"Oh God, we pray Thee, reveal the mystery of the Divine truth; the mystery of our own hearts,

and the carnal state; the mystery of the Holy Spirit, and the spiritual life. We pray Thee now to come in and teach us. Give us grace to say, 'Lord search me, and if I am carnal, oh, discover it today, and open up to me the way into the spiritual life, to live as a spiritual man. God grant it." This is the reason God bring-s a believer into what might be termed a second conviction. It is most needful that he be fully convicted of two thing's: the utter impotence of the flesh to do any g"ood; the mig-hty power of the flesh to work evil. The flesh is ruling- him. He has the Spirit of God in him, and why does he yet do these thing-s? It is just the seventh of Romans, " I am strug-gling- to do rig-ht and I cannot." Oh friends, it is when a man is broug-ht under conviction of the utter impotence of the flesh to do g^ood, its helplessness, that he will understand why he lost his temper, and why pride comes up, and why he speaks wrong" words. "O God, a spiritual life is possible, I can become a spiritual man." "Lord, let me know what my conduct today should be," "I may." God has promised it, Christ has purchased it, the Word reveals it, thousands have experienced it. I 7nay be filled with the Spirit. Say, Lord, my heart longs for it. Begin to say, I give up everything O, God, self, sin, self-will, self-confidence, the flesh; I give up everything. I would be filled with the Holy Spirit. Lord God, set Thy mark upon me; I am an empty vessel waiting to be filled. I would be filled with the Holy Spirit. I am ready.

I shall be filled with the Holy Spirit. God has promised it to me. I have a right to say, I shall be filled with the Spirit. Say that trembling-ly and very, very humble. I confess I am carnal, I have felt my sinfulness, I confess my sin. My heart is willing- for it; I am going to trust God for it. Oh, God, Thou doest above what I can ask or think, I give myself to Thee entirely, I trust Thee forever, I give myself up fully and I claim the filling of the Holy Spirit. Thou givest it. God that we accept the lesson, that the Spirit comes to fill us with the love of heaven, with a love that makes loving others the one joy of our life; that we yield ourselves to it, and that by His grace we will make this our one object and desire. May God write it in our hearts. The whole history of the human race is nothing but one great struggle, man against man, each trying to exalt himself higher than the other. One wants more power, another more learning, another more culture, another more pleasure than anyone else around. Alas! Self is the God that rules the world. There is not one exception. Oh, if we were but conscious that we have this evil self within us how we would cry, "Deliver me from this monster, O, my God."

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what Christ says until you see the satanic origin of self, as a horrible rebellion against God. That is its origin, it comes out of hell and drags us back to hell. 2. Now look at its works. Look in your own life. What are the works of self? They are chiefly these three. Self-will, self-trust and selfexaltation. "Fill my will with Thy will," " God have mercy upon me and deliver me from self. If it has been self that has been tempting me to look away from Jesus, that has been coming between Jesus and myself, oh God deliver me." "I desire to be crucified with Christ; I desire to be made conformable to His death,"
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' Son of God, I fol low Thee with my whole heart to the very uttermost. I desire to follow Thee to the very depths of death. I desire to g^ive myself up utterly and wholly to Thee. I desire to take Thee and let Thee fill my whole being-." ' Lord Jesus ! come in. "
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"Thank God for the wonderful revelation of what the Holy Spirit can do to me." Then let us ask the Spirit

of sealing- to let each one know every moment that he is a child of God; the Spirit of illumination, to have the Spirit reveal Christ every minute, so that I can always know what I have in Christ; the Spirit of access to God, to lift me up to God in Christ; the Spirit of fellowship with all saints round about me; the Spirit of inspiration, revealing- truths to the apostles and to us; the Spirit of streng-thening-, bring-ing- from heaven the divine power through which Christ dwells in our heart by faith. In the outward life, the Spirit of lowliness and love, keeping the unity ofthe Spirit; the Spirit of holiness, never grieving Him by a single wrong thing or thought; the Spirit of fruitfulness, bringing forth in me all kindness, righteousness; the fullness of the Spirit, so that I may expect Him to take possession of every faculty of my being, entirely filling me; the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, to work in me and around me; last of all, the Spirit of prayer, lifting rae up into God's presence to plead for myself, to plead for the church, to plead for all sinners, to plead for those who speak, that boldness may be given unto them.

"Oh Lord, this is the life Thou hast promised; this is the life the Spirit will give; I am going to be content with nothing less; I am going to claim it. Beloved Saviour, Thou hast purchased me with Thy

blood, Thou hast promised me the Spirit from the Father, I claim it." "I forsake all to follow Jesus. I long to be filled with the Holy Ghost; I want the heavenly life to live in me fully every moment. I want to pray that I may have this 'pearl of great price.' "Lord, I cannot conquer self; I have been fighting but I have failed; have mercy upon me! het it henceforth be. None of self but all of Thee?" Lord, Thou canst not g-ive me the Holy Spirit; I am wanting- this mark; I have so little love. Lord, let my love now be a tender, intimate fellowship; I want my whole being to be filled with the love of God. "I do believe what Jesus says: that the Father delights to fill a child of His with the Holy Spirit. I do believe that the life of the Holy Spirit is meant to be lived by me every day in the week and every moment of my life. I do believe what the Scriptures say, that 'the Holy Spirit is able to fill me with God's love, so that my life shall be one of humility and tenderness, giving- g-lory to God and the Lord Jesus.'" I cannot pray as I ought. Ere you begin to pray just quietly say. Do I know what prayer is? Do I know what it is to meet the great God? Do I know how to take hold of God and hold Plim fast? Do I know how to take hold of His

streng-th? Do I know what the full fellowship and communion of God is? Beg-in to sit still until you realize His holy presence, and feel how little you are fit to speak to Him. Lord, I knov/ not how to pray. I may know manj' thing's to pray for but not what I need most. My prayer may be rig-htLord deliver me from pride and self-willand yet I may not know how sadl}' I need pride to be removed. Perhaps God wants me to be delivered from pride and I pray for that; and yet I have never seen myself as God sees me, I have never been truly convicted of my pride. "Lord, in Thy power I will live a holy life,"