Newest Writings
- Character And Performance (Podcast Transcription)
Shulamite Podcast #72 (Transcription) with Martha Kilpatrick and hosted by John Enslow Special Guests Julie Wilson and friends (M) So Julie’s point of personality becomes who you give......
- Personality Versus Temperament (Podcast Transcription)
Shulamite Podcast #71 (Transcription) with Martha Kilpatrick and hosted by John Enslow Special Guest Julie Wilson (J) Well we are in Lubbock, Texas. We’re at the Aromas coffee house. And we......
- All Passions Spent (Podcast Transcription)
Shulamite Podcast #70 (Transcription) with Martha Kilpatrick and hosted by John Enslow (M) John, last time I made a statement in the Podcast, and that statement someone picked up on and it kind of......
- The Inner Life (Podcast Transcription)
Shulamite Podcast #69 (Transcription) with Martha Kilpatrick and hosted by John Enslow Additional Guest Don Nelson (M) John I want to insert before we go to the podcast, this scripture that I......
Mission Statement
Is to know Him... Philippians 3:10
and make Him known...
On Knowing the Lord
by T. Austin-Sparks
"That I may know....." - Phil. 3:10.
"Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know Me." - John 14:9; (A.S.V.).
Phil. 1:10; Heb. 8:11; I John 2:20, 27.
It is of the greatest importance for the Lord's children to recognize fully that, above all other things, His object is that they should know Him. This is the all-governing end of all His dealings with us. This is the greatest of all our needs.
It is the secret of strength, steadfastness, and service. It determines the measure of our usefulness to Him. It was the one passion of the life of the apostle Paul for himself. It was the cause of his unceasing striving for the saints. It is the heart and pivot of the whole letter to the Hebrews. It was the secret of the life, service, endurance, confidence of the Lord Jesus as Son of Man.
Personal, inward, spiritual intelligence is a very rare thing. No wonder that the enemy has such a successful line in delusions, counterfeits, and false representations. Our greatest safeguard against such will be a deep knowledge of the Lord through discipline.
To know the Lord in a real way means steadfastness when others are being carried away - steadfastness through times of fiery trial. Those who know the Lord do not put forth their own hand and try to bring things about. Such are full of love and patience, and do not lose their poise when everything seems to be going to pieces. Confidence is an essential and inevitable fruit of this knowledge, and in those who know Him there is a quiet restful strength which speaks of a great depth of life.
