Wait for the Manifestation
Faith must lead me to the actual inheritance of the promise and to the experience and enjoyment of it. Do not rest content with a belief that does not lead to experience. Rest in God by faith in the full assurance that He can make Himself known to you in a manner that is truly divine. At times the whole process may appear to you too great and too wonderful and really impossible.
Do not be afraid. The more clearly you discern the fact that you have said to God that He may have you to make you fill of His Holy Spirit, the more you will feel what a miracle of the grace of God it is. There may be in the things you are not aware of which hinder the breaking forth of the blessing. God is bent on putting them aside. Let them be consumed in the fire. Let them be annihilated in the flame of God's countenance and His love. Let your expectation be fixed on the Lord your God.
He who raised up the dead Jesus to the life of glory will just as miraculously bring this heavenly blessing to fruition in you. Then you may be filled with the Holy Spirit, and know, not by reasoning but by experience, that you have actually received the Holy Spirit.
God desires to make you full of the Holy Spirit. He would have your whole nature and life under the power of the Holy Spirit. He asks if you really desire to have it. Let there be in your answer no uncertain sound, but let all that is within you cry out: "Yes, Lord, with all my heart." Let this promise of your God become the chief element in your life, the most precious, the only thing you seek. Do not be content to think and pray over it, but this very day enter into a transaction with God that will admit of no doubt concerning the choice you have made.
When you have made this choice, cleave firmly to the faith that expects this blessing as a miracle of divine omnipotence. The more earnestly you exercise that faith, the more it will teach you that your heart must be entirely emptied and set free from every fetter, to be filled with the Spirit. You may take it for granted that it will surely come.
~Andrew Murray~
(continued with # 27 - "How It May Be Strengthened")
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