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Volume 4 The Keeping Power for the Mind

by Ernest Angley

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,

shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus
(Philippians 4:7). Your innermost being is the place of the soul,
the heart. The Bible plainly tells you that the Lord not only wants
to keep your soul—your heart—He wants to keep your mind in
perfect peace. He wants His peace to flow as freely there as it
does in the born-again soul. Although God provided a means for April 1992
peace of mind, many in this final hour are battling. When the
peace in the soul is blocked from the mind, battles of the mind
break out. Topics: Your Mind

The soul is the reservoir for the mind, a storage place for the
greatness of God. Many think that every time God blesses them it comes straight from heaven. Not
so. You who are born again have the greatness of God stored in the reservoir of your soul. Have
you ever studied a reservoir? It holds a collection, a large supply or reserve of a substance. A
reservoir is often a natural or artificial lake in which water is collected and stored to supply the
needs of a whole community.

Cities that keep great supplies of water in reservoirs aren't going to use it all at once, but store it for
years in the future. Most have not realized that the reservoir of the soul holds this kind of gigantic
supply. Seek answers to prayer from the bountiful supply in the soul.

Ponder how incredible a soul really is. Its size and capacity have no boundaries. The mind holds a
limited amount, but because the soul came from the breath of God, it has no limitation on how
much of the blessings and greatness of God it can hold. It is the eternal part of you.

Jesus, talking to the woman at the well, said: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I
shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a

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well of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:14). Jesus' words puzzled her. She
didn't understand about the water of eternal life. She had come for natural water. Jesus was
talking to her about soul water, water that will cause a person to never thirst again spiritually, a
well of water springing into eternal life. How can this be? Through Divinity; through the well of
salvation that Christ brought to all who would drink of it. There is no limit on how much of God
the soul can hold. What the soul contains depends on how much you want to store there. Eternal
life dwells in the soul, life the world cannot understand. You will have no more life in heaven than
you have now. Eternal life can't be added to.

Jesus spoke further about the great inner supply available: In the last day, that great day of
the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and
drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow
rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him
should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet
glorified.) (John 7:37-39). Jesus was saying that when the Holy Ghost came, He would flow like
rivers of living waters out of the innermost being of those who believe on Him as the Bible says.
The Lord wasn't exaggerating. Only through the Holy Spirit can we discern what the Lord has
made available to and for us.

Before you started living right, thinking right, you had to get your soul right with God. It wasn't
enough to decide to give your heart to God, you had to totally give it. The soul had to be delivered
through the power of Calvary, redeemed, set free so that you could take on a new mind, be made
new all over. Salvation begins in the soul. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved (Romans 10:9). You confess Jesus with your tongue, but you must believe in your
soul.

Salvation in the soul affects the mind. Jesus bridged the gap between man and God, and the Holy
Spirit bridged the gap between the soul and mind of man. The Holy Spirit is with us at all times
providing us with that bridge through which He flows the love, faith, and promises of God from the
soul into the mind. But that flow can be blocked by not accepting what is available to you in the
soul, for then the hands of the Holy Spirit are tied and He is unable to flood the mind with the
greatness of God.

When you received salvation, you stored it in your soul. Nothing but willful sin can crowd salvation
out of your soul. Ever since you became saved, you, through the Holy Spirit, have been able to
draw on the benefits of that salvation again and again. Joy, peace and happiness have been
available to you as you yielded to the Holy Spirit. Had that salvation been of the mind alone, it

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never would have lasted. Other things would have crowded it out.

The soul is a treasure house when it contains God's salvation. Only in your soul can His greatness
be kept all the time. The mind is limited; it can never hold all of Divinity. But Christ can be in us
because the soul is unlimited in its capacity. The soul can contain the whole Jesus. Greater is he
that is in you, than he that is in the world (I John 4:4). Paul said, I live; yet not I, but
Christ liveth in me (Galatians 2:20). Christ does not live continuously in the mind, but in the
soul. It's the mind and body that keep you from completely enjoying all the Lord has for you. But
one day the body will be set free, changed into a glorified body, eternal to match the eternal soul.
What jubilation that will bring! Until that wonderful day, you have the life of God, Jesus and the
Holy Ghost living with you all the time.

