Wisdom of the Ages

Ichabod Spencer

“To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry”
Ichabod Spencer

It is in Christ alone where the strength and the power of life reside; all other resources are miserable, fleeting and wretched. They that live in the flesh cannot please God. The woman at the well came to know that Jesus is the well from which flows the river of His life into the lost and barren of this world. It is in our coming to Him that He becomes the well within our very being…

“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water”
John 7:38

Wisdom of the Ages

“Love is a plant of heavenly origin. The unconsecrated heart cannot originate or produce it. It is found only in the heart where Jesus reigns.”
– Evangline Booth

“It is called the fruit of the Spirit as it is of Him, by Him and through Him. The works and energies of the flesh will never produce the wonder of the Life of Christ”
Brian Troxel

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love…”
Galatians 5:22

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