Issue 27

Living Water Newsletter for November 26, 2007

QUOTES & STUFF

Revival
Without fail, every true Holy Spirit revival in the long history of the Church has centered around the Word of God and the preaching of the Cross and the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ. There has never been a true revival without these.

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Arthur Wallis
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or cleverness of expression, but operates "in demonstration of the Spirit and of power."

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Samuel Chadwick
The sign of Christianity is not a cross but a tongue of fire.

The swarms of locusts have devastated the land of Egypt in the last plague just before the destruction of the firstborn, and Pharaoh says to Moses, "Go, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be kept back. Let your little ones also go with you."

And Moses replies, "Our livestock also shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind. For we must take some of them to serve the LORD our God, and even we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there" (Exodus 10:26).

WOW! What a statement! That is truly high doctrine for us. Listen to it again. "We shall leave nothing behind, for when we go out from Egypt to another land we must serve the LORD our God, but we will not know with what we must serve Him until we get there." They must bring everything out of Egypt so that when God tells them what to serve Him with, they will have it with them. So they must leave nothing behind! Not one hoof!

When you received Christ as your Lord and Savior, and were translated out of the kingdom of darkness, out of the world, into the kingdom of God's beloved Son, did you bring everything out with you? Or did you leave some of yourself in the world, with its lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and pride of life? (1 John 2:15-16).

Child of God, maybe those things you left behind are the very things that God wants you to use to serve Him—maybe even the things He wants you to use to bring your spouse, children, loved ones, friends to Him. You'll never know until you bring every part of yourself out of the world—with not one hoof left behind.

"Yes," Paul replied, "that's exactly what I mean—I can do all things . . ."

"Well," interrupted the old preacher, "if you really mean that, then I have to say that you are a very boastful person, maybe even a braggart. And I really thought that you were more humble than . . ."

Paul cut in on him, "Wait a minute, you did not allow me to finish my sentence."

"Oh, I'm sorry," said the old preacher, "please continue."

"I can do all things," said Paul, "through Christ who strengthens me."

The old preacher pondered this for a moment, and then said, "Oh, Paul, I truly do apologize. I did not realize there were two of you!"

This week Beverlee will be doing an audio CD of excerpts from the Interior Castle book she revised, and I'll be concentrating on revising R. A. Torrey's book, The Holy Spirit: Who He Is and What He does.  The book isn't long enough for a Pure Gold Classic, so I must find some additional writings by Torrey to fill it out.  As always, we appreciate your prayers to help us with our work.

Harold J. Chadwick