Dear saints,
Back in the early ‘90’s, our Lord God Almighty was flooding me with just outstanding gospel content after the cry of my heart.
I was thoroughly disenchanted with the carnal house church movement, and the American gospel that pervaded everything we saw. These true gospel pieces were a fresh wind of the Holy Spirit in a parched and dry desert.
Mysteriously, this piece originally showed up labeled as Dying to Self. It had great merit…but it was terribly wrong as written wanting us wrongly to “die” every day. We’re already “dead to sin and alive to God.” So, I rewrote it as true Truth.
All honor and glory to our Lord…as He gives us His glory now to His obedient children!
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Dead to Self – By Unknown
When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at naught, and your flesh begins to sting and hurt with the insult of the oversight…but you overcome this test by the power of the Holy Spirit, and your heart becomes joyful, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ…
That is being dead to self.
When your good is evil spoken of, your holy preaching of God’s word ridiculed, and you refuse to let unrighteous anger rise in your heart…but instead you continue to boldly defend the name of our wonderful heavenly Father, and His Jesus…
That is being dead to self.
When you boldly, lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, or any annoyance, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, when you can stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility…and still rebuke it and endure it just as Jesus endured it…
That is being dead to self.
When you are content with any food, any offering, any raiment, any climate, any society, any attitude, any interruption by the will of God…and still give the great sacrifice of thanksgiving to Him…
That is being dead to self.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good works, or itch after commendation, when you can truly love to be unknown…and instead are yearning for your Home in heaven with Him…
That is being dead to self.
When you see your brother prosper and have his needs met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances…and still continue to give sacrificially like your poor brethren the Macedonians…
That is being dead to self.
When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself, can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart…and even see the loving hand of the Father behind this help to walk worthy with Him…
That is being dead to self.
Amen.
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Your friend and brother in fighting the good fight,
Marc
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Saints, we’re one day closer to Home, and Him! Love Him wholeheartedly!
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Marc White, Director, Walk Worthy Ministries, www.WalkWorthy.org
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