Is This The Place?

Paul S. Rees tells of a Keswick conference in which a preacher enumerated the great blessings which came in his ministry as a consequence of Spirit-filled service. After the service, a young pastor asked the preacher how he could be Spirit-filled.  The preacher said to the young pastor, “I can take you to the place where I was filled,  and anyone can be filled at that place. Would you like to come with me?”

“Yes, by all means,” the young pastor replied.
So they walked out of the conference grounds and started up a mountain. As they sauntered along, the preacher kept talking about the glory resulting from a Spirit-filled life. Once in a while the young man would ask when they came to a clearing in the woods, “Is this the place?” “No, but it isn’t much farther; it’s a little distance, yet.” They kept walking. The preacher kept talking.  The young man’s thirst kept increasing. They reached a plateau, and the young pastor asked again, “Is this the place?”

He asked the same question when they walked out into a valley. He asked again at the edge of a clearing. He asked at the top of each hill. “Is this the place?” He asked again and again.
Finally, he could stand it no longer. He fell upon his knees, and all but shouted, “I can’t go any farther. I must pray to be filled right now!”

The preacher turned and said to the young man: “This is the place! This is the place!”

Do you see?
When we come to the place where we can’t go any farther, and we want to be filled with the Spirit that’s the place where we will be filled!

 If we want the mantle, we must be there when it falls. This necessitates obedience: “The Holy Spirit… is given by God to all that obey Him.”

In the Bonds of Calvary,