March (part 2 of 2)
We must be careful not to have wrong motives in our hearts, even in serving the Lord, because the devil will try to put them in us, so that the testimony of Jesus may be dishonoured, and confusion be brought into the churches. You can always tell false prophets by their love for money. No matter what their income, they will never be satisfied. They will be constantly hinting or making some kind of reference to their need in order to extract money from people. You must be careful when you come across such people. There are some preachers who claim to have the gift of healing. They advertise themselves in attractive posters to give wide publicity to their gifts of healing. At the same time they adopt all kinds of clever devices to get money from the people. May the Lord protect us from all such men.
The moment we entertain in our hearts, love for money, the devil will lead us into some place where we can get plenty of it. If we have a secret love for popularity, Satan will attract us to people who flatter us, and thus we will go astray from the will of God. Satan has power to make our own hearts deceive us. Our constant prayer should be, "Lord, remove all unworthy and wrong motives from my heart and make me a Spirit-filled servant of Thine, whom Thou canst use anytime, anywhere".
MARCH 20
"And he (Christ) is the head of the body, the church" (Col 1:18).
In Ephesians 1:23 the Church is called the Body of Christ. Those who have not received the life of the Lord Jesus Christ have no right to be called the members of His Body. For instance, take a man with an artificial leg. It may be a very good leg, and may help the man to walk very nicely. Yet it is not a part of his body. It has to be fixed with many bolts, nuts and straps into its position, otherwise it may fall down somewhere. Now in what way is your arm joined to your body? Is it held by nuts, bolts and straps? No, the human life flowing through all the members of the body holds them together. In the same way those who are born again and in whom the life of the Lord Jesus has been poured, are the members of the Body of Christ, which is the Church.
In the human body there are many members and many organs: head, hands, feet, eyes, blood vessels. Some are large and some are small. No man would happily lose a member of his body. Every member is necessary and important, and has a function to fulfil. In the same way every one of us, who is a member in the Body of Christ, has a service to fulfil and a gift to exercise. We have to fulfil our allotted part faithfully and also be satisfied to be what we are. Whoever you are, if you are a member in the Body of Christ your service is equally important and precious to the Lord.
The secret of true joy and usefulness is this: you must realize that you are a member in the Body of Christ, and Christ is your Head. Suppose the members of a human body could all move separately without the control of the head; you cannot even imagine it! The human body is not like that. The members are all governed by the head and they act in unity. In the same way the members of the Church have to be controlled by the Head, Christ. Then only can you have the living Church. If God's fulness is to be seen in an assembly or church, it is essential that every member individually, and the church as a whole, should acknowledge Christ as the Head. Because of failure to do this many assemblies have no life. The people are governed by ungodly men, and leaders are governed by personal interest. The result is, there are parties, strife and quarrels among them.
MARCH 21
"... I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ" (2 Cor. 11:2).
It is through the blood of the Lamb alone that our sins are forgiven and cleansed at the new birth, and it is only through the blood of the Lamb that we can get daily cleansing from the defilement of the way. The devil tries to bring some defilement constantly in our lives, because as long as we are in the flesh our old nature is still there. We will never attain perfection upon this earth. We find in our old nature which is called the "old man" in Rom. 6, that there is a tendency to be defiled again and again but we have to be kept constantly cleansed from these defilements. Evil thoughts can never be prevented by human efforts. Even though your eyes are closed in prayer, you find evil thoughts coming in. At the time of prayer and worship you will find such thoughts gaining entrance, or in the quiet of the night. Again, we are made to hear certain things which create defilement and such defilement cannot be removed by human effort. By the blood of the Lamb we can be washed and kept clean.
In Revelation 19:8 we read about the Bride, "to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white." The word "granted" indicates that her desire was to be kept clean and because of her faith she was granted that fine linen clean and white. We also need to be cleansed daily. When a person is sensitive to uncleanness he wants everything to be kept clean every day. In the same way, spiritually we must long to be kept clean. The very second we find defilement entering in, we must desire cleansing through faith, by the blood of the Lamb, and we must claim that blood thousand times a day. The Lamb will never refuse us. He is willing and ready to cleanse us whenever we go to Him. Cleansing by His blood and constant washing by His Word gives us clean and white linen, which is the Church's preparation to be the Bride of the Lamb.
