DYING TO SELF
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When
you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught and you don't sting
and hurt with insult; but you heart is happy being counted worthy to suffer for
Christ...that is DYING TO SELF.
When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your
advice is disregarded, your opinion ridiculed and you refuse to let anger rise
in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient, loving
silence...that is DYING TO SELF.
When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, and irregularity, or
annoyance; when you stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance,
spiritual insensibility and endure it as Jesus endured......that is DYING TO
SELF.
When you are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any
society, any raiment, any interruption by the will of God…that is DYING TO
SELF.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation or to record
your own good words or itch after commendations, when you can truly love to be
unknown...that is DYING TO SELF.
When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and can
honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy or question God while your
own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances...that is DYING TO
SELF.
When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than
yourself and humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion
or resentment rising up in your heart...that is DYING TO SELF.
Are you dead yet? In these last days, the Spirit would bring us to the cross, "That I may know Him...being made conformable unto His death". (Phil. 3:10)
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The prayers and confessions are compiled by the Word Training Center to bless the body of Christ. I wrote some, but I do not know the names of the writers of all of them or even remember where I got most. My intent is to get these out to be a blessing and learning tool in your walk with Jesus. Pray them then as it says in Heb. 4:14b “let us hold fast our confession.” Pastor Randy Mattern
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