Are we really a surrendered people part 2

Last week we looked at the first 6 of 10 points concerning the matter of our “Daily” fellowship with God. If you are not having a daily fellowship with the Lord, you are starving spiritually. We don’t miss too many meals in a day without feeling it very quickly. Yet we will pass up a daily Bible reading, or a quite time of prayer in an instant. We are just “too busy” it seems to do the most important things.
Has your family missed out on the joy of hearing the Bible read aloud? Have you removed the opportunity for your little ones to learn hymns and Psalms, so they might have songs to sing for encouragement for themselves and praise to God? Here are the last four points taken from Andrew Murray’s work The Deeper Christian Life.

7. The likeness to Christ consists chiefly in two things-the likeness of His death and resurrection, (Rom_6:5). The death of Christ was the consummation of His humility and obedience, the entire giving up of His life to God. In Him we are dead to sin. As we sink down in humility and dependence and entire surrender to God, the power of His death works in us, and we are made conformable to His death. And so we know Him in the power of His resurrection, in the victory over sin, and all the joy and power of the risen life. Therefore every morning, “present yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead.” He will maintain the life He gave, and bestow the grace to live as risen ones.
8. All this can only be in the power of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in you. Count upon Him to glorify Christ in you. Count upon Christ to increase in you the inflowing of His Spirit. As you wait before God to realize His presence, remember that the Spirit is in you to reveal the things of God. Seek in God’s presence to have the anointing of the Spirit of Christ so truly that your whole life may every moment be spiritual.
9. As you meditate on this wondrous salvation and seek full fellowship with the great and holy God, and wait on Him to reveal Christ in you, you will feel how needful the giving up of all is to receive Him. Seek grace to know what it means to live as wholly for God as Christ did. Only the Holy Spirit Himself can teach you what an entire yielding of the whole life to God can mean. Wait on God to show you in this, what you do not know. Let every approach to God and every request for fellowship with Him be accompanied by a new, very definite, and entire surrender to Him to work in you.
10. “By faith” must here, as through all Scripture, and all the spiritual life, be the keynote. As you tarry before God, let it be in a deep quiet faith in Him, the Invisible One, who is so near, so holy, so mighty, so loving. In a deep, restful faith too, that all the blessings and powers of the heavenly life are around you, and in you. Just yield yourself in the faith of a perfect trust to the Ever Blessed Holy Trinity to work out all God’s purpose in you. Begin each day thus in fellowship with God, and God will be all in all to you.

Pastor