Anything You Need

"Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness" (Ephesians 4:24)

God holds no mental reservations about any of us when we become His children by faith. When He forgives us, He trusts us as though we had never sinned. When satan comes around to taunt me about my past sins, I remind him that everything that had been charged against me came from him, and now everything I have - forgiveness and peace and freedom - I have freely received from my Lord Jesus Christ!

As long as you remain on this earth, God has not completed His work in you. The Spirit of God will help you discern when the chastening hand of God is upon you. But if it is the devil trying to tamper with your Christian life and testimony, dare to resist him in the victorious power of the living Christ.

God has said to us, "Whatever your need, just come to the throne of grace. Anything you need, you may have!" Why not believe Him and exercise the dominion He has given you? 

We are compared with that we could be, not just what we should be. Anything we ought to be we can be. Anything that God has declared that we should be we can be.

~A. W. Tozer~

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The Christ Question

"And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of Man" (Revelation 1:13)

Those celebrated European painters, whose works adorn the world's great art galleries, undoubtedly did their best to depict our Lord. They were limited, however, by their finite concepts of the Subject. To be frank, I do not want to hold in my mind an unworthy concept of my divine Saviour. We Christians should earnestly desire the Holy Spirit to sketch a true and transforming portrait of Jesus Christ across our innermost beings! Our delight should be in the assurance that Christ lives within us, moment by moment. And that assurance must come from God's holy Word.

Do you personally desire with me that the Holy Spirit will dip His brush and begin to paint across the canvas of our souls a living portrayal of Jesus Christ, complete with blood and fire?

Until you receive Christ as God's Messenger and Channel of all blessings, you have not met the God of redemption. The very first step in the Christian life is to come to Christ, to receive Christ, to become united to Christ, and to find Christ the Channel, Condition and Source of every blessing. The question for every man is the Christ question.

~A. W. Tozer~