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  (AUDIO BOOK) BE STILL AND BE FILLED
  by E. Stanley Jones
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the concept of being chosen by God to
bear fruit and the importance of remaining connected to Him through
prayer. It highlights the power of receptivity and stilling the mind to
allow God's unlimited resources to flow through us. By surrendering to
God and allowing His grace to fill us, we can experience His abundant
life and be full.

Topics: "Being Chosen by God", "The Power of Prayer and Surrender"
Scripture References: John 15:16, John 14:13, Psalm 46:10, John 10:10, 2 Corinthians 9:8

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This sermon emphasizes the concept of being chosen by God to bear fruit
and the importance of remaining connected to Him through prayer. It
highlights the power of receptivity and stilling the mind to allow God's
unlimited resources to flow through us. By surrendering to God and
allowing His grace to fill us, we can experience His abundant life and
be full.

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CONTENT
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Whenever I am about to speak, I ask the audience to bow their heads in
silent prayer. In that silence, I always repeat my verse. Ye have not
chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and
bear fruit and that your fruit should remain.

That whatsoever ye ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. The
stilling of the mind by the repetition of that verse makes it receptive.
I am living in the passive voice.

Preaching, then, is not eager straining. It is receptivity ending in
release. The speaker is no longer a reservoir with just so much to give.

He is a channel attached to unlimited resources. The stilling of the
mind reminds you not of your pitiful little store, but of the fact that
you are now harnessing yourself to God's illimitable fullness. Prayer is
like the fastening of the cup to the wounded side of a pine tree to
allow the resin to pour into it.

You are now nestling up into the side of God, the wounded side. If you
will and you allow his grace to fill your cup, you are taking in the
very life of God. Be still and know, and you will be full.

Be unstill and you will not know. You will remain empty.

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