When God made man a living soul, He gave him everything. Man had plenty of room in the
treasure house of his soul to hold God's great love, faith, goodness, all of Him. Although the
capacity is still there, some people don't receive much of God because they try to keep Him in their
minds rather than storing Him in their souls. Neglecting to store faith for answered prayer in their
souls, many send up empty petitions to the throne of God. They little realize how much of the
treasures of God the soul can hold.

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of
the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth
forth evil things (Matthew 12:34,35). What is in your soul will come out, good or bad. It can be
possessed by devils—there is no limit to the amount of devils that can be in a soul, just as there is
no limit to how much of God the soul can hold.

Thousands of devils were in a certain man before Jesus delivered him. Jesus asked, What is thy
name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. And he
besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there
was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils
besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And
forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into
the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were
about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea (Mark 5:9-13).

Many, many demons can be in one person. Demon possession is of the soul; it affects and takes
over the mind. The devil knows the soul comes from God, that it is eternal like God Himself; and
he makes it his business to move into every soul he can with every devil he can, every devil the
human mind will accept. Again and again, people come before me devil possessed. Many devils

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can possess a soul.

There are devils that torment the mind but do not possess the soul. Only when the devils enter the
soul is the person devil possessed. Until then, that tormented one is devil oppressed. As long as
Jesus is in the soul, a person cannot be devil possessed although he may be tormented in the mind.
A Christian, I repeat, can be oppressed by evil spirits, but not possessed; for at the point of
possession, salvation is lost, and the person is no longer a true Christian. There is a great difference
between possession and oppression. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other
(Matthew 6:24). You serve either God or the devil.

Out of the evil treasure of the heart comes forth evil things. The devil unpacks and delivers every
evil he can to a willing soul, and stores it there.

Many children today are devil possessed because the parents are ungodly. That resistance, that
good character the Lord could have built into them never had a chance to take root. Without God's
protective power, the door is open for the devil to move in. Not merely affecting the child's mind,
the devil can possess the child's soul. That's the reason parents must be so careful to fight off the
devil. Parents represent their children.

When Jesus, divinity, came to Earth, took on flesh, He used a human mind that contained the
ingredients of heaven. He desires us to have the same kind of mind that He had when He was
here; it's His divine will. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus
(Philippians 2:5). What a wonderful statement! You can have the same kind of mind that Jesus
had, the identical ingredients that made up His mind. His way of thinking, His thoughts, are
yours. It's your birthright, yours when you become born again. Not just His salvation is yours, but
the mind of Christ, the mind He used when He was here on Earth. You will not act, think or talk
like Him all the time unless you have His mind.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the
mind of Christ (I Corinthians 2:16). Everything that made up the mind of Christ is found in the
Word of God. A blood-washed soul, one cleansed from all sin can hold the Jesus mind.

Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful,
be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise
blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing (I
Peter 3:8,9). How can you be of one mind? By taking on the mind of Jesus, by having Jesus in
your soul. Jesus in your soul brings you into one mind with Him as you yield your mind to the
Holy Spirit. That is one of the reasons it is a necessity for everyone to have the baptism in the Holy
Ghost: He pours Jesus into the yielded mind.

In this final hour, we must have the mind of Christ just like the Early Church. Those with the mind

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of Christ will evangelize the world and bring back the King. They are the ones who will be changed
in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye; for they will have the power of the Holy Ghost freely working
within. This power came when they were baptized in the same Holy Spirit the Early Church
received on the day of Pentecost.

John saw the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove on Jesus; Jesus had a Holy Ghost mind.
Rejecting the baptism in the Holy Ghost is rejecting the mind of Christ. Again and again in various
ways the Bible tells us why we must have the Holy Ghost to make the Rapture.

The Holy Ghost is so important to receive that Jesus said, It is expedient for you that I go
away: for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will
send him unto you (John 16:7). The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you (John 14:26). The Holy Ghost is the
operator, the helper, the One who will deliver that which is in your soul to your mind every time
you yield to Him.

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us
(Romans 5:5). The Holy Ghost sheds abroad the love of God in our hearts to our minds. That great
gulf, I say again, between the soul and mind is bridged by the Holy Ghost. Although in the same
body, the mind and soul can be miles apart. Only death will cause the soul to move from the body,
but the mind can visit far away places in seconds. The soul is steadfast while the mind travels to
whatever catches its attention. It is essential to have the Holy Spirit to help bring the mind back
into agreement with the soul. The Holy Spirit, in bridging the gulf, focuses your mind again and
again on the essential things you need to think about and dwell on.

