Eph 3:16 That He would grant you... to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, (17) That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith,
Our heart is composed of all the parts of our soul--the mind, the emotion, and the will--plus our conscience, the main part of our spirit. These are the inward parts of our being. Through regeneration, Christ came into our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22). Subsequently, we should allow Him to spread Himself into every part of our heart. Our heart is the totality of all our inward parts and the center of our inward being; therefore, when Christ makes His home in our heart, He controls our entire inward being and supplies and strengthens every inward part with Himself. ...Christ's indwelling is mysterious and abstract. We realize it not by our physical senses, but by the sense of faith. When we were saved, Christ came into our spirit. Now we must give Him the opportunity to spread Himself throughout all the parts of our inner being. As we are strengthened into the inner man, the door is opened for Christ to spread in us, to spread from our spirit to every part of our mind, emotion, and will. The more Christ spreads within us, the more He settles down in us and makes His home in us. This means that He occupies every part of our inner being, possessing all these parts and saturating them with Himself. [For example, when Christ makes His home in our hearts, we will not think of ourselves first, we will have love for those that trouble us, and it will be a joy to choose God's will.]
Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Witness Lee, Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 280-282. Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA. Please visit us at www.emanna.com. Send comments to: [email protected].
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