER’S PART IN BECOMING SPIRITUAL: FAITH

  1. God tells us that without it is to please Him. Some of Christ’s severest rebukes were to in His disciples. To have His , His , His fail to inspire faith grieved the Lord Jesus exceedingly.
  2. How we crowd Christ out of our lives by that triumvirate of evil— , doubt and ! Failing health, financial losses, overwhelming burdens, tempests of affliction and adversity come upon us, and we become to His presence, His Word and His works.
  3. There is no record in God’s Word and no instance in human experience where and have failed to respond to and . God would be to His nature, which is love, if He failed once to respond to real But faith is the thing in the world. Faith is just unto Jesus Christ and Him at His Word.
  4. God is and the of God shines as the brightness of the sun, whether you are warmed and refreshed by its rays or not.
  5. God never promised that the Christian would not have and . He did promise that with every temptation there would be a of , and that with every trial there would be to When our is most pressing, His strength is most perfect.
  6. Christ is able to to the uttermost. He has both the power to from sin and to from sinning.
  7. Our faith may falter but His never. We may be ready to give up in to the enemy. But Christ is not or . He will not give up in . He acknowledges victory on the part. He has assumed for us and He abideth .
  8. By virtue of your , you may be with the Spirit. There are three ways an honest man may gain possession of a thing—by , by , or as a .
  9. the gift and the giver. This is precisely what God wants you to do with this wondrous of the Holy Spirit’s .
  10. If you truly want to be filled with the Holy Spirit the of the Holy Spirit within you, and His as your birthright the gift, the Giver, and the gift immediately in winning souls to Christ.
  11. By an of you may receive the Spirit’s fullness. By a constant succession of of , the Spirit’s fullness becomes .
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Match the following Scriptures (KJV) with the best ABC word involved in Spiritual Growth:

1. Assurance (full assurance of faith) A. Isaiah 30:15
2. Baptism (Go…baptize…teach all nations) B. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
3. Conformity (to the image of His Son) C. 1 Corinthians 3:9
4. Dedication (present…as a living sacrifice) D. 1 Timothy 2:1-2
5. Edification (comfort…edify one another) E. Psalm 133:1
6. Faithfulness (not weary in well-doing) F. 2 Corinthians 3:2
7. Giver (more blessed than to receive) G. 1 Corinthians 9:24
8. Holiness (perfecting…in the fear of God) H. 2 Corinthians 7:1
9. Intercession (let it be made for all men) I. 1 Thessalonians 5:11
10. Judgment (judge ourselves…not be judged) J. Job 23:12
11. Kinship (knit together in love) K. Psalm 119:16
12. Laborer (laborers together with God) L. 1 Peter 5:8
13. Memory (not to forget God’s Word) M. 1 Corinthians 11: 31-32
14. Nourishment (more that necessary food) O. Colossians 2:2
15. Obedience (love Jesus, keep His commandments) O. Colossians 2:2
16. Prayerfulness (without ceasing) P. Acts 20:35
17. Quietness (shall be your strength) Q. Romans 8:29
18. Race (run, that you may obtain) O. Colossians 2:2
Soulwinning (fishers of men) S. Matthew 4:19
20. Testimony (epistles, known and read by all) T. Hebrews 10:22
21. Unity (good and pleasant to dwell in) U. Romans 12:1
22. Vessel (to show excellency of power…of God) V. Matthew 28:19-20
23. Watchfulness (be sober and vigilant) W. 2 Corinthians 4:7
24. eXcitement (do it heartily, as to the Lord) X. Luke 24:32
25. Yoke (learn of Jesus; His burden is light) Y. Colossians 3:23
26. Zeal (heart burning within) Z. Galatians 6:9
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