Jesus said in Matthew 5:48, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in
heaven is perfect. We can be perfect in God's love—and we must be. Be perfect, be of good
comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you
(II Corinthians 13:11). Through the apostle Paul, the Lord is telling us that we can be perfect, in one
mind. What kind of mind is that? The mind of Christ, of course. Only through the mind of Christ
can the Children of God be in one accord, in unity.

Live in peace with God's people. How tragic indeed the way some Christians fail to keep the mind
of Christ, fail to use the things that make up His mind! Wrong ideas lodge in their thoughts,
contaminating, breaking fellowship with the Lord. Venom filters down from the mind and out the
mouth to cause damage and hurt to the Kingdom.

Weigh the damage inflicted by gossip, criticism and tale-bearing. It takes the love of God in the

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soul ushered into the mind by the Holy Ghost to squelch unkind words and hurtful comments.
Embracing the love of God as the Holy Spirit sheds it abroad in your heart and mind gives you all
you need to control your tongue with a bridle of love. Let the Holy Spirit fill your soul and mind
with the goodness and greatness of God.

If your mind is not filled with God, there is room for the devil to deceive you, to destroy all the
good that God seeks to do. You can't hold in your mind the things God hates and still be a fit vessel
for Him. Clamor, revenge, jealousy, envy, strife, pouting are unacceptable to the Lord. Those
things festering in the mind hinder the Holy Spirit from working in your life. Grudges, hard
feelings, resentments choke out the flow of the Holy Spirit and render helpless the strength of God
that you need to make you an overcomer. There you are with Jesus in your soul, but your mind is
leeched, influenced by the devil. When enough leeches take over, they drop into the soul, and
salvation is lost.

The devil works on the mind, trying to plant every little grudge, every unforgiving spirit he can.
The seeds the enemy is able to sow in your mind strengthen his march to your soul. He is on his
way to steal everything that God has given you, working to cause you to hold resentment, bitterness
and anything else unlike God in your mind. Always remember, however, that God provides power
to be rid of what the devil brings. You have salvation and the grace of God to overcome that which
has been planted in your mind by the devil if you really want it out.

Sometimes the devil doesn't need to put destructive thoughts and feelings into the mind; you do it
yourself. You reach out to embrace the wrong things. Feeling justified to be resentful, you want
vengeance. You've been treated unfairly, and you feel heads should roll. Jesus was treated
unfairly: they killed Him. But while He was dying, He asked the Father to forgive His murderers.
Jesus is our example.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them
that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That
ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise
on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye
love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the
publicans so (Matthew 5:44-47)? Some not only don't love their enemies, they have trouble
loving their brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.

If you don't keep your mind straight with the Lord, the seeds of resentment and anger can easily
grow out of control. At best, you tie the hands of God, and the Holy Spirit cannot serve you the
things of God. Consequently, you struggle in a terrible condition, another victim of failure to use

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God's love in difficult situations. How long will you be able to continue in that dangerous state,
robbed of joy, peace and love and still keep your salvation? Your very soul is in jeopardy.

Jealousy, pouting, gossiping destroy happiness. Peace is foreign to those carrying grudges.
Resentment gnaws on them night and day; bitterness underwrites their main thoughts. Unhappy
people reach out for unhappy remedies. But when you have peace of mind from God, the love of
God in your mind, you have no room for destructive thoughts. You are able to love and bless the
unlovable—not necessarily their actions, but their souls. Looking and yielding to the Holy Spirit,
you are served the goodness of God from your soul to your mind. Your mind thrives on such a diet;
it's in accord with the Holy Scripture, with thus saith the Lord. What a marvelous provision God
has made for us!

John saw the Holy Ghost descending on Jesus in the form of a dove. Jesus yielded to the Holy
Ghost. As the Son of God, Jesus didn't need to be baptized in the Holy Ghost, but as the Son of man
it was necessary just as it was necessary for Him to be baptized in water. Jesus did it for the human
race, not for Himself.

As very God, Jesus came to Earth, put Himself under subjection to the human mind, the human
spirit. He was just like us but divine, very God as well as very man. The blood was divine,
furnished by the Holy Ghost from heaven, a holy conception. The life is in the blood.

Jesus showed us we could store the Word in our souls, the greatness of heaven. He knew what we
could have, and He brought it within our reach, asking the Father to send the Holy Ghost for all of
us—another Comforter—to guide us into the fullness of Christ.

