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Jesse
Penn-Lewis (1861-1927
The Divine
Commitment to Jesse Penn-Lewis
- The Magna Carta
of Spiritual Liberty - Romans 6
"The sixth chapter of Romans is the Magna Carta of spiritual liberty
because it reveals God's plan of deliverance through the Cross of Christ.
Every babe in Christ needs to know the truth of this passage of Scripture.
Romans 6 very clearly explains the basis of deliverance...
"Only by understanding what it means to have died with Christ (Romans
6:3-8), and what it means to put to death the 'deeds of the body'
(Romans 8:13), can the believer live and walk and act through the Spirit,
and in this way become a spiritual man..." (Releasing Your Spirit,
p. 35)
- Her Commission:
to Proclaim the Message of the Cross
"I saw that God had given me a specific commission to proclaim the message
of the Cross, at a time when it had almost ceased to be referred to
in the pulpits. I saw also that God miraculously opened doors before
me to proclaim this message, which no man could shut..." (Garrard, Mary
N., Jesse Penn-Lewis a memoir, p. 266) "...God had committed
this message to me, and at whatever cost, I must go forward." (ibid.,
p. 267)
- Constituting
Experiences
- A revelation
of her need to be broken (during her work at the Richmond Y.W.C.A.
in 1890) "After a time I became conscious that the spiritual results
were not equivalent to the labour of the work. I began to question
whether I knew the fulness [sic]of the Holy Spirit. ...My
weekly Bible Class was a great trouble to me, for I had no power
of utterance. Organising [sic] work was much easier, but meetings
were a sore trial. Self-consciousness almost paralysed [sic] me...so
all the people I could discover who were filled with the Spirit,
I invited to Richmond...to come and speak to my girls. I was so
anxious that they should get this blessing. I settled it in my mind
that I was not the channel. I was not the one to speak. Until one
day the Lord turned on me and said: 'Why not yourself? These
people have quite enough to do without coming to do your work! Why
not you the channel?' but I said, I cannot speak! It takes me a
whole day to prepare for my class: what can I do? It is impossible!
...
'He waited,' she wrote afterwards, 'until I came to an end of my
own energy and strength. How I taught... How full
my Bible was of notes, and how carefully I prepared a dish of spiritual
food for them! 'Food' all obtained second-hand from other books...But
they did not change much in their lives! I thought it was the fault
of the girls, until the Lord spoke to me and said, 'It is yourself'!
'But, Lord, I am consecrated ! What can it be in me? I give
time every morning to read and pray: I have put everything right
in my life as far as I know.' But the Lord still said, 'It is YOU.'
And then He began to break me, and there came to me the terrible
revelation that every bit of this activity, this energy, this indomitable
perseverance, was myself after all, though it was hidden
under the name of 'consecration.'" (ibid., pp. 18-19)
- The experience
of the fullness of the Spirit (two years after she sought it)
"On March 18th , 1892, travelling alone in a railway
carriage from Wimbledon to Richmond (Surrey), it seemed as if suddenly
my spirit broke through into the spiritual world and I was caught
up into the bosom of the Father! For days afterwards I felt that
I was as a babe lying in the Father's bosom with all the world below
lying in darkness whilst I was in Light, clear as crystal and so
pure that every speck of sin stood out in blackness... It was my
Baptism with the Holy Ghost. (ibid., pp. 27-28)
- Delivered from
a "spiritually self-absorbed" life and from reliance upon spiritual
gifts to a life in God Himself (3 months later)
"For three months after this sudden breaking through into the supernatural
world, I lived in a very heaven of joy and light and gladness, and
the very Name of Jesus was so sweet that the sound of it caused
me to melt into tears, and to be filled with exquisite joy. Then
came the gradual cessation of this heavenly experience, and-the
time of danger. I began to dread the loss of my experience, and
to seek now the 'experience' that seemed to be slipping from
me. At this point, I was shown, by the mercy of God, the path of
the Cross, and the wisdom of God in withdrawing the gifts of God,
for the soul to rest entirely in Him, and not in joy or ecstatic
communion, which made me spiritually self-absorbed, and apt to pit
others not on my plane of spiritual life....
