‘in-crowd’. They seek to impress, they don’t want to be humiliated.Beware, therefore, and fall not into the same trap! It’s very easy to yield to the temptation of wanting to impress,but know now that this is the way of the flesh. Seek not to impress with your abilities, but with My Spirit.When you are weak, then you are strong. What makes you truly great is not the talent I have given you, but theanointing I give you whenever I am able to use you, speak & flow through. In doing so, you won’t have to rely onthe flesh anymore, for I will do it all.Where you can’t anymore, there I can. Where you end & come to the end of your capacities, there I begin & havea chance to start working – finally! – through you.Not by might nor by power – nor by man’s gifts, wit or prudence – but by My Spirit. Only if I enable you, youhave the strength to work these workings of My Spirit. The flesh is utterly incapable, useless a hindrance, anannoyance. It doesn’t cut the cake when you intend to do My work & the works of My Spirit. It’s got to be MySpirit in you!Everything is dead without the Spirit. All the perfection one can try to attain in the flesh, is dead & nothing,without the true life of My Spirit.Don’t just let the things you learn inform you, but
form
you, shape you into something greater. Learn to see withthe eyes of the spirit, not merely acknowledge data & accumulate information. Your old man, your fleshly old creature, is an abomination to Me. And in order to completely & fully become thatnew creature, you have to obey My Word & ‘be transformed by the renewing of your minds, presenting your bodies a living sacrifice, which is your reasonable service’!Stop seeing things merely with the eyes of the flesh. If you look at people with the eyes of the spirit, you will seetheir true nature. I can reveal things to you about people that they won’t even know about themselves! I canshow you things of the Spirit that will encourage you & will give you new strength to carry on. You have tried to soothe your hunger for beauty by means of the flesh. Often what you consider beautiful, isdownright ugly & an abomination to Me, while other times that which you consider ugly is beautiful in My sight.Learn to see with My eyes, and fully put on My mind.Open pathways are before you everywhere; if you will just open your spiritual eyes you will see them. In theflesh you only see the limitations, the confines, the ‘hole’ in which you see yourself. Seek Me, therefore, to liftyou out of your hole & onto the pathways of your choice.What looks like the difficult path to you may be in reality the easiest path, for when
you
can’t do it,
I’ll
do it
for
you. Quit struggling in the flesh & let Me take over!The road of utter trust is like death to the flesh... When it comes down to it, you’re either going the way of theflesh or the way of the spirit, which will require a complete break with relying on the flesh.The flesh battles in you, to get its way, to push its way through, to sway you & influence you to settle for thelesser option than My best....He that soweth to the flesh will reap the corruption of the flesh. The flesh corrupts. It corrupts the spirit &chokes the things that really count. Only the Spirit brings life! Your fleshly loss has been your spiritual gain. In losing your pride of life you have found Me, My voice, & ahumbler path. Long live the Spirit! And it does. It lives forever.In becoming partakers of the spiritual, the eternal, you’re taking on a very special role in this world, for you haveinherited that eternal, immortal ingredient, which marks you as different & makes you stick out from them.The less there is of you, the more the light shines through. You must decrease so that I can increase in you. Areyou willing to become a little bit less of yourself & a whole lot more of Me?I don’t need anyone who is strong in themselves, I need somebody weak, who in their own flesh can’t do it,somebody utterly dependent on Me. You’re not going to make it walking in the flesh, only if you rely utterly on My Spirit.(S.H.:) Give up your attempts to try it in the flesh & let the Lord do it completely.He’ll get so much better results than when you try to do it with just a little help from Him...Seek Me and the truth, the
real
picture more desperately, for you cannot rely on your own minds. You cannotrely on your eyes and on your physical senses, much less that which you deem to be your own knowledge.That’s your struggle: flesh or spirit. Every day, every hour & every minute you have to make the choice &decide. And it takes faith to choose the Spirit, the invisible... Especially when that which I, the Lord of the Spiritask of you is hard for you to do, and that which the Lord of this world uses to distract you is so attractive.’The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak:’ The spirit stands for your willingness, and even comes from MySpirit, which works in you, both, to will & to
do
that which is My good pleasure. I have begun the good work inyou, and I am the One to complete it. But the flesh is what hinders you. It stands for weakness. That which isconsidered strength in the world is actually a flaw, a handicap if you want to do the works of the Spirit.Success in the flesh profiteth nothing. If I don’t anoint your works to be accepted by the world, then it is My willfor you to utterly dedicate all you’ve got to the Spirit, and there you will find strength that they who trust in theflesh know not of.This constant struggle of the flesh to crowd out of your life the things which are important to Me, by the things
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