Take It Up a Notch! 1

Brokenness, humility, reliance and dependence upon the Spirit of God.  Follow the Lord Jesus Christ closely in your daily thoughts and behavior; copy His pattern of living; seek His incorruptible truthfulness, meekness and lowliness, utter selflessness, and entire consecration to the Father's will and business.  Inward personal piety and purity is vital, outward charity, godly sincerity, kindness and tenderheartedness is key.  Maintaining practical godliness, moral integrity, resisting temptation, denying self, treading the narrow way.  An undying love to the Lord Jesus Christ, a watchful avoidance of inward evil, and prayerfully seeking more of Christ's divine nature is the recipe for Joy.  Carefully walking in integrity, dwelling near to God, being conformed to Christ's image and character, growing in grace, hatred of the very appearance of evil, close fellowship with Christ, personal private holiness for Jesus' sake.  Real forgiveness demands real gratitude. Leave off loving your sins.  Glory only in the Cross!

Run to Jesus for mercy and safety, as a little child runs to its mother.  Resignation, repentance, submission, yielding, conformable, obedience, sanctification.  Real holiness, earnestness, gratitude, much self-denial, and Christlikeness.  Real faith, genuine repentance, humble gratitude, purity of life, chastity of love. Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.  Avoid sinful habits and worldly associations.  Love the Lord, help others.  Seek immortality, avoid immorality.  Ardent love to the Lamb of God.  Righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.  Forgive injury to yourself; love your enemies; overcome evil with good.  Holiness affects the heart, motive, nature, thoughts, words, actions.

Be ye reconciled to God through the person and blood of Jesus of Nazareth, God manifest in the flesh.  Look now to the Crucified Creator, and find the free forgiveness of sins with Him.  Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely. To believe means to trust, to trust Jesus' suffering and Blood Atonement, to rely upon His person alone for all your Salvation.  Faith in Jesus' Blood is vital to your soul's eternal destiny.

Practical obedience to the good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.  Practical surrender to the service of God.  Loving, kind, tender, affable, courteous, watchful, diligent, sincere, true, pure, honest, thankful, compassionate, gentle, and generous.  Lord Jesus, please help me with my inward conflict with temptation, lustful desires, unchaste leers, obdurate attitudes, impure thoughts, and selfish wanderings from You.  Flee youthful lusts as Joseph did.