We do not question it, our hearts devoutly believe the fact; but Lord, we want by your Holy Spirit to know the facts in their living power. We wish that we might have fellowship with our Lord, who is our Head, in all this. Oh, that we might know how to die with him, and to live with him in newness of life. O God, we do rejoice that the old man was crucified with him.
We would daily mortify the flesh with its affections and lusts. We wish to be to the world, to sin, to selfishness as dead and buried men; as dead men, out of mind, so would we be. Oh, that no faculty might hear the voice of the charmer when it charms us towards sin! May we be delivered from the mere power to obey the lusts of the flesh and the temptations of the devil.
Amen I pray Lord