Summer
1991
A Call to a Deeper Consecration
Beulah Skinner
Our LORD is a quickening Spirit (1 Cor 15:45). He is bringing
forth from within us a new creation - Christ only, nothing
of self. His disciples fully experienced the immensity of
Christ being manifested in their lives, as they surrendered
ALL to Him. We also are to grasp this greatness of Christ
through the revelation of the Holy Spirit, as we surrender
all to Him and open our heart to receive HIM.
His goal is that we come to full Sonship, or spiritual maturity.
We are called to leave the ground of humanity, and come to
the level of spirituality where we live above being motivated
by our physical senses and the circumstances of our daily
lives. Unless this is first settled by our committing the
totality of our life to the cross, dying to our self life
and yielding up our resurrected life to the power, and to
the intention of the Holy Spirit, Christ will never be rightly
manifested through us.
Once we have fully yielded our lives to Him, we will begin
to experience, from deep within us, the spontaneous welling
up of the RISEN Christ life. His life will be fully manifested
through us as we present ourselves unto God as alive from
the dead, withdrawing ALL of our members from the demands
of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
ALL this is contingent upon the abiding presence of the HOLY
SPIRIT. We cannot move FOR Him, unless HE has first moved
within us. The BLESSED HOLY ONE who dwells within must be
given the management of our lives. And, at the same time,
He will dwell without to enfold us in the atmosphere of HIS
protective are. For behind all action is to be the supreme
consciousness of the INDWELLING PRESENCE OF JESUS HIMSELF,
through HIS HOLY SPIRIT.
If we are truly sent by HIM, we will be clothed with HIS
strength, and enabled by HIS grace! The same BLOOD that freed
us from our sins is at work, that we might be freed from the
prison of self. The Holy Spirit is at work, drawing us to
the cross for the crucifixion of our self life. He is dealing
with us in the perfecting our motives and desires, that there
may well up from within our innermost being only one desire
- TO DO HIS WILL! To be the love-slave of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to breathe in HIS Resurrection LIFE; raised out of the mind
of the flesh into the mind of the Spirit. We are to experience
the transforming power of GOD, liberating us from the blinding
master of our senses into the Spirit of Liberty in Christ
Jesus.
All of our natural propensities, our appetites, together
with our wills and emotions must die on the lower plane, if
they are to be resurrected spiritually for use on the Higher
Plane. They are to daily remain surrendered to HIS HOLYSPIRIT,
recognizing that our Cross-death is the only doorway to LIFE
in HIM.
As we confess the LORDSHIP of JESUS CHRIST in faith and obedience;
ceasing from our own strength and fully leaving all things
in HIS HAND, He will make us one with Himself.