Me: That was some shindig at your place.

Prodigal: Glad we could all relax and have fun!

This is from the book Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray

Listen to the words in which our Lord speaks of His relation to the Father, and how unceasingly He uses the words not, and nothing, of Himself. The not I, in which Paul expresses his relation to Christ, is the very spirit of what Christ says of His relation the Father.

“The son can do nothing of Himself” (John 5:19) “I can of My own self do nothing; My judgment is just, because I seek not Mine own will” (John 5:30) “I receive not glory from men” (John 5:41) “I am come not to do Mine own will” (John 6:38) “My teaching is not Mine” (John 7:16) “I am not come of Myself” (John 7:28) “I do nothing of Myself” (John 8:28) “I have not come of Myself, but He sent Me” (John 8:42). “I seek not Mine own glory” (John 8:50) “The words that I say, I speak not from Myself” (John 14:10). “The word which ye hear is not Mine” (John 14:24).

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, 2 Timothy 1:9 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

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