Paul had the mind of Christ when he wrote in Philippians 3:13, But this one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which
are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded (Philippians 3:13-15).
With God, you live in the now, in the very moment of doing. God doesn't take you back into the
heartaches of the past. Regret doesn't help or strengthen. Paul could have looked back to how his
people had betrayed him, made him an outcast, disinherited him; but he didn't. Because Paul had
Jesus, many considered him the scum of the Earth. But he didn't wallow in self-pity.

Paul, hiding the treasures of God in his soul, was continuously looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). Be like-minded in the Lord as He leads you, never
looking back. Forget those things behind and press on toward the prize. All the help you need
from God is before you. Keep reaching to it. Claim the greatness of heaven, wonderful things God
has promised.

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If you want perfection in God's love, be of the mind of Jesus. He never looked back. Even on the
cross He looked ahead: For the joy that was set before him [Jesus] endured the cross,
despising the shame (Hebrews 12:2). Through the Spirit of God we can see all the way to
heaven. We understand that our journey on Earth is short, that this life will be over soon.

As you look ahead to the Lord, you find not too many people bothering you. The troublesome ones
are those left behind. Look unto Jesus.

He, talking about fruit of the Spirit, not soul winning, said, Abide in me, and I in you. As the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except
ye abide in me (John 15:4). As you look to Jesus and abide in Him, you will bring forth much
fruit.

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us (Ephesians 5:2). You can't walk in love
without His love in your soul. Look to Him to supply that love. Daily you walk with what you have
in your soul; you walk, for instance, according to the faith in your soul. If you don't have God's
faith in your soul, you will not walk daily with Jesus.

Noah took on a God-soul in that awful period of time when minds of men were evil continually.
The greatness of God in his soul flowed into his mind and rejected the powers of the devil. His soul
contained God's love, God's faith. Noah, with that wonderful mind of God, could take in the plan of
God. He was not lukewarm; he did not compromise with the world. Noah lined up with God all
the way.

Many today cannot comprehend the plan of God because they do not have Him in their souls.
Because they don't think like Him, believe like Him or act like Him, they are drawn into the devil's
camp.

We have come to the time in this final hour of the great pouring out of the Holy Spirit. The Lord
has been very patient, but you are going either one way or the other, saith the Lord. The Lord told
me this hour would come, an hour when no one would be straddling the fence. People will line up
either for God or for the devil. So great will these two supernatural powers be on Earth, that
people will go to the left or the right.

If you are in a lukewarm condition, you'll never know you are going the wrong way. Making the
lukewarm think they are right with God is easy for the devil. He talks to the mind. When the soul
is lukewarm, the mind rules, yields to the devil's reasoning. Examine your soul with the Word of
God to find just what condition your soul is in.

The body came from the Earth, and it can be satisfied only with that which comes from the Earth.

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The soul came from the breath of God and craves the Bread of Life. For the soul to be happy, to
enjoy well-being, it must go all the way with God. Without God-nourishment, the soul is on
dangerous ground in a desolate land inhabited by the devil.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray
for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered (Romans 8:26). Great help is available to God's Children from the Holy
Spirit. He is our teacher, our intercessor, but He can only use the mind that is yielded to Him.
You're a free moral agent; the decision to yield or not to yield is yours.

If your soul is saved you will go to heaven when you die; but if you reject the help and knowledge
of the Holy Spirit, the devil will steal many of your blessings. Unless you yield to Him, the Holy
Spirit cannot bring the promises of God out of your soul into your mind. God's blessings, so close,
will go unused. You have been to Calvary, the Lord is in your soul, you have the grace of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ; but, remember, you can be robbed of the benefits of God in your daily
living.

The Lord told Paul: My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in
weakness (II Corinthians 12:9). When you have the grace of God, you have all the help you need.
The Lord was telling Paul that he already had the victory over the problem: it was in his soul. My
grace is sufficient.

Child of God, you, too, have the help you need; it's in your soul. When Jesus came into your soul,
He brought His peace, His joy, His overcoming faith and power. Just as the mind selects for the
stomach, the soul selects for the mind that which is yielded to the Holy Spirit. God's grace is
sufficient.

You can have difficultly fasting because the mind is very persuasive when it comes to food.
However, your innermost being—where the Lord dwells—is crying to grow closer to God, crying for
a long fast. Your mind is saying not today; it's overpowering you; but if you let the Holy Spirit
serve your mind, He will bring it under subjection. The soul is more eager to feed the mind than
the mind could ever be to feed the stomach.

