Issue 7 Winter 2022/2023

Called to be Filled with the Spirit

“But you shall receive power 
when the Holy Spirit
has come upon you;
and you shall be witnesses to Me
in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the end of the earth.”

(Acts 1: 8)

IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES

Living Water
Ruth Paxson

“But the water that I shall give him 
will become in him a fountain of water
springing up into everlasting life.”
(John 4: 14)

Christ’s offer to the Samaritan woman was a gift which would change her source of supplies from a water pot to a well, and then convert her life into a channel through which rivers of Living Water should flow….Read more

The Promise of The Father
Andrew Murray

In the words of God’s promise, “I will pour out My Spirit,” (Acts 2: 17-18) and of His command, “Be ye filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5: 18), we have the measure of what God is ready to give and what we may obtain.

Jesus spoke of the Spirit as “the promise of the Father” (Luke 24:49). The best gift a good and wise father can bestow on a child is his own spirit, to reproduce in his child his own disposition and character. Was not this the glory of Jesus as a Son upon earth, that the Spirit of the Father was in Him?….Read more

The Unexpected Gift
Corrie Ten Boom

For ten years after my release from prison, I had been travelling all over the world at the direction of God. Many times I did not know why I was to go to a certain place until I arrived and it became second nature to wait on God’s plans. But now I found myself in Basel with no contacts and no idea why I was there….Read more

Power to Change
C. T. Studd

“Remember that soul-saving is comparatively easy work, and not nearly so important as that of making the saved ones into saints and soldiers.”
These words were written to a rather young C. T. Studd during his years in China, and much later in Africa he was to see the challenge of them….Read more

The Anointing
Oswald J. Smith

“I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground” (Isa. 44:3).

With every great revival someone tarried, waited, wrestled and travailed, until they prevailed with God, and the heavens poured forth floods of grace into the hearts of seeking people. God considers the anointing of the Holy Spirit to be of paramount importance….Read more

The Oil of Unction
A. B. Saint

It was no more than a handful of years ago that I switched on a Christian television programme, which at the end of it, left me, I must say, slightly confused. Two men were being interviewed about an item which they had brought on the show. It was a bible which was owned by one of the two men, and had been placed in, as I recall, a plastic container….Read more

After The Inward Man
T. A. Sparks

“Even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.”
(1 Corinthians 2: 11)

How will Christ be formed in us? Not by the acceptance of creeds and doctrines and teachings and orders, but by the receiving of His organic life, His divine life, His life from above. And that life is not an abstract thing….Read more

When Revival Came to the Hebrides
Duncan Campbell

First, let me tell you what I mean by revival. An evangelistic campaign or special meeting is not revival. In a successful evangelistic campaign/crusade, hundreds even thousands of people will make decisions for Jesus Christ, but the community remains untouched, and the churches continue much the same as before….Read more

Readers Testimony

Recognising Our Need
Samuel Chadwick

“Apart from Me, you can do nothing.”
(John 15: 5)

The Christian walk is not a set of doctrines about Christ, neither is it a rule of life based upon the teaching and example of Christ. It is not even a sincere and earnest endeavour to live according to the mind and spirit of Christ. It is Life, and that Life is the Life of Christ….Read more

You Must Be Born Again
N. W. T

What a weighty statement Jesus made to Nicodemas who came to him by night for an audience. “Except a man is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:1-21). The term “born again” does not simply imply or mean believing in Jesus. It is a life surrendered to God in every respect where we desire to cease to be….Read more

Something Better
F. B. Meyer

One day when traveling by train, a young man sat opposite me reading Thomas a Kempis’ “Imitation of Christ.” I knew the book, and sat beside him and said:

“A grand book.”
He said: “Yes.”
Said I: “I have found something better.” “Better?”
“Yes.”
“How?”….Read more

Yield Yourselves Unto God
Oswald J. Smith

You tell me you have already received the Holy Spirit. Read on, this message is for you, for this experience is to be repeated again and again. For instance, in Acts 2:4 we have the first experience and in Acts 4:31, a second filling. Peter was present on both occasions, so that he was filled twice at least….Read more

Fellowship With Him
Charles H. Spurgeon

When we were united by faith to Christ, we were brought into such complete fellowship with him, that we were made one with him, and his interests and ours became mutual and identical.

We have fellowship with Christ in his love. What he loves we love. He loves the saints–so do we. He loves sinners–so do we….Read more

BIOGRAPHY

The Testimony of C. T. and Priscilla Studd

PART 3 CANNIBALS WANT MISSIONARIES

After six peaceful years pastoring a European church in India, the Studds returned to England in 1906 with no plans for the future. With no home of their own, they resumed British life with Charlie’s mother at her affluent Hyde Park home, who had always made them welcome.

Now back in England, openings and invitations abounded for C. T. Studd to share his testimony and call from God to leave the cricket pitch to join the mission field, and he was not short on compelling stories. For the next two years he stirred and encouraged would-be missionaries to take the gospel to the uttermost parts of the earth.…Read more

BIBLE STUDY

Called To Be Filled With The Holy Spirit