INDWELT TO BE FILLED By Miles Stanford

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INDWELT TO BE FILLED *
*By Miles Stanford*
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But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit
of God dwell in you" (Rom. 8:9).

The believer knows that he is indwelt by the Holy Spirit on the
testimony of the written Word; others know when the believer is filled
with the Holy Spirit by the growing manifestation of the Living Word.

"There are believers who need the reminder that deeper than mind and
feeling and will, deeper than the soul, where these have their seat, in
the depths of the renewed spirit, there comes, at re-birth, the Holy
Spirit to dwell forever. His indwelling is there, first of all, and all
through, to be recognized by faith. Even when I cannot see the least
evidence of His working, I am quietly and reverently to believe that He
dwells in me. In that faith I am restfully and trustfully to count upon
His working, and to wait for it. In that faith I must very distinctly
deny my own wisdom and strength, and in childlike self-abnegation depend
upon Him to work.

"His first workings may be so feeble and hidden that I can hardly
recognize them as coming from Him; they may appear to be nothing more
than the voice of conscience, or the familiar sound of some Bible truth.
Here is the time for faith to hold fast the Master's promise and the
Father's gift, and to trust that the Holy Spirit is within and will
guide. Out of the hidden depths His power will move and take possession
of mind and will, and the indwelling in the hidden recesses of the
spirit will grow into a being filled with His fullness." - A.M.

"Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His" (Rom.
8:9).