Child of God, keep your mind yielded to the Holy Spirit daily. The mind not completely yielded to
the Holy Spirit will have confusion, no matter how much that mind feels it is thinking clearly. It's
what the devil wants. If he can't talk you into backsliding, he will confuse your mind so you won't
get the work of God done in this final hour. Constantly he will bring worry. God made man with
the desire to yield to Him completely. When He came down in the cool of the day to walk and talk
with Adam, every thought left Adam's mind but those of God—until Adam sinned. God was

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displaced in Adam's heart, and confusion entered. Confusion does not come from God: For God is
not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints (I Corinthians
14:33).

If you have a mind of confusion, but yet have the peace of God in your soul, you are not letting the
Holy Spirit shed that peace from your soul into your mind daily. Confusion doesn't necessarily
mean you are unsaved; but if you are saved, confusion means you are not enjoying the fruits of
your salvation. Salvation is to be delighted in.

Jesus came all the way from heaven to make heaven's best possible for you to have. He bled and
died in your place so you would be fit to receive that which comes from heaven.

Man driven out of Eden lost direct access to God. He sold his soul to the devil. Through that
disobedience, sin entered the life stream of mankind. The devil owns the soul of everyone who has
reached the age of accountability unless that soul turns to God. Jesus came to bridge the gap
between man and God, to restore the soul back into God's possession. The soul comes from God;
it's eternal, and it rightfully belongs to Him. The choice that soul makes on Earth determines
whether it spends a glorious eternity in heaven or a living death in hell.

Many people exist without even a sliver of life in their souls. They've substituted the life of Christ
for an Earth existence that contains nothing but death. Without the life of Jesus, you really have no
life at all. Man was without life when Jesus came. But He said, I am come that they might
have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). Some think abundant
life is determined by material possessions. That wasn't what the Lord was talking about. He has
promised to supply all our needs, including the material ones. But He is building us mansions in
heaven.

For the most part, God can't trust people with riches—again and again murders have taken place
for just a little money. Wealth influences man to put trust in it rather than in God. With wealth
comes a sense of power that gives some people the idea they are superior to the less wealthy.
When the meal barrel is empty, however, people begin to think about God.

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or,
Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for
your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first
the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto
you (Matthew 6:31-33).

Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by
me (John 14:6). Jesus is life abundant. Why try to displace God in your life, to feed your soul on
the things the body desires? It can't be done.

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The rich man said, I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow
all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid
up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him,
Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things
be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not
rich toward God (Luke 12:18-21). The rich man thought he could feed his soul on his riches, but
that night he died. God honors those who are rich in spirit toward Him.

Jesus came to make it possible for us to use the things of heaven while we are en route there. We
needn't die to possess the fruit of heaven, for the nine fruits of the Spirit belong to the Children of
God here on Earth. Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance (self-control) are fruits of the Holy Spirit, part of our heritage through Jesus Christ
(Galatians 5:22,23).

The Lord provides a supply of His grace, a treasure house of the soul filled through Jesus Christ
with all the ingredients we need for abundant life.

It's wonderful to have the real life of God, to be able to put the world in perspective with God's
measure. In this final hour, the Lord is breathing His life into the Bride. She has all the wisdom
and knowledge of God at her fingertips. With the light of God, she won't walk as one in the night,
stumbling through this final hour. Not one backward look will she take. The Bride is going all the
way into the greatness of God.

The Bride has failed in the past—read it in the Song of Solomon. There was a time she wouldn't
even rise to answer the Lord's knock. When she finally did go to the door, He had withdrawn.
Then she started searching for Him in the streets, her mind determined to never fail Him again. I
sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer (Song of
Solomon 5:6).

But in this last and final hour, the Bride has found her beloved. Draw me, we will run after
thee, she cries (Song of Solomon 1:4). The Bride has a mind to run after the Lord, after His love,
faith, His greatness—all of Him. She wants the whole Jesus. By desiring Him, she can have
miracles, healings and great manifestations of His love. That's the way it was in the beginning of
the Early Church. Once again, we can expect miraculous things to take place in this last and final
hour.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing
one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your
hearts to the Lord (Colossians 3:16). Let the Word dwell in you—not just a tiny bit—but in all

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wisdom. To admonish is to inform or remind, to warn mildly. In dedication, consecration, we

admonish those around us that we must go with God all the way, no reservations. We can't be
influenced by the world, or moved by its songs; we must have songs that praise the Lord.