In 2 Cor. 11:2,3, Paul speaks of presenting the believers as a chaste virgin before the Lord Jesus Christ. We know how one thought of unfaithfulness on the part of the wife grieves the husband. We have to be so prepared that we may be presented before the Lord without blemish. Having come to Him, we must refuse to give the least ground to the devil and his hosts, and also refuse to allow even a little defilement to remain in us. Our Lord has made abundant provision to wash us and keep us clean and if we, through our blindness refuse to be washed, we have no part with Him (John 13:8). The believer must be extremely sensitive to any defilement. The devil will try again and again to bring defilement, but we must claim cleansing by the blood.
The false church is compared to a whore, - a woman living in sin. Are not the practices of the false church, the burning of incense and worshipping of statues, rightly called spiritual fornication? Their buildings are full of these things and through these, and by means of different rites and rituals and practices, spiritual fornication is being committed by them every day. Such people cannot be called the chaste virgin of the Lord Jesus Christ.
MARCH 22
"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God" (Eph. 2:19).
The sixth appearance of the Lord Jesus after the resurrection was to five hundred brethern according to 1 Cor. 15:6. As the news of His resurrection spread, the believers began to gather from different places, where they had been hiding. The number reached above five hundred, Then the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to them who had gathered together in one place. By this appearance we see how we can experience His power of resurrection when we meet together as one family, overcoming all man-made differences. The Lord Jesus Christ prayed before He went to the garden of Gethsemane, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me" (John 17:21). In this chapter we have the record of the most inspiring prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ. He prays for four-fold oneness among us as believers, oneness in relationship; secondly oneness in love; thirdly oneness in perfection; fourthly, oneness in glory. The more we live together as one family, forgetting all national, communal and social differences, the more closely are we drawn to our Lord. At the same time our closeness to the Lord and to one another helps us to appropriate His power with strong faith. In these days we find believers being divided over trifles. This brings a great spiritual loss to many and they remain babes spiritually for a long time. Wherever believers gather as one family under the Headship of the Lord Jesus Christ with forbearance towards, and service to one another with true love, we find much spiritual growth, a deeper understanding of the Word of God and the ability to enjoy His abiding presence. We see from God's Word that wherever the early Christians came together as one family, the Lord worked deeply and freely. We have the privilege to welcome and serve all equally without any partiality.
MARCH 23
"The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him" (Psalm 25:14).
The joy of the Lord fills our hearts when we realize that we are going to be fully identified with Him as His bride. As the bride and the bridegroom share their thoughts and their possessions in perfect love, we also will share everything with the Lord when we are united with Him. We are chosen as His everlasting partners and companions. Those who do not have such a joy or hope have nothing they can really look forward to and they have nothing to share with others. Some husbands demand good food from their wives, and if they do not get it they become wild. This is all because they do not know what the joy of the Lord is and they are unable to share that joy with their wives. They only demand many things. So many husbands and wives do not have oneness. We can share this great Heavenly joy with others and as we do so, it increases.
As we go upon our knees and share all our thoughts and desires freely with Him, He will show us what He wants to teach us, what we can do to please Him and our joy will increase. The Lord shared His thoughts with Abraham as we read in Gen. 18:17, 18. "Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do: seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?" The Lord says that Abraham is His friend, and that He cannot hide anything from Him. The mighty and great God is saying this to Abraham, and also sharing His mind with him about destroying Sodom and Gomorrah because of the wickedness of the people. Our Lord must have shared His thoughts with Martha and Mary also in Bethany. Whenever He went from Jerusalem to their house, He must have shared with them how He went into the temple and found corruption all around. That is how we too must share our thoughts with the Lord. We are always asking for something when we pray, but we never wait in prayer to hear what our Lord wants to share with us. Many times in the early hours of the morning, I have felt the Lord calling me to share something with Him asking me to go somewhere. It is a great joy to know what our Lord wants to share with us. It is a greater joy to do what He wants us to do for Him.