"But when I saw that the loss of this spiritual delight and ecstasy
meant fruit, through death and a life in God Himself above
His gifts, I gladly chose the path of the Cross and consented to
walk in the night of faith to that goal where God would be All in
All." (ibid., p. 28)
- Experiencing
the truth of God's work, the way of victory
"The last week in
Russia [1898] was a week of conflict for the land. The vessel is broken
as the mighty river breaks through.... There was no resistance to the
message - the souls drank it in, so it was nothing outward. But God
gave me to understand then, clearer than ever before, that the conflict
becomes more the dislodging of the hosts of darkness from the atmosphere;
taking the ground in the Name of the Lord, and leaving the atmosphere
occupied by the hosts of light, so that the Holy Spirit is free to work
unhindered.
"That last week the pressure on my spirit grew....
"Then I understood that, clothed in the 'armour of light,' God sends
us to the dark places of the earth, to set our foot down and take
the victory in the Name of the Lord. That in the travail we may
be 'pressed down' until we are 'as good as dead,' in order that the
resurrection life of Jesus may lift us up in triumph to the place of
victory, 'far above all.' Then the hosts of darkness are defeated and
the Spirit of Life can work un-hindered in the souls around us. Blessed
be God!" (ibid., pp. 147-148)
- A Mature Experience
and Exhortation to Spiritual Children
Perpetual (unceasing) prayer keeps our spirit open to God and we abiding
in Him
"'Pray...and do not faint.'[Luke 18:1] Seems to me that the
pressure in the atmosphere is so great that one can only get power to
breathe, in a spiritual sense, by perpetual prayer, because prayer keeps
the spirit open God-ward. It seems as if we, who are expecting the Lord
to come, are like divers down in the ocean bed! We are encased in
Christ, with just a 'pipe' of the spirit open to the atmosphere
above, though which our heavenly 'air' can reach us. The weight of the
ocean would crush and kill the diver, were it to break through his casing,
or if the pipe were broken or choked. The Lord is truly our 'casing,'
our covering, as we abide in Him, and the awful ocean-weight of the
world's atmosphere cannot get in as we hide in Him, and keep the spirit
open by prayer to the heavenly air by which alone we can breathe and
live thought these awful days. Therefore- ' Pray...and do not faint.'
" (In a letter to some of her spiritual children in London during the
First World War, January 1916, ibid., p. 258)
Face to Face
Glimpses into the Inner Life of Moses the Man of God
- Purpose
of the book
- Addresses the
believers experience of direct fellowship with the Lord
"...let us turn to the history of Moses in order to gather instruction
in the 'vision of God,' and by glimpses into Moses' inner life see
how he was led from the court of Egypt to the 'Presence chamber'
of the kings." (Preface, pp. 7-8)
" 'Face-to-face' fellowship means that anywhere, at any moment,
we may have spiritual communion with Him who is invisible, and hear
His voice in our hearts speaking to us, across the blood-sprinkled
mercy-seat." (Preface, p. 9)
- Shows the process
through which Lord gains a true servant, using the experience of
Moses as the type.
- Chapter Titles
- Life Out
of Death
- The Crisis
and the Cross
- Self-Energy
and Failure
- The Flame
of Fire
- Self-Diffidence
and Loss
- The Faithful
Servant
- From Glory
to Glory
- "Face to
Face"
- Representative
Selections
- "Have we really
understood the 'first principles of Christ' in the message of His
cross?
"Just as the babe Moses was placed in the ark and committed to the
river, we, who as sinners are under the sentence of death, are placed
into Jesus Christ upon His cross. Henceforth we are to look at ourselves
as God looks at us: planted into Christ and crucified with Him;
redeemed from destruction, and, in the Ark Christ Jesus, carried
out of the old life into the new, to walk in newness of life." (Chpt.
1, Life Out of Death, p. 13)
- "...only from
the central throne of the will of a really conquered soul can God
work out His deepest purposes." (Chpt. 3, Self-Energy and Failure,
p. 23)
"It is always so when we are in line with God. His inward dealings
co-operated with His exterior workings to effect His will. If God
deals deeply with us to bring us inwardly to choose the path of
the cross, it will not be long before we shall find ourselves, unexpectedly
perhaps, in circumstances where our heart's choice is translated
into fact. Maybe by some act of our own, some apparent failure or
mistake, but suddenly all is changed." (ibid., p. 24)
Applying the type of Moses' failure when he first attempted to save
Israel (Exo. 2:14)
"...Let us thank God for our failures and rude awakenings. Far,
far better to have them now than to live in self-delusion and awaken
too late, to find at the judgment seat that we must 'suffer loss'
because we could not bear the truth.... Let us not blame the
people, as we are so often disposed to do, but rather let us
seek the light of God to know the cause of failure in ourselves,
that He may make us vessels unto honor, fit for His use." (ibid.,
pp. 29-30)
- The true and
effective servant of God
- Moses becoming
one with God in His purpose according to His promise to Israel
"
Jehovah had said, 'I will make of thee a great nation';
but glory at the cost of Israel, Moses did not want. His aim
was to bring the people into the promised land. He had so pleaded
and suffered for them that his whole heart was filled with intense
desire that they should obtain their inheritance.
