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Pastor Bill Marks, Christian Fellowship, Potchefstroom, Tel: (018) 293 1608 or 079 311 6515
f you were going on an The Holy Spirit may also be Christ as our Saviour, the Holy
expedition to climb Mount compared to the “Breath of Spirit regenerated our spirits.
IEverest and reached the God”. As Christians, we should He is the One who brought
height of 8 000 m, you would become addicted to His back to us the Breath of Life as
have to wear an oxygen tank “smell” - His holy and life- citizens of the Kingdom of
and mask, for without supple- giving Presence, as we pro- God.
mentary oxygen you would not gress higher and higher in our The Holy Spirit is our personal
be able to think clearly when walk with God. Tutor, for He teaches us the
you need to make quick and Genesis 1:2 - The Holy Spirit truth about who we are in
accurate decisions because of was hovering: meaning He was Christ (John 14:16, 26). He also
low temperatures and steep sweeping or moving over the teaches us how to stand in
slopes. earth. The Holy Spirit gave life authority as true sons of God
The air at very high altitudes to what did not exist, and was (Luke 16:16).
smells completely different to there at creation. No matter what trouble or
the air of lower altitudes. In Genesis 2:7 God breathed difficulty comes your way,
People become addicted to into man’s nostrils the breath remember that you are a
this smell and they need more of life (NISMAT CHAYIM), and ROYAL CITIZEN of the KING!
and more of this air to make man became a living being, but Through the power of the Holy
them go HIGHER AND HIGHER when Adam and Eve disobeyed Spirit residing in you, you are
up the mountain. Roderick God they were cut off from the able to overcome and live a life
Mackenzie said: "People climb heavenly realm. of POWER AND VICTORY!
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ehold, with great love have I but I say unto thee, that if ye will
chosen thee and made thee hearken unto Me, I will reveal My will to
BMine, saith the Lord. Yea, My thee more fully so that ye may know
heart is drawn out toward thee, and I more clearly how vital you are in My
would minister to thee. purpose. There is work to be done and I
I wait for thee to turn from everything need you as a vessel through which to
else to Me alone. I want you to give Me work. Not a vassal, but a vessel. I want
all of yourself. I want the real you. The to do a beautiful work.
more you can bring to Me of your true There will be inconveniences to be
self, the more I can give you of My true borne, self-pleasing to be laid aside,
Self. sacrifices and pain, but what a blessed
If ye come to Me with any kind of cloak reward I have in store! Yes, in store for
over your soul, just to this extent ye you, if you are able to let Me use you in
hinder Me from fully opening My heart the way which I desire to do.
to you. I am neither disturbed by Ye are not unworthy; ye are not
imperfections nor impressed with piety. unprepared. Ye have no reason to hold
People look upon the outward, but I am back unless it be that your love for Me is
only concerned with the heart; for I too small. If this be the only hindrance,
know that whenever I can occupy the draw closer to Me, and I shall pour My
heart, all will be working toward love out upon you and thus shall your
perfection of the outer man… own affection for Me be deepened and
Ye are Mine, saith the Lord. Ye are not perfected. Lo, I wait for you. Come to
your own. With a very great price have I Me. - Come Away My Beloved by
purchased thee unto Myself. I am not Frances J. Roberts, Christian Art
dismayed that ye do not comprehend, Publishers, 1997.

n April, the Sunday School teacher symbolize new life. But Billy shouted
asked all eight children in her class that his rock had moss on it, and moss
Ito hide within an empty container a was new life. The teacher agreed.
small object that represented life in A butterfly flew from the third container,
Spring. and another child bragged that her
Not wanting to embarrass eight-year- choice was best of all.
old Stephen, whose mental retardation The fourth container was empty. "That
was becoming more manifest, the has to be Stephen's," thought the
teacher suggested that the children all teacher, quickly reaching for the fifth.
place their unlabelled containers on her "Please, don't skip mine!' Stephen
desk. Since she feared that Stephen interjected. "But it's empty." "That's
might not have caught on, she decided right," said Stephen. "The tomb was
that she would open them. empty, and that is new life for
The first had a tiny flower. "What a everyone."
lovely sign of new life!" "I brought that Later that summer, Stephen's condition
one!" the donor exclaimed. Next came a grew worse, and he died. On his casket
rock. "That must be Stephen's," the at the funeral, mourners found eight
teacher thought, since rocks do not containers. They were ALL EMPTY!