MARCH 24
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts" (Col. 3:15).
It is only by inward peace we can be sure of God's perfect will, for without that peace you cannot find it (Heb. 13:20,21). When people do not know how to find God's will, they make many mistakes in their business, marriages and other plans in their lives, and they pay a heavy price in later years. See how necessary it is, therefore, to make sure that our peace is genuine and real, and not an imitation. It is the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself that He gives to us. "My peace I give unto you. My own peace". He Himself becomes our peace. He died and rose again, that we may die to our old nature. Then only can our Lord Himself come and live in us by the power of His resurrection. Unless you are indwelt by the Lord Jesus Himself, you will not find that peace, for that peace does not depend upon Bible knowledge, nor upon any human qualification. He cannot live in us unless we are inwardly purified, cleansed and washed. Nobody can purify himself, by his own efforts. The Lord Jesus Christ undertakes to cleanse us from every inward defilement by His own blood. Then He says, "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14:27). His true peace will deliver you from all your fears; fear of the past, fear of the future, fear of the enemy, fear of diseases; fear of death, fear of war and other calamities, fear of men and fear of loneliness. All these fears are driven away when the Lord Jesus Christ comes inside. No human activity can take away these fears. The Scripture says, "Fear is torment", and that fear will make you restless and take away your sleep and hunger. No man can take away that fear. But the Lord can. He says, "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
In Col. 3:15, we read: "let the peace of God rule in your hearts ...to the which also ye are called in one body". That peace will make you feel one with everybody else. No more Malayalis, no more Tamilians, no more Punjabis, no more rich, no more poor, no more white, no more black, no more Telugu, no more Komti,... or whatever it may be; all divisions go away. No man can do this. But in the Lord Jesus Christ, we can be perfectly one with everybody anywhere, everywhere. I have had the privilege to visit many countries. I have never felt a stranger in any country. I did not know the language, but I could feel one with those who love Christ. There was no question of difference among us. Only the Lord Jesus Christ can make us one like this. Further in the same verse Paul says, "Be ye thankful". Real peace will make you thankful. There will be a note of praise and thanksgiving all the time. Otherwise you are never satisfied. You begin the day murmuring and you end the day murmuring. Always something is wrong somewhere, either in the coffee, rice, rasam or food, or someone speaking about your head, nose, etc! The Lord can teach you to be thankful in everything, in all situations, circumstances and conditions, in life. We can thank God for His love, grace and mercy, for everything turns out for our good eventually.
MARCH 25
"...by the grace of God I am what I am" (1 Cor. 15:10).
God has a great and high purpose in saving us, that is to make us princes and kings in the coming New Creation. All those who are redeemed by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus have that privilege (Rev. 5:9,10). For that purpose, the Lord has made His grace available for all our needs, shortcomings and weaknesses. By coming before His throne of grace we can receive His grace. Whatever may be our trial, temptation, affliction or hardship, His grace is sufficient for us. Our need may be like a great mountain and yet the Lord Jesus Christ Himself invites us to come boldly before His throne of grace with faith (Heb. 4:16). That is why we have to learn more and more about God's grace and how to obtain and enjoy it.
We begin our Christian life only by His grace, and not by any human qualification. God demands everlasting righteousness. There is no comparison between God's righteousness and our righteousness. None of us has the least qualification to receive this great salvation. It is only by God's grace and our faith in the efficacy of the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, that we can obtain this salvation (Eph. 2:5,8) and show forth God's glory and grace. The apostle Paul testifies in 1 Cor. 15:10, "But by the grace of God I am what I am." That means, whatever he did or suffered for the Lord was only by God's grace. As a God's servant Paul went through many afflictions. Then he testified later on, "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." Thus we find that all our afflictions are allowed by God to teach us the meaning of His grace and enable us to enjoy it.
