The Full Blessing of Pentecost: Preface

The Full Blessing of Pentecost
- The One Thing Needful

By Andrew Murray

Preface
(Excerpts)

In all our study of the work of the blessed Spirit, and in all our pursuit of a life in His fulness, we shall ever find the sum of Christ's teaching in those wonderful words:

"He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."

It is as we are convicted of the defectiveness of our faith in Christ,
and what He has promised to do in saving and keeping us from sin,
and as we understand that believing in Him means a yielding up of the whole heart and life and will, to let Him rule and live within us,
that we can confidently count upon receiving all that we need of the Holy Spirit's power and presence.

It is as Christ becomes to us all that God has made Him to be,
that the Holy Spirit can flow from Him and do His blessed work of leading us back to know Him better and to believe in Him more completely.

It is as we yield our hearts to the leading of the Spirit to know Christ and look at Him,
and believe in what is revealed,
that the Spirit can take possession of us.

The Spirit is given to reveal Christ, and every revelation of Christ fully accepted gives the Spirit room to dwell and work within us.

This is the sure way in which the promise will be fulfilled:
"He that believeth on Me, rivers of living water shall flow out of him."

May God lead us to this simple and full faith in Christ, our great High Priest and King in the heavens, and so into a life in the fulness of the Spirit.











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