I Can See Clearly Now, Part 3
We saw D. L. Moody claim the power of The Holy Spirit and receive His Power. And now we look at Dr. Walter L Wilson:
They Found the Secret
Chapter 18 The Yielded Life
Dr. Walter L Wilson:
Then came January 14, 1914. Dr. James M. Gray, at that time a clergyman of the Reformed Episcopal Church, and later the beloved and revered president of Moody Bible Institute, was speaking in Kansas City on Romans 12:1. Dr. Wilson recalls the impact of that message:
Romans 12:1-2 (NKJV) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
“Leaning over the pulpit, he said, ‘Have you noticed that this verse does not tell us to whom we should give our bodies? It is not the Lord Jesus Who asks for it. He has His own body It is not the Father Who asks for it. He remains upon His
throne. Another has come to earth without a body God could have made a body for Him as He did for Jesus, but He did not do so. God gives you the privilege and the indescribable honor of presenting your bodies to the Holy Spirit, to be His
dwelling place on earth. If you have been washed in the Blood of the Lamb then yours is a holy body, washed whiter than snow, and will be accepted by the Spirit when you give it. Will you do so now?'”
At the conclusion of the service, Dr. Wilson and his father in-law, who had attended the meeting with him, returned home. Each went at once to his own room. Utterly heartbroken over his fruitless life, yet filled with a great hope because
of the message he had heard from a teacher in whom he had all confidence, Dr. Wilson lay upon the carpet of his study, prostrate in God’s presence. Hear his testimony:
This next prayer just totally destroys me. Remember in the last chapter where I, well it was John the Baptist that said it, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” Here is how to do that, but careful you better make sure you mean it before you dare pray it, I recommend reading over it a few times. This is Him increasing, and you decreasing.
“There, in the quiet of that late hour, I said to the Holy Spirit, ‘My Lord, I have mistreated You all my Christian life. I have treated You like a servant. When I wanted You, I called for You; when I was about to engage in some work, I beckoned You to come and help me perform my task. I have kept You in the place of a servant. I have sought to use You only as a willing servant to help me in my self-appointed and chosen work. I shall do so no more. Just now I give You this body of mine; from my head to my feet, I give it to You. I give You my hands, my limbs, my eyes and lips, my brain; all that I am within and without, I hand over to You for You to live in it the life that You please. You may send this body to Africa, or lay it on a bed with cancer. You may blind the eyes, or send me with Your message to Tibet. You may take this body to the Eskimos, or send it to a hospital with pneumonia. It is your body from this moment on. Help yourself to it. Thank You, my Lord, I believe You have accepted it, for in Romans twelve and one You said “acceptable unto God.” Thank You again, my Lord, for taking me. We now belong to each other.'”
And what were the results of that surrender of body and appropriation of the fullness of the Holy Spirit?
The very next morning two young ladies came to the office to sell advertising, as they had done previously. Up to that time the doctor had never spoken to them about the Lord Jesus because his lips had been his own and he had used them for
business purposes. Now that his lips had been given away, the Holy Spirit was to use them; and He did so at once. Out of brief conversation and testimony to his visitors. Dr. Wilson led both of them to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. They were the first fruits of a great harvest of souls that Dr. Wilson won for the Savior.
Hundreds of thousands have been thrilled and challenged by the doctor’s experiences in soul winning.
And now we see Dr. Walter L Wilson do as I had to do and what you too will have to do to receive the power and indwelling of God’s Holy Spirit and that is Surrendering All.
“All to Jesus I surrender, All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him, In His presence daily live.
I surrender all, I surrender all;
All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.”
We saw Oswald Chambers obedience to Ask for The Holy Spirit. And D. L. Moody Seek (claim) the power of The Holy Spirit. And now Dr. Walter L Wilson Knock, and surrender to The Holy Spirit. And when these men did take that “Breath” the whole world took notice. Like I said I believe that we have all the Holy Spirit of God within us we will ever get at the moment of salvation but the question is, does He have all of you that He, will ever get?
Luke 11:9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened…13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” NKJV
In the story in Luke about “The Road to Emmaus” we can see clearly.
Luke 24:30 Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight.
32 And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” 33 So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, 34 saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” 35 And they told about the things that had happened on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of bread. NKJV
Can You See Clearly Now with the Indwelling of The Holy Spirit?
If so, rise and go, and tell others what Christ Jesus has done for you!
For,
The Lord Is Risen Indeed!