Even the weakest believer in the whole world can become strong by claiming His grace. We need not feel sad or downcast for our weaknesses or shortcomings, because we have bold access to the throne of grace. For our sake the Lord went through every possible temptation and yet was without sin. That is why He is now interceding for us for all our human weaknesses. When I find my strength failing, and my temptation too much for me, and my faith becoming weaker and weaker, and doubts fill my heart, I say "Lord Jesus Christ, Thou art my High Priest, kindly intercede on my behalf and lift me up. Now grant me Thy abundant grace". He gives me boldness, faith and strength.
Please realise your heavenly calling. However weak you may be, the Lord has made every provision to bring you to His throne. If you have any doubt, claim the intercessory ministry of the High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe that He faced the same temptations which you are facing. He knows exactly what you are going through and His grace is fully sufficient. May the Lord teach us to claim that grace for our heavenly calling.
MARCH 26
"O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him" (Psalm 34:8).
The first lesson the Lord taught me during the early years of my Christian life was that I should not tell anyone about my needs either by words or by hints but only the Lord. There was a time when I had no food for many days, and to add to my difficulty, I had to walk long distances. One day I was very hungry, and then I thought within myself, "I am very hungry. I cannot beg or ask anyone for food. If I go to my friend's house at food time, he is sure to ask me to have food with him. Then I will say, 'No, thank you'. If he asks me once more I will once more say, 'No, thank you', but if he asks me for the third time I will then agree to have food with him." With such thoughts I went to his house and it happened exactly as I had thought and I was able to have food in his house. After a few weeks I had the same temptation again. I was feeling very hungry and so I thought of going to my friend's house once again with the hope of repeating my last experience. As I was on my way at about 1.30 p.m. the Lord rebuked me saying, "Where is your faith?" I replied "Lord, I do not intend to ask or beg for the food. Only if he insists until I refuse him two times I will take it". To this the Lord questioned me saying, "What is your motive in going to your friend's house?" I was put to shame; I immediately asked the Lord to forgive me. I promised Him that I would not go to any person for any need of my own because He is my living sufficiency (Psalm 23:1). That is how the Lord gave me a strong faith.
There is another occasion when I had to go without food for a whole day. At midnight a man came and knocked at my door and woke me up. Then he said to me, "Brother! Please forgive me for coming to you at this late hour of the night. I was asleep and had a dream. In my dream I saw someone asking me to go and call you over for food. So I woke up, went to the kitchen and found that a plate of cooked rice as left over; please tell me did you have food today?" I could not reply him with a lie. So I told him that I had no food that day. He immediately took me to his house at that midnight hour and gave me food. These things do not happen by chance. Do not say "Your case is different". If we trust God fully we can prove His faithfulness.
On yet another occasion twenty-five of us went on a Gospel campaign. At that time we are doing our own cooking. When Sunday came those of us who were responsible for the cooking wanted to stay back and attend to the cooking for all us. I told them that the Lord wanted all of us to go for the worship service. They said, "What shall we do about our midday meals?" I told them that the Lord would provide. So we all went to the worship meeting. After the meeting we were all standing at the bus stop. I saw one man who was known to me coming towards us carrying a very big basket. I asked him what he was doing. He told me that he had been to a wedding feast where much food was left over. The host said that anybody could take away the leftover food. He thought since he had no family of himself, he could take the food for his neighbours and friends. But when he saw us, he felt that he should give it to us. So he left that basket full of food with us. There was food sufficient for all of us. So God will supply all our needs as long we do our part of trusting Him.
MARCH 27
"... So I prayed to the God of heaven" (Nehemiah 2:4).
Many people advertise their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ but when troubles come they begin to weep. They give hints about their financial need to other people in many subtle ways, sometimes even in their prayers they pray loudly. But in the case of Nehemiah we do not find anything of the sort. He did not make any request to the king even though he was the foremost among his servants, and had every opportunity for getting any of his petitions granted; instead, he first prayed to the God of heaven before he could express his request to this earthly king. He prayed that God would grant him wisdom to make his request in a proper way. Thus he depended upon God for each word that had to be spoken by him before the king. As a result of this when he made the request before the king, the king could see that he was a man of God and the words which he spoke were the words of God.