The Israelites, carried away to Babylon, sat down and wept. We hanged our harps upon the
willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of
us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the
songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land (Psalm 137:2-4)? In
this hour, Child of God, our harps can't be on the willows. We must sing the songs of the Lord. If
you have a problem with that, you will have to become more consecrated, more dedicated, saith the
Lord. Give yourself completely to God and you won't want the world's music, you will have no
desire for it, but crave something that edifies, something that blesses. Your soul and mind will be
connected, bridged by the Holy Spirit. It's a combination that makes peace, creates great love,
happiness and strength. Learn the greatness that God has for the church, the Bride of Christ in this
her last hour.

Let the peace of God rule in your hearts (Colossians 3:15). Not depression, oppression but
the peace of God is to rule in your heart, your soul. As the peace of God rules, it clears the mind.

People who don't let the peace of God rule in their hearts don't have it in their minds. You can't
use something if you don't have it. People seek peace in all ways but the right one.

Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means (II Thessalonians
3:16). The Lord gives you peace all the time, but how much do you use it? God's peace in your
heart and soul is also for your mind, but you must let the Holy Spirit use it. Don't let self or others
disturb the peace of God and hinder your mind so it will not yield to the Spirit.

If you walk in the Spirit, you will be yielded to the Lord. You have His love, faith all the time.
Some Christians say they don't have faith. It's their minds telling them that. Faith is stored in the
soul; it's part of God's divine nature. He put it there. Check the soul, not the mind.

Jesus' divine nature had great compassion for the sick, afflicted and those bound in sin. He told the
disciples they would have the same power of deliverance they saw Him use: Verily, verily, I say
unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall
ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son (John
14:12,13). In His name it will be done.

We who have been born again are new creatures in Christ, sons and daughters of God. The Spirit

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itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children,
then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:16,17). We have become
like our Lord. The Bride will not imitate Jesus, she will actually become like her Lord, take on His
divine nature. To live a life of imitation is repulsive, but to see a son with mannerisms similar to his
good father is delightful, a natural thing.

I remember when I was a boy following my dad behind the plow, jumping from footprint to
footprint in the soft soil. Then one day I grew up and was able to take steps the length he took. It
was a natural thing to be able to walk like my father, just as it's a natural thing for a Christian to
walk like our Lord. We're not to imitate Him, I say again, but to take on the divine nature He had
when He walked the Earth. Divinity lives on the inside of His true Children—it's the miracle of
redemption, the miracle of Calvary.

Philippians 4:8 tells us what to think on: Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things
are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if
there by any praise, think on these things. You cannot continuously store these things in
your mind, for your mind is used for many things—business matters, family, friends, daily living.
The things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of a good report must be stored in your soul so
the Holy Spirit can bring the things of praise to your mind. All these describe the Word of God. Do
you have the Word of God in your soul? The Psalmist wrote: Thy word have I hid in mine
heart, that I might not sin against thee (Psalm 119:11). How wonderful to have the Word in
your soul! All the strength of heaven is then yours as the Holy Ghost floods His Word into your
mind.

List the things in your soul. Some of you carry much of heaven in your soul, but your mind is
tortured, tortured, tortured. You worry almost to death over many cares. Don't go by feelings: go
by faith. The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). You live by the faith of God.

If you question your salvation, check your soul with the Word of God; never check with your mind
to see how you feel. Pay no attention to what the devil tells you; the Lord said the devil is a liar,
and the father of it (John 8:44). No truth can be found in the devil at all. Why listen to him?
How many times has he robbed you with the same old lie? You know you aren't saved, he
whispers. You finally defeat him: he leaves for a few days, but then returns to aggravate you
further.

What is in your soul? Is salvation there? If so, let it be established in your mind so you won't be
shaken into doubting it. Heaven's salvation in the soul needs to be accepted with confidence in the
mind. Know that salvation is the starter of real life, bringing the favor of heaven. When you

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receive salvation, you come into the family of God. He adopts you; you are His, blood-washed,
blood-bought. You can't be saved without the Word of God. The Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us (John 1:14).

How many of the promises of God are in your soul? How many have you claimed? What you have
claimed belongs to your soul. Is the promise of redemption the only claim in your soul? Have you
claimed the promises for overcoming strength, overcoming power? Have you claimed any of the
promises of healing, of miracles? What have you claimed? What is yours? How much do you
believe belongs to you? How much have you "put your foot on?"