"It is impossible to pray for others and not be consumed with
a deep longing to be poured out on their behalf." (Chpt. 8,
Face to Face, p. 74)
- Loss of
self-seeking and the fellowship of His sufferings (re: Moses
interaction with Jehovah in Exodus 32:32)
"In effect he offers to sacrifice, for the sake of Israel, every
reward for which he had surrendered the pleasures and treasures
of Egypt when he made his choice in the court of Pharaoh. He
had then chosen the path of the cross with a hope of ultimate
gain, but in close fellowship with God he had so entered the
divine attitude of sacrifice that all self-seeking has passed
away....
"It is only possible to understand the words of Moses by knowing,
and sharing, the attitude of Christ that lies behind them, for
they speak of an intensity of self-surrender that few of us
have known. Those who have entered into the afflictions of Christ
for His Church's sake know something of what they mean, for
they have learned in a measure to pour out their souls unto
death, in fellowship with Him. not as sharing in His atonement,
but in fulfillment of the law of sacrifice for life to flow
to others." (ibid., pp. 76-77)
- The reality
of a life within the veil
"He was veiled to
men but unveiled to God, for the veil was taken away when he went in
to speak to the Lord, and replaced when he came out to move among men.
What loneliness, what isolation this meant to him, for he could not
have close fellowship with Jehovah without separation from others. This
is what 'face-to-face' fellowship with God means. On the Godward side,
a life 'with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the
Lord,' and 'transformed into the same image from glory to glory' (2
Corinthians 3:18, ASV ), yet, by the unconscious, unavoidable
effect of the intimacy with God veiled to others and separated from
the things of the earth as one 'not living in the world'; veiled also
under the covering of the most ordinary life, 'as unknown, and yet well
known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed';
'pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto
despair;...always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life
also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh...' (2 Corinthians
6:9; 4:7-11, ASV)." (ibid., pp. 81-82)
Union with Christ in Death and Resurrection
Three Conference Addresses in Summarized Form
- Conference
Theme "My theme for this conference is 'The Deeper Aspect
of the Death of Christ, in Its Bearing upon the Present Hour.' It does
intensely bear upon the present hour, for unless we get down to the
bedrock meaning of the cross in actual, living experience, we shall
be unable to stand against the pressure of the world, the flesh, and
the devil in the present state of things in the world." (p. 87)
"There are three main aspects of the death of Christ which it is important
clearly to recognize as being distinct the one from the other. (1) The
first is the objective fact of our identification with Christ
in His death, so that we are said to have utterly and entirely died
in Him as our substitute. We find this set forth in Romans 6:1-6. (2)
The second is the subjective , or experiential, outworking of
the first - the 'making to die' the 'doings of the body,' which means
the application of the death of Christ to the believer 'through the
Spirit' (Romans 8:13). (3) Then we have the third aspect which follows
when the life of Christ imparted to us on the basis of our death-union
with Him is brought into full maturity. This we find referred to in
Philippians 3:10 where, in 'the power of His resurrection,' we
enter into 'the fellowship of His sufferings' for the Church, and are
made 'conformable to His death.' 'For those whom He foreknew, He also
predestined to be made like to the pattern of His Son, that many brethren
might be joined to Him, the Firstborn' (Romans 8:29, CH) . 'Like
in suffering' is the footnote to Conybeare's rendering, with
a reference to Philippians 3:10." (p. 88)
- Concerning Romans
6:11
"...The identification-union with Christ in His death is most truly
an 'attitude,' and a 'position' to be maintained in reliance upon the
Spirit of God in His enabling power; but it is also to be made a fact
in the believer's experience, just as much as his deliverance
from the burden of sin. The failure to see this explains the absence
of life-power even when maintaining the position and attitude of death,
brought about by the Holy Spirit by His co-working with the believer's
apprehension of the truth, has LIFE in it as well as 'death'. (p. 93)
- The Life Imparting
Death of Christ
Here Mrs. Penn-Lewis quotes Dr. Mabie
"... 'Christ's death was not an ordinary death,' but 'an entirely
new and original kind of death.' 'So far from being mere mortal
dying,' it might 'rather be called immortal dying'. 'It
contains,' he says, 'within itself the ENERGY OF A NEW ORGANIC UNION
WITH THE RISEN CHRIST HIMSELF.' He says, 'This death was such a
death that when, it its whole fact and energy, it comes to exercise
itself, it provides the dynamic need to enter into the believer
and empower him to live the new life to which the death of Christ
has committed him.' " (pp. 93-94)
- "You must have
two sides, the objective work of Christ for your faith, and
the subjective application of it to be wrought into experience
by the Holy Spirit." (p. 95)
"...We have talked
of resurrection 'life' but failed to get it in the abundant measure
we desire because we have not seen that that life is the death
of the God-Man, and will be communicated to us in dynamic power only
as we actually and continuously come under the power of that divine
death in its mighty working. (pp. 94-95)
"This is the sum of the whole matter at this stage: from the moment
you are 'planted' into the death of Christ, so that you grow into Christ
in His likeness, for the rest of your life 'His death' lies at the
root of your entire Christian life. ' If we have been grafted...'