Nehemiah only requested the king for permission to leave, in exactly the same manner as government employees apply for leave when they need it (Neh. 2:5). At that time he was badly in need of a large amount of money for the work which was before him. He could have easily requested the king for financial help and the king too, being so great could have readily helped him. But Nehemiah did not want to depend upon the king's money for God's work. And we see that the king was not only pleased to grant him permission to go to Jerusalem (vs. 6), but he also sent with him captains of his army and bands of horsemen for his protection on the way (v. 9). Thus we see that when we go upon our knees with any burden, we not only have the privilege to be led and governed by Him, but also find every provision being made for our safety and success. So Nehemiah reached Jerusalem ready for the task before him.
MARCH 28
"Brethern, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness" (Gal. 6:1).
It is only when we realize God's goodness and grace in forgiving our backsliding that we can be of real help to those who are in the same condition. We can pray for them with tears of loving sympathy rather than condemning them harshly and hating them for spoiling their testimony. We learn how to go to them in love and humility, and see to bring them back to the Lord (Gal. 6:1-2). There is no doubt that in many subtle ways the devil tries to bring defeat into the lives of the believers. Many fall when they are strongly tempted. Then they are condemned and forsaken by other believers; some even hate them and they as well as unbelievers despise them. But if only we would remember how the Lord waited patiently for us to repent of our backslidings, how He met our need when we lost our first love, how wonderfully He helped us to return to Him and what a tender welcome He gave us, we cannot but try to help them. We would pray with tears for them and do everything we could to have them restored. Many times in our own experience, we have seen fallen ones coming back and being restored to their former position after we have prayed with tears for them and with them. On the other hand if we judge and condemn them, their hearts become harder and harder. Let us remember what a great responsibility we have towards our backslidden brothers and sisters. We have our Lord's example of how He dealt with His disciple Peter before and after his fall. The Lord Jesus knew how Peter would deny Him three times before the cock crew twice. Therefore He lovingly warned him saying "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethern" (Luke 22:31,32). Peter was restored because of the prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We further see how the Lord told Peter that inspite of his denial of Him, He would still trust him and expect him to pray for his weaker brethren who might also fall. The Lord repeated this again in His last message to Peter (John 21:15-17). He told him three times, "Feed my lamb," "Feed my sheep," and again, "Feed my sheep." Both those who are newly born again and are babes in Christ, and those who are weak in their faith and not growing spiritually are like lambs who need extra care, having to be carried and strengthened. The Lord has used different people to help us in our weakness that we might be spiritually restored. So if we find that our fellow-believers are weak and living defeated lives, we also must help to lift them up spiritually by our prayers, fellowship and shedding of tears. "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy."
MARCH 29
"... the tongue can no man tame" (James 3:8)
Psalm 120:3, "...what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?" We find ourselves helpless to overcome our own tongues. We get angry at the least provocation, and our tongues get out of control and no human power is able to control them. We say hurtful things. Sometimes we say them even to our loving friends. Then we not only lose our peace because of our words but cause much trouble to those around us as well. It is true that we do not want to say hurtful words but still we fail many times. Only the power of God can help us to control our tongues.
The helm of a ship is small in size in comparison with the rest of the ship. Yet the captain can direct and change the whole course of the ship by his control over the helm (James 3:4). We need to bring our own tongues under the control of the power of God and then we shall be able to bring comfort to the needy people. We shall be able to say in real humility that we are sorry when we have done wrong. But when we do not call upon God to control our tongues then lies and words of anger, jealousy, hatred and so on, rush out of our mouths and bring much loss and damage into many lives. After this it become very difficult to confess and to say we are sorry for what we have said. Often we have to spend much time to bring peace between two contending parties. Even after both are fully convinced that they were in the wrong, they will refuse to say they are sorry or to ask pardon of each other. They will readily admit their share in the misunderstanding but as for saying, "I am sorry," it seems an impossibility to them! That is why the Psalmist admits in Psalm 120:1 that he called upon God in his distress. He recalls how his own tongue and that of others had spoken words of pride, hatred and anger. He had tried to control the words but had failed. Then he called upon God. We have seen this experience repeated in our own wretched condition in this and in many other aspects of our lives and have cried unto Him and He delivered us.
