A believer who knows how to abandon himself to the Lord will soon become perfect.

What is abandonment? It is forgetting the past, it is leaving the future in His hands, it is devoting the present fully and completely to your Lord.

Abandonment is being satisfied with the present moment, no matter what it brings or contains.

You are satisfied because you know that whatever that moment has, it contains – in that instant – God’s eternal plan for you.

Jesus Christ actually makes an imprint of Himself upon your soul. Each time He comes to you, He leaves a new and different impression of His nature upon you.

When the Lord finds a believer who is completely abandoned to Him in all things without and in all things within, He will often choose to give that person special revelations of His nature.

As you possess Him, you will inherit all His traits. This is godliness. The more you possess God, the more you are made like Him.

The Christian who has learned to be abandoned to Jesus Christ and who walks in a life of abandonment to Him, practices godliness in the highest degree

But you would never hear such a person claim to posses any particular spirituality at all.

The Lord is very jealous over any saint who is utterly abandoned to Him. He does not let that believer have any pleasures at all outside of Himself.

God will cause you to experience a natural subduing of the flesh! You can be sure of this:

The Christian who has faithfully abandoned himself to the Lord will soon discover that he also has laid hold of a God who will not rest until He has subdued everything!

Your Lord will put to death all that remains to be put to death in your life.

The more you receive His nature, the more you will draw upon His sustaining power.

The nearer you draw to the Lord, the farther you are removed from sin.

I am willing with all the power of my being that the desire of God be accomplished within me.

I am willing to be here, ceasing from all my activity and all of my power, so that God might have His desire of fully possessing me.

Give all your attention to learning how to turn within and dwell in your spirit.

You must remain faithful in humbly withdrawing your heart from outward distractions and occupations.

Form the habit of continually returning to God, who is your center, with a peaceful, tender love.

Prayer that consists of silence. And while in this silence, God pours into you a deep, inward love. This experience of love is one that will fill and permeate your whole being.

Psalm 46:10 – “Be still and know that I am God.”

When a baby is born, it draw milk from its mother’s breast by moving its lips. However, once the milk began to flow, the child simply swallows without any further effort.

This must be your attitude in prayer. You must act this same way, especially in the beginning.

Draw ever so gently, but as the Lord flows out of your spirit into your soul, cease all activity.

How do you begin? By moving your lips, by stirring up the affections of your love for the Lord. As soon as the milk of divine love is flowing freely, be still – do nothing.

Rather, very simply and sweetly, take in that grace and love. When this grace, this sense of the Lord’s love, ceases to flow, it is time once again to stir up your affections.

When the Christian has become calm and peaceful in prayer, he frequently sinks into assort of mystical sleep; or to put it another way, the powers of his soul are completely at rest.

There will born in you an internal conversation with God.

This conversation is highly enjoyable, and the most amazing thing about it is that no outward circumstances can interrupt it.

Godliness flows so sweetly and so easily from within the believer who has advanced this far that it even seems to be his very nature that pours itself out with such sweetness and ease.

The spring of living water within breaks forth abundantly, producing every kind of goodness.

Your only purpose is to be filled to overflowing with the divine presence of Jesus Christ and, deep within you, to be prepared to receive from Him anything that he chooses to bestow upon you.

Hosea 2:14 – “I will lead her into solitude, and there I will speak to her heart.”

One great element of prayer is deep, inward worship. Real prayer, of necessity, has worship as its central elements.

Prayer is the outpouring of your heart to Him.

1 Sam 1:15 – ‘I have poured out my soul before the Lord.”

As the soul melted, sweet fragrances begin to rise from it. These fragrances pour forth from a consuming fire of love… and that love is in you.

God dwells in your spirit. When you learned how to dwell there with Him, His divine presence dissolves the hardness of your soul, and as that hardness of your soul melts, precious fragrances pour forth from it.

Luke 17:21 – “The Kingdom of God is within you.”

This is true when God becomes the master and Lord within you so completely that nothing in you resist His dominion. It is then that your inner being, your spirit, is His kingdom. That is when God possess you.

Secondly, there is the matter of your possessing God. When we possess God, we possess His kingdom; and in His kingdom there is fullness of joy. Our ultimate purpose is to enjoy God in this life.

Once your soul has turned within and once your mind is set on the spirit, from that moment on the inward attraction of your spirit is very powerful.

The truth is, nothing is as quick to return to its center as is the soul to the spirit.

Draw me to yourself, O the indwelling presence, by the secret springs of my existence, and all my powers and senses will follow you!

Yield yourself to the guidance of the Spirit of God. By continuing to depend upon His action, and not that action of the soul, the things you do will be of value to God.

The working of the Spirit deep within you must be the source of all your activity. All activity – both that which is surface and visible, as well as that which is hidden and internal – must come from the working of the Spirit.

We do not know what we need. We do not know how to pray for the things we need. In fact, we do not know how to pray! Ah!, but the Spirit who lives inside us knows what and how to pray. The one to whom you have given yourself knows everything.

Romans 8:27 – The Spirit is heard always when He prays.

Zach 2:13 – “Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord.