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Heart Cleansing June 11


I consequently learned that the one important thing was to have the Lord possess the center and at the center He would possess all the rest and would guard and protect it all Himself. And I saw that the way to get Him to set up His throne in the center was simply to accept by faith that His precious blood really did cleanse my heart from all corruption, and make it pure in His sight, casting out the carnal nature and crucifying the old man of sin. So that one could truthfully say, “I have put off the old man which is corrupt etc.” “I am dead to sin” “I am crucified with Christ” etc.


And to believe further that having made the heart pure, and a fit dwelling place for Himself, He does indeed come in and take up His dwelling there and sets up His kingdom and possesses all things. So that I can go on to say, “And I have put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. I am dead it is true, but also I am alive to God in Jesus Christ my Lord.” “I am crucified indeed, but nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me!”
I took this step of faith, and I’m standing firm. Discouragements are all around, but I don’t dare pay any attention to them. God’s unalterable plan is that “according to your faith, it shall be unto you.”
—Journal, September 3, 1871