Desire Him for His Sake and Not Good Gifts
LIFT up your heart to God with a gentle stirring of love, desire Him for His sake and not for any good gifts He can supply. Avoid thinking on anything but God. Think not on any of His Creation or their functions but only on God Himself, so that you desire nothing but Him. Cloud […]
The Holy Spirit or Power from on High
Human Love is human; “love in the Spirit” is the love of God within us. It is the love of the Holy Ghost Himself, filling and flowing in our Hearts. A B Simpson
To You We Ascribe All Credit and Glory
Give to your servants words to speak Your truth,
The message You have place in our hearts, the message clear as any crystal chime.
Lord we cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, You oh Lord are Holy.
The Cloud of Unknowing – Author Unknown
A contemplative prentice should be occupied, the which be these—Lesson, Meditation, and Orison: … they may be called—Reading, Thinking, and Praying
My Grace is Sufficient for You
7 Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! 8 Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. 9 And He has said to me, […]
Prayer – Relating Our Life of Prayer to The Tabernacle
Finally, Prayer is not meant to change God, who is immutable, not of shifting shadow. Prayer is meant to change us. We are as shifting shadows, “14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. “