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Download QuickTime Player Toward the Center...(Download mp3 Audio) "Experiencing The Depths of Jesus Christ" by Madame Jeanne Guyon In the last chapter we discussed dealing with the outward senses. Here was our conclusion: If at any time you find your desires stirred up, those senses can best be deadened by a gentle retreat inward to a present God. Any other way of opposing your restless senses will merely stimulate them further. As you come into this deeper level of knowing the Lord, you will eventually come ot discover a principle I will call the law of central tendency. What do I mean by the law of central tendency? As you continue holding your soul deep in your inward parts, you will discover that God has a magnetic attracting quality! Your God is like a magnet! The Lord naturally draws you more and more toward Himself. The next thing you notice is this: As you move toward the center, the Lord purifies you of all the things that are not of Him. This is illustrated in natu...

Download QuickTime Player Living Indoors...(Download mp3 Audio) "Experiencing The Depths of Jesus Christ" by Madame Jeanne Guyon In the last chapter we concluded by saying that the believer who is utterly in love with the Lord will not even desire the things that might offend the object of his affection. I will go on to say it is only by abandonment that it is possible to reach that total victory in subduing your senses and your desires. Why is this so? Actually, the reason is very obvious. First of all, you must understand the workings of your innermost parts. Where do your five senses draw their life and energy? From your soul. It is your soul that gives life and energy to your five senses; and when your senses become aroused, they in turn stimulate your desires. How can we speak of total victory over the five senses and over the passions and desire that becomes aroused through them? If your body were dead, you would not be able to feel, and you certainly would have no desi...

Download QuickTime Player Abandonment and A Holy Life...(Download mp3 Audio) "Experiencing The Depths of Jesus Christ" by Madame Jeanne Guyon Recap & Intro: Chapter 6: Abandonment To penetrate deeper in the experience of Jesus Christ, it is required that you begin to abandon your whole existence, giving it up to God. Let us take the daily occurrences of life as an illustration. You must utterly believe that the circumstances of your life, that is every minute of your life, as well as the whole course of your life--anything, yes, everything that happens--have all come to you by His will and by His permission. You must utterly believe that everything that has happened to you is from God and is exactly what you need. Chapter 7: Abandonment & Suffering You must be patient in all the suffering that God sends you. If your love for the Lord is pure, you will love Him as much on Calvary as on Mount Tabor. The Lord Jesus loved His father on Mount Tabor where He was transfigure...

Download QuickTime Player Youv'e Been Bought with a Price...(Download mp3 Audio) You know God is good to bring the message anyway he wants to. I didn’t know really what Phil was going to preach this morning. I just want you to know that was not a lot of elaboration or collaboration or anything to decide how things should be said or anything. So we’ve had an experience where God's shown up this morning. I am not going to read it but I want to give you an assignment for this week, that we just don’t have time to do this here but this is a word of the Lord for you this week and a word of the Lord for us. Phil basically said it, "What’s real and what’s not real?" This has nothing to do with Madame Guyon , but it has everything to do with Jesus. Isaiah Chapter One, God comes to Israel and they have got all the patterns down. They are worshiping who they know, at least the patterns of who they know. Phil eluded to the fact that maybe we are all tired of going...

Download QuickTime Player Abandonment and Revelation...(Download mp3 Audio) "Experiencing The Depths of Jesus Christ" by Madame Jeanne Guyon Let us continue viewing this matter of abandonment. Some have asked the question, “If I utterly abandon myself to the Lord, will that mean I will have no new revelation of Jesus Christ?” Does abandonment end revelation? No, it does not. Quite the contrary, abandonment is the means that the Lord will use to give you revelation. The revelation you receive will come to you as reality rather than knowledge. This is made possible only by abandonment. You must remember to whom it is you are abandoning yourself. It is to the Lord Jesus that you abandon yourself. It is also the Lord whom you will follow as the Way; it is this Lord that you will hear as the Truth, and it is from this Lord that you will receive Life. (john 14:6) If you follow Him as the Way, you will hear Him as the Truth, and He will bring Life to you as the Life. As revelation ...

Download QuickTime Player Abandonment and Suffering...(Download mp3 Audio) "Experiencing The Depths of Jesus Christ" by Madame Jeanne Guyon I would like to continue speaking to you about abandonment, but in this chapter let us see how much consecration affects you when suffering comes into your life. You must be patient in all the suffering that God sends you. If your love for the Lord is pure, you will love Him as much on Calvary as on Mount Tabor. The Lord Jesus loved His father on Mount Tabor where He was transfigured, but He loved Him no less on Calvary where He was crucified. Surely, then you should love the Lord as much on Calvary, for it was there that He made the greatest display of His love. There is a possibility that you might make a mistake concerning your abandonment to the Lord. You may abandon yourself to the Lord hoping and expecting always to be caressed and loved and spiritually blessed by Him. You who have given yourself to the Lord during some pleasant se...

Download QuickTime Player Abandonment...(Download mp3 Audio) "Experiencing The Depths of Jesus Christ" by Madame Jeanne Guyon At the outset of this book we discussed how to know the depths of Jesus Christ. Our beginning was quite simple. We looked first at praying the Scripture and then the simplicity of just beholding the Lord. After you have pursued this level of experience with the Lord for a considerable length of time, you then should be ready to go on to a deeper level of experience with Him and a deeper level of knowing Him. But in this deeper encounter with the Lord which we looked at in Chapter 4, you must move outside the realm of prayer alone; or, to state it more clearly, you must move away from just that one or two times a day you set apart for prayer with the Lord. At this point there must enter into your heart whole new attitudes toward your entire life. If you are to branch out beyond just a time of prayer each day, other parts of your life-and even your who...