A graft is put into a tree to become one with the tree, with the intention
that there shall be ONE LIFE flowing through both. Have you fully apprehended
the fact of your identification with Christ the moment that He died,
so that you have become a partaker of a vital union as that of a graft
with the tree into which it was grafted?" (pp. 97-98)
Releasing Your Spirit
(Original Publication Title Unknown)
- Chapter
Titles
- Spirit, Soul,
and Body
- The Carnal
Christian
- The Soul
of Man
- Dividing
Soul and Spirit
- Laws of the
Spirit-Life
- The Spiritual
Christian
- Representative
Quotations
- Spirit, Soul,
and Body (Chapter 1)
"We see, then, that these writers [Andrew Murray and G. H. Pember]
defined the soul in practical terms as the seat of the personality,
consisting of the will and the intellect or mind. It is a personal
entity that lies between the spirit, with its openness to the spiritual
world, and the body, with its openness to the outer world of nature
and sense. Moreover, the soul has the power of choice regarding
which world will dominate or control the entire man.
"When Adam walked in the Garden of Eden, God dwelt in his spirit
and dominated his soul - that is, his intellect, mind, and will.
Then, through the vessel of the soul, God shone in and through Adam's
'earthen vessel' (2 Corinthians 4:7) - his body - making
it luminous with His light, immune to cold and heat, and able to
perfectly fulfill the purpose for which it had been created." (pp.
17-18)
"The reason the Spirit of God quickens a believer's spirit into
new life is given in John 3:14-16. The God-man died on the cross
in the place of the sinner, so 'that whosoever believeth [into,
literal Greek] him should not perish, but have everlasting life'
(v. 16)." (p. 24)
- The Carnal
Christian (Chapter 2)
"Let me repeat at this point that the soul is the seat of the self-consciousness.
the personality, the will, and the intellect. It lies between the
spirit, the seat of the God-consciousness, and the body, the seat
of the sense- or world-consciousness. In Latin, the word for soul
is anima-it is the animating principle of the body. Gall
said that the soul derives its life, or animating power, from either
the spirit (the higher part) or the animal (the lower part)." (p.
29)
- The Soul of
Man (Chapter 3)
"...The soulish Christian is therefore one whose intellect and emotions
are still governed by the life of the first Adam, and not by the
life of the Second Adam." (p. 46)
"Christians often rely upon the intellect in order to grasp the
divine truths and to understand spiritual principles, yet the Scriptures
declare that the soulish man - and this includes even the believer
who is still soulish - cannot receive the things of the Spirit,
because they can only be discerned spiritually (1 Corinthians 2:14).
Therefore, we see professing believers with soulish wisdom handling
divine truths in a way that facilitates the work of demons in promoting
division among followers of Christ." (pp. 47-48)
"The way in which the ungoverned life of the soul causes division
is brought out in the Revised Version of the Bible, which translates
'separate themselves' in June 19 as 'make separations'
: 'These are they who make separations.' Fausset wrote in
his commentary, 'Arrogant setting up of themselves, as having greater
sanctity; and a wisdom and peculiar doctrine, distinct from others,
is implied.' " (p. 49)
"...Those who are dominated by their souls may be regenerated, but
at the same time they do not know the Spirit of God as a Person
who dwells in their spirits, who energizes them by His indwelling
power and uses them as messengers of God in the salvation of men."
