by T. Austin-Sparks
First published in "A Witness and A Testimony" magazine 1931, Vol. 9-1 - 9-2.
Messages as spoken.
The Lord is wanting to bring us into a wealthy place, and He is working in the energies of the Holy Spirit with that in view. He has foreknown and always acts in relation to that foreknowledge; the inheritance is in view, and He by the Holy Spirit would bring us into that full place in Christ. The large place in life or vocation depends upon whether we have the Lord as our LIFE, and not things or people as such, but HIMSELF. Our emancipation into the fulness of God's provision for us in Christ Jesus, depends upon how far we have let the Holy Spirit sovereignly apply the Cross of the Lord Jesus to all that is not of Himself, until it is only the Lord. This is the Spirit's work, and is not power or sanctification as such, not in a thing, it is the LORD; and when it is the Lord, you have come to your possession and can go in and possess.