All the land of Canaan is yours, the Lord told the Israelites. Every place that the sole of your
foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses (Joshua 1:3). The
land was theirs, but they had to put their feet on it and claim it.

Stake your claim. The promises of God are yours, the promises of happiness, joy and peace—but
have you claimed them? If so, they are in your soul, stored there. Now use them. Jesus said,
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto
you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27). He gives you
His peace. Stake your claim for His peace—unless you feel you need to be sad part-time.

Do you think your happiness is against God's will? Do you think you were born with bad luck? God
doesn't go by luck; He goes by grace. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not
of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians
2:8,9).

Have you claimed the promise of the Father, the Holy Ghost? You can't have the Holy Ghost just in
your mind; He must be in the soul. In the soul, your innermost being, the Holy Ghost sets up His
office work.

You can't, I say again, go by feelings. We are to walk casting down imaginations, and every
high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into
captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (II Corinthians 10:5).

You who have the Holy Ghost: Have you gone no farther in the Lord? What about the fruits of the
Spirit? How much have you claimed? Are you using all of them? The promise of joy—do you
really have it? The fruits of peace, of longsuffering: do you have them or do you become angry,
upset, grouchy? If you do, you are not drawing on the fruit of longsuffering. Jesus was
longsuffering, and He made it possible for you to be the same way through the marvelous fruit of
the Spirit produced by the Holy Ghost in your soul.

Faith is stored in the soul. Claim it.

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The fruit of humility, meekness takes away the haughty ways. Meek, humble, lowly, you put the
Holy Spirit in control, not self. Let all the fruits work in your life.

Children must be kept under control, or when they are grown, they will have great difficulty
bringing themselves under the control of the Holy Spirit. Don't let your children throw fits,
tantrums. When my niece was little she would knock her head on the floor to spite her mother.
Her mother didn't know what to do. She spanked her, talked to her, did whatever she could think
of. Then one day it dawned on her; she would help her daughter bump her head. That was the end
of the head bumping. After that my little niece had self-control.

Don't let your children bluff you. Use discipline. Say what you mean, and mean what you say.
Don't just have thunder, have the lightning. God gives parents wisdom and knowledge when they
cooperate with Him. Children need much love, love with discipline.

Jesus told the disciples, Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt
you (Luke 10:19). Through the power of God, they would resist the devil himself and the devil
would flee. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you (James 4:7). The devil can't stand before the power of heaven.

God has much to tell you in this final hour. You who want the greatness of God can have it. You
can have the same favor, that Jesus had, the same peace when you totally submit yourself to God.

What is in your soul? If you are saved and have gone on to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit,
all the love, faith, greatness of the Holy Ghost, the nine fruits of the Spirit are yours. Jesus-strength
comes in every fruit of the Spirit, all the strength of heaven. All heaven backs up the obedient
Children of God. But have you looked into your soul and found it desolate? If so, come to Jesus.
Say the sinners' prayer with me now: Dear God: Save my soul. I'm so sorry I sinned against you,
but I have come home. I'm going to serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe the blood of Jesus
washes away all of my sins. Come on in, Jesus! Come into my heart!

If you meant that prayer, He has come.

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I am here to teach you. I am carefully teaching you what you

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must have for the rest of the journey. Let your heart rejoice day and night as I feed you with the
manna from above. I am giving you strength because you must have it. I am giving you my
power—you must have it. I am giving you my compassion and love and faith in abundance, and
you must have it. You must never let go of it. Keep it in your soul.

I will visit with you night and day. I will reveal myself in great and wonderful manifestations in
this your last hour. My power will be the bombs that you will use to drop on the kingdom of
Satan. My power is yours for you to use, and I will pour myself through you in all of my
greatness. I will reveal to the inhabitants of the Earth my love in every way that I can because my
judgment will soon come. I am listening to the faintest cry because soon I will turn a deaf ear to
all cries, saith the Lord. I give you vision. My call is upon you. You do not need fear that you will
fail—you cannot fail as long as you yield to my Spirit. You will be obedient as long as you yield to
my Spirit. Do not live in fear of failing me. Know through my faith that you will not fail. Know
through my love that you will carry out my plans for you.

I will breathe upon you again and again with my greatness, and you will do my work in this your
last hour. You will do my work in such perfection that you will be amazed the way that I work
through you, saith the Lord.

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