(p. 55)
"It is therefore clear that the soul as well as the body has a certain
individual design to it. And this shape of the soul, if I may use
the expression, in its capacity for joy, love, grief, patience,
and so on, may be filled with a spiritual joy, as the life the Second
Adam is poured out into the vessel of the soul. Or, it may be filled
with a soulish joy, which moves into the vessel of the soul from
the lower life of the first Adam. In the latter case, the believer,
although he is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, is soulish to the degree
to which his soul-life is allowed to control these various capacities
of the soul. He may cling to a soulish joy and live in the realm
of his feelings, which is the seat of his self-consciousness, and
not in his spirit, the place of the God-consciousness. In this way,
he becomes one of those believers who are always seeking spiritual
'experiences' in the sense-consciousness, instead of in the purity
of the God-conscious realm alone - in the regenerated human spirit."
(pp. 56-57)
"It must be understood that the Fall came about because mankind
believed the lie of Satan, and that when Satan succeeded, a poison
entered the race of fallen man that runs through every element of
his being." (p. 59)
"...The way in which the Enemy works through the mind of a believer,
even when his heart and spirit are true to God, is a very serious
fact in the church of God today, for through the various ideas of
good men the Spirit of God is sometimes hindered even more than
through the unbelief and hatred of the world. And again, in the
realm of the emotions, the Adversary can stir up the soul-life to
such an extent that the deep work of the Spirit of God is quenched
and His voice is not heard." (p. 61)
- Dividing Soul
and Spirit (Chapter 4)
"The soul-life is summed up here [Matt. 16:24-25] in the word 'himself,'
when it involves self-centeredness in any form-self-pity, self-interest,
shrinking from personal suffering-in short, all that would make
a person 'save his life' rather than go forward in divine
strength to pour out his ' soul...unto death' (Matthew 26:38)
for others.
"Choosing the path of the cross for Christ's sake means losing one's
soul-life in order to gain the pure divine life of Christ. This
life of Christ, in its sacrificial nature, is to be poured out through
the vessel of the believers' soul for the blessing of the world."
(p. 74)
"Here [Luke 17:32-33] is the law of gaining the higher life of the
spirit: lose in order to gain....This attitude toward possessions
is sometimes a greater manifestations of divine grace than the sacrifice
of one's life....
"The undue absorption of the children of God with houses and other
possessions, to the neglect of the kingdom of God, is clearly an
aspect of the soul-life. This clinging, or preoccupation with necessary
earthly concerns, requires the surgery of the Great High Priest
in the dividing of soul and spirit, so that the affections of His
blood-bought ones may be set on things above (Colossians 3:2)."
(pp. 76-77)
"As the believer comprehends, with ever increasing clarity, the
fact of his death with Christ, his spirit is divided more and more
from his soul and is joined in essential union with the risen Lord,
who is a 'life-giving spirit' (1 Corinthians 15:45 RV). In
this way, he becomes 'one spirit' (1 Corinthians 6:17) with
Christ, and his human spirit becomes a channel through which the
Spirit of Christ may flow to a needy world." (pp. 81-82)
- Laws of the
Spirit-Life (Chapter 5)
- "What
does being perfect in Christ [Col. 1:28] mean for each part
of man's tripartite nature?
"Regarding the spirit, the triune God, who is Spirit (John 4:24),
takes up residence in the spirit of a believer, who is first
regenerated in his spirit by the Holy Spirit through the redemptive
work of the Son.
"Regarding the soul, as the triune God dwells in the spirit
of a believer, He manifests Himself through the vessel of the
believer's personality: the believer's will is completely one
with the will of God, his intellect is renewed and illuminated
by the Holy Spirit, and his emotions are under his total control
and use, yet are guided by the Spirit of God.
"Regarding the body, as the triune God dwells in the spirit
of a believer and manifests Himself through the avenue of his
soul, He keeps the believer's body under complete control (1
Corinthians 9:27); every part of the body yields quick obedience
as an ' instrument of righteousness' (Romans 6:13).
In this way, the outer man - the body - truly becomes a sanctuary
of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19).
