Our Spirit-touch.

A third result will be this:  we will be reaching out and winning men in all the rest of the world by our spirit-touch.  You may be in some African fastness or in the midst of China’s age-old civilization or just here at home, but you can be exerting a tremendous spirit-power that can be felt out to the ends of the earth.

It will all be in the Name of Jesus.  It will be in the power of the Holy Spirit.  Only in that Name and through the Spirit can such winning influence be exerted at all.  So a man can have spirit-touch with the man by his side.  And just as truly he can have spirit-touch with men at the farthest reach of the earth.

There is a spirit influence going out from each of us in addition to that which goes through the direct personal touch.  It is not a conscious influence.  That is, we are not concsious that it is being exerted.  It goes out from us as we pray.  It goes out of us as our thought is centered on those far-away parts and peoples.  Its strength will depend on the strength of one’s personality.

We are familiar with the fact that a man of strong personality has a greater influence upon his fellows whom he touches directly than a weaker man has.  It is just the same with regard to one’s spirit-touch.  The stronger and keener and purer I may become, the more I know of the self-mastery which comes through Jesus-mastery, the greater force can I exert as a winner of men, both by direct touch and by spirit-touch.

Will you kindly come up nearer in spirit, as we close our talk together, and let me ask softly:  Have we given the free use of ourselves to the Master?  Are we growing ourselves into bigger-sized, finer-grained, better-controlled men and women daily?  For the Master is depending on us.  He is counting much on having the use of us.  He can reach out to the very ends of the earth through each one of us.  May we not fail Jesus!

Jesus

  Jesus Draws Men. 
  Jesus Draws Out the Best. 
  Many Doors, but One Purpose. 
  Make It a Story. 
  How Peter Told Paul. 
  “A More Excellent Way.”

Jesus

Jesus Draws Men.

The great heart-magnet is God.  No one is so winsomely attractive as He.  His winning power is beyond any other.  Man is winsome.  But it is because God made him winsome, and re-makes him yet more winsome.  He gave him a bit of His own self.  That’s the secret of all our human winsomeness.

Now Jesus is God to us.  We know God only as we know Jesus.  Jesus is the heart of God beating in time and tune with human hearts.  Nobody is so winsome as Jesus.  All the native winsomeness of man and all the divine winsomeness of God combine and blend in Him.  He has always drawn men to Himself.  And He still does, and always will.