d still less what you might expect of Him. But your failures
have taught it you. And now you begin to see how you have been grieving
Him, by not trusting and not following Him, by not allowing Him to work
in you all God's pleasure.

All this can be changed. Just as you, after seeking Christ, and praying
to Him, and trying without success to serve Him, found rest in accepting
Him by faith, just so you may even now yield yourself to the full
guidance of the Holy Spirit, and claim and accept Him to work in you
what God would have. Will you not do it? Just accept Him in faith as
Christ's gift, to be the Spirit of your whole life, of your prayer-life
too, and you can count upon Him to take charge. You can then begin,
however feeble you feel, and unable to pray aright, to bow before God in
silence, with the assurance that He will teach you to pray.

My dear brother, as you consciously by faith accepted Christ, to pardon,
you can consciously now in the like faith accept of Christ who gives the
Holy Spirit to do His work in you. "Christ redeemed us that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit by faith." Kneel down, and simply
believe that the Lord Christ, who baptizeth with the Holy Spirit, does
now, in response to your faith, begin in you the blessed life of a full
experience of the power of the indwelling Spirit. Depend most
confidently upon Him, apart from all feeling or experience, as the
Spirit of supplication and intercession to do His work. Renew that act
of faith each morning, each time you pray; trust Him, against all
appearances, to work in you,--be sure He is working,--and He will give
you to know what the joy of the Holy Spirit is as the power of your
life.

"I will pour out the Spirit of supplication." Do you not begin to see
that the mystery of prayer is the mystery of the Divine indwelling. God
in heaven gives His Spirit in our hearts to be there the Divine power
praying in us, and drawing us upward to our God. God is a Spirit, and
nothing but a like life and Spirit within us can hold communion with
Him. It was for this man was created, that God might dwell and work in
Him, and be the life of his life. It was this Divine indwelling that sin
lost. It was this that Christ came to exhibit in His life, to win back
for us in His death, and then to impart to us by coming again from
heaven in the Spirit to live in His disciples. It is this, the
indwelling of God through the Spirit, that alone can explain and enable