"This is a picture of the spiritual believer who has grown to
the 'ripeness of maturity'; who is completely sanctified in
spirit, soul, and body; and who needs to be "preserved blameless"
by having the God of Peace dwell in the center of his being."
(pp. 86-87)
- Concerning
the believer knowing his/her spirit:
"In order to
walk in the realm of the spirit, a believer must know what is coming
from his own spirit and how to listen to the demands of his spirit
rather than quenching them. For example, suppose a feeling of heaviness
comes on his spirit, but he goes on working, putting up with the
pressure. He finds it hard to work, but he has no time to investigate
the reason for the heaviness. At last the weight becomes unendurable,
and he is forced to stop and see what is the matter. He should have
paid attention to the claims of his spirit when he first felt them;
then, in a brief prayer, he could have taken the weight to God and
refused all pressure from the Enemy.
"He must also be able to read his spirit and know at once when it
is no longer cooperating with the Holy Spirit, quickly refusing
all attacks that are drawing his spirit out of its stability of
fellowship with God. Moreover, he should know when his spirit is
being influenced by the poison of evil spirits. For example, he
should recognize the injection of sadness, irritability, complaining,
grumbling, fault finding, touchiness, bitterness, hurt feelings,
jealously, and so on, when they come directly from the Enemy to
his spirit. He should resist all sadness, gloom, and grumbling that
are introduced into his spirit, for the victorious life of a freed
spirit means joyfulness. This intrusion of various feelings and
emotions is not the manifestations of the works of the flesh, when
the believer is one who understands what it means to live according
to his spirit. However, it will quickly reach the sphere of the
flesh if it is not recognized and dealt with through sharp refusal
and resistance.
"In addition, a believer should know when his spirit is in the proper
position of control over his soul and body, and yet not driven beyond
due measure by the demands of spiritual conflict or environment.
There are three conditions of the spirit that the believer should
be able to discern and deal with: when his spirit is depressed or
'down'; when his spirit is in its proper position, composed and
in calm control; and when the peace of his spirit has been disrupted
that is, when he is feeling strained or driven. When a believer
is familiar with walking according to his spirit, and discerns that
his spirit is not in its proper position, he knows how to lift it
out of its depression or how to stop, by a quiet act of his will,
any overactivity, when his soul becomes disturbed by his own overeagerness
or by the drive of spiritual foes.
"If a person's spirit is in contact with the Spirit of God, it is
full of light; apart from Him it is darkness. When the spirit is
indwelt by Him, 'the spirit of man is the candle of the LORD
' (Proverbs 20:27). But when the spirit is bound or in heaviness,
it ceases to function or to be the source of power and energy in
a believer's life. If a person feels a heaviness in his spirit,
he should find out what the weight is. If he were to be asked, 'Is
it your body?' he would probably reply that it was not, but would
add that he felt bound inside. Then what is it that is 'bound' or
'weighted'? Is it not his spirit? One's spirit can be bound or free,
and the possibilities and potentialities of the human spirit can
only be known when the spirit is joined to Christ and, through experience,
is made strong by the Holy Spirit to 'stand against the wiles
of the devil' (Ephesians 6:11.)" (pp. 93-94)
- The Spiritual
Christian (Chapter 6)
"The deep desire
of the Spirit of God at the present time is the perfecting, or full
ripening into maturity, of the members of the body of Christ, so that
His appearing may quickly take place and the millennial reign of Christ
and His coheirs be ushered in." (p. 121)
Prayer and Evangelism
- Contents
- The Work
of Prayer
- Personal
Conditions for Answered Prayer
- Power in
Prayer
- The Position
of Victory for Prayer and Preaching
- First Bind
the Strong Man
- "Cut Through"
- Representative
Quotations
- The Work of
Prayer (Chapter 1)
In a section entitled "According to the Pattern"
"That is the strange lesson we all have to learn, and Calvary is
the pattern of it from beginning to end. God's victories look like
defeats. It is victory in the unseen realm while one is apparently,
absolutely down and out in the visible. It was so at Calvary, so
in the life of Paul, so in the life of Peter.... If we look for
a life of continual outward success, and desire to look prosperous
and pleasing to the world, we have a wrong conception of God's way
of working. If, on the other hand, you have the inward vision to
see that the life of God in you is only brought to fruition through
suffering, then you will learn to live in the unseen spirit-life
by faith. You will not be disturbed by the conflict, the opposition,
the betrayal of friends; but will keep your soul in patience and
filled with the love of God. You will see that your life-course
is according to the pattern of the God-Man on earth..." (p. 10)
- Personal Conditions
for Answered Prayer (Chapter 2)
"...An unclouded
personal relationship to Christ is the very foundation of answered
prayer. (p. 14)
"The groundwork of death - the foundation of the Cross - cannot be
passed over... Therefore, for effectual prayer, you need to
apprehend your position IN CHRIST, crucified, where you can say, 'Lord,
let the power of Thy death be applied to the activity of this old
life of nature that rises up, dulling my mind and spirit, causing
restless feverish activity of the soul-life, and giving material for
the enemy to work upon.'" (p. 16)
" 'If ye abide in Me.' [John 15:7a] For unbroken power in prayer there
must be this basis of abiding planted into Christ in His death, and
joined to Him in His Life." (p. 17)" 'And My words abide in you.'