MARCH 30
"... the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is" (1 Cor. 3:13).
Our work will be tested. We as God's servants must know how to labour in the Spirit. What we do in the flesh will be burnt up. What we do for our glory will be burnt up. Whatever we do which is not according to the Scriptures will also be burnt up. It is for this reason the apostle Paul says so emphatically in 1 Cor. 3:12,13; "...if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is". The same thought is brought out in Hebrews 12:27, 28. God says there is going to be a "removing" and a "shaking" as of a fruit tree. God will shake everything. Even the heavens and the stars will be removed. Why should he shake the heavens? It is in order to bring into existence His unshakeable, unchanging, everlasting Kingdom. There were many great kingdoms and many great kings in times gone by. But now they have all disappeared and gone. The Lord Jesus Christ will establish a kingdom which cannot be shaken. In the same way, the Lord is going to test our work. Whatever is not suitable for eternity will be rejected. Whatever is not a part of God's House will be shaken severely and removed.
The Government had spent crores of rupees in building a dam near the city of Pune. It was an earthen dam, and should have been allowed to stand and settle for at least six months before it was used. But because of the common opinion that it was good and strong they began to use it for water supply before the lapse of the period. This was the mistake of the engineers. When the rains started in 1962 they noticed a small breach on one side of the dam. It was not an ordinary breach; but foolishly they struggled all night with iron sheets and cement bags to stop it. Yet it became wider and wider. It was midday on July 12, and the workers had just gone out for a cup of tea, when the dam collapsed. Just imagine that huge wall of water about 30 feet high, moving at speed of 47 miles an hour! Huge stone boulders were carried away like straw. No one knows exactly how many lives were lost, carried away by the force of that mighty flood. It was because of the carelessness and negligence of a few engineers.
If God's servants fail, the result is very serious, because it brings loss to the work of God. That is why God warns us in His word, "Take heed how ye build thereupon". We cannot just go on preaching Gospel without taking any responsibility for the souls who are saved thereby. Most people will not understand the full meaning of this warning. But preachers and teachers of God's Word will understand and they should take heed. We should be prepared for everything. The Scriptures also give us warning in Rev. 12:12 "...the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time". How careful we should be to know God's plan for building His work.
MARCH 31
"... Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, ... with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" (1 Cor. 5:7,8).
In Lev. 23 we read about the seven feasts of Jehovah which were shadows of coming events. The first feast was the feast of the passover, signifying the death of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Passover Lamb. Secondly, the feast of unleavened bread, when for seven days the Jews had to eat unleavened bread. Leaven is a symbol of sin because a little leaven can leaven the whole lump. In the same way, one sinful thought can defile the whole body. The Lord wants us to become like unleavened bread and He desires to impart divine nature to us. Thirdly, the feast of the first fruits, which speaks of the power of resurrection. Just as one grain of seed when it dies brings forth many grains, the Lord's death has made many righteous. Fourthly, the feast of Pentecost, which signifies that men of all classes are equal. By the Holy Spirit we are baptized into one body. The fifth feast was the feast of blowing trumpets, when the people had to blow the trumpets for seven days. This speaks about the importance of the preaching of the Gospel in the whole world with great power. Sixthly, the day of atonement, showing how people of all classes can become righteous. Seventhly, the feast of the tabernacles, revealing to us the truth that the Lord wants us to reign with Him one day.
The Old Testament offerings could not make the children of Israel perfect by practices, customs and rituals. Only the holy sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross makes anyone holy. Another great blessing of His sacrifice is, boldness to enter into the most holy place because of the efficacy of His precious blood, "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the of house of God; Let us draw near..." (Heb. 10:19-22). By the power of His blood we can go into the holiest anytime, for any need. The more we appropriate His High Priestly ministry, the more we enjoy boldness in His presence (verse 21). By His sacrifice, He has broken the middle wall of partition. Whenever we fail to enjoy this boldness, we have to search our hearts, confess our failures and get ourselves cleansed in His precious blood. Then we enjoy great boldness in His presence again.