Bring Them Hither to Me
The Holy Spirit's filling is available through the trials and difficulties in our lives, and can be received by bringing our needs to God in faith and prayer.
A.B. Simpson emphasizes the necessity of bringing our needs and trials to God, suggesting that these challenges are opportunities for the Holy Spirit's filling and blessings. He encourages believers to recognize their difficulties as divine vessels for receiving God's grace and to approach Him in faith and prayer. Simpson urges the faithful to cease their own efforts and allow God to work in their lives, assuring that through surrender, their trials will transform into testimonies of God's glory. The message calls for a deep trust in God's timing and methods, inviting believers to experience a fuller anointing of the Holy Spirit.
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Why have you not received all the fullness of the Holy Spirit? Do you not long to be anointed with the rest of the oil? (Leviticus 14:17-18). Look around you at your situation. Are you not conscious of many needs at this very moment and almost overwhelmed with difficulties, trials and emergencies? These are all divinely provided vessels for the Holy Spirit's filling. If you would only understand their meaning, they will become opportunities for receiving new blessings and deliverances which you can obtain in no other way. Bring these vessels to God. Hold them steadily before Him in faith and prayer. Keep still. Cease your own restless working until He begins to work. Do nothing that He does not Himself command you to do.
Give Him a chance to work, and He will surely do so.
Then the very trials that threatened to overcome you with discouragement and disaster will become God's opportunity for the revelation of His grace and glory in your life, as you have never known Him before. Bring them [all needs] to me.
Sermon Outline
- Understanding the Need for the Holy Spirit
- Preparing to Receive the Holy Spirit
- Receiving the Holy Spirit's Filling
- God's opportunity for revelation and glory
- Overcoming discouragement and disaster
Key Quotes
“Bring these vessels to God. Hold them steadily before Him in faith and prayer.” — A.B. Simpson
“Do nothing that He does not Himself command you to do.” — A.B. Simpson
“Give Him a chance to work, and He will surely do so.” — A.B. Simpson
Application Points
- We must learn to recognize the opportunities for receiving new blessings in our lives, and bring them to God in faith and prayer.
- Waiting on God and ceasing our own efforts is essential for receiving the Holy Spirit's filling.
- God's opportunity for revelation and glory in our lives can be found in the midst of trials and difficulties.