Let me ask you how you treat this divine Guest. I am now speaking reverently of God’s presence. How often do you think of it in the day that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit? If the queen were to come, and for a time take up her abode with any of us, we should think of nothing else. But what of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us? We think not of it half the day; but we do think of it if we do all things so as to please the Lord.

The effectual presence of the Spirit crucifies egotism, and gives freedom of thought about ourselves while on the way; it occupies us with one object—Jesus.

Where the life of the flesh ends, the life of the Spirit begins, and practically we have power in the life of the Spirit in proportion as the flesh is dead.

To have the Spirit is one thing; to be filled with the Holy Spirit is another. When He is the one source of my thought, I am filled with Him. When He has possession of my heart, there is power to silence what is not of God, to keep my soul from evil, and to guide in every act of my life and walk.

Sometime there may be need to rebuke, but the flesh cannot rebuke the flesh, nor will the flesh submit to it; but if you indeed walk in the Spirit, you will have God’s authority according to your measure, and Satan will yield to the Spirit.

The Spirit is overflowing like “rivers of living water” (Jn. 7:38) from the soul of him in whom He has entered, flowing on all around; it may be on the good soil, or on the barren sand, but still His nature and power is ever to flow forth.