[John 15:7b] There is no power in prayer except by the words of Christ
becoming wrought into the inner life. The believer must 'eat' and
'drink' His words in order to have power in prayer. If you cannot
pray, go and read God's Word until it burns in your heart - then pray.
You need fuel for prayer, 'My words' abiding in you...'. His word
will become assimilated into their very being, so that the spirit
life is built up upon the Word of God." (p. 18)
Selections from the
Writing of Jesse Penn-Lewis
Appendices in The Christian Life and Warfare
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Appendix #
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Title of the Article
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Original Publication (as referenced)
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2
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How To Walk by the Spirit
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Original Title: Spiritual Things to the Spiritual
The Overcomer, Vol. 3, Sept. 1911
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3
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Walking in the Will of God
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Original Title: (same)
The Overcomer, Vol. 6, June 1914
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4
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More Than Conquerors
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Original Title: (same)
A booklet
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5
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The Cross Destroying the Serpent
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Original Title: (same)
The Overcomer, No. 41, June 1918
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6
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Translated Out of the Power of Darkness
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Excerpt from an article of the same title
The Overcomer, Vol. 3, Sept. 1911
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9
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How to Bind the Strong Man
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Original Title: (same)
A booklet
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10
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Four Planes of the Spiritual Life
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Excerpt from Life Out of Death (book)
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Books by Jesse Penn-Lewis
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All Things New
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Life Out of Death
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The Awakening in Wales
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Opened Heavens
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The Centrality of the Cross
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Power for Service
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The Climax of the Risen Life
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Prayer and Evangelism
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Communion With God
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Soul and Spirit
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The Conquest of Canaan
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The Spiritual Warfare
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The Cross of Calvary
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The Story of Job
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The Cross - The Touchstone of Faith
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The Hidden Ones
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Dying to Live
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War on the Saints
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Face to Face
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Warfare With Satan
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Fruitful Living
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Work of the Holy Spirit
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Life in the Spirit
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Booklets by Jesse Penn-Lewis
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The Battle for the Mind
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The Pathway to Life in God
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The Glorious Secret
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Revival of Prayer Needed
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Hints for Workers
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The Spirit of Truth
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The Leading of the Lord
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Union With Christ
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More Than Conquerors
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The Word of the Cross
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Some Authors Quoted or Referred to in Jesse-Penn-Lewis. Writings
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Author
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Publications
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Conybeare, W. J.
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The Epistles of Paul (translation & notes)
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Darby, J.N.
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Holy Bible, New Translation
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Fausset
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Commentary by Jamison, Fausset, & Brown
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Godet
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Godet's Biblical Studies
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Guyon, J.
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An Autobiography
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Mabie, Dr.
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The Meaning of the Message of the Cross; The
Divine Reason of the Cross; How Does the Death of Christ Save
Us?
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Murray, Andrew
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The Spirit of Christ
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Pember, G. H
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Earth's Earliest Ages; Great Prophesies of
the Centuries
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Bibliography
Garrard, Mary
N. Jesse Penn-Lewis a memoir Bristol, England: The Overcomer
Literature Trust, 1930, reprinted 1989, 307 pp.
Nee, Watchman The Christian Life and Warfare Anaheim, CA: Living
Stream Ministry, 1992, Collected Works, Vol. 1, Set 1, 184 pp.
Penn-Lewis, Jesse. Face to Face and Union with Christ,
Fort Washington, PA: Christian Literature Crusade, 115 pp.
Prayer and Evangelism Dorset, England: The Overcomer Literature
Trust, 48 pp.
Releasing Your Spirit New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1997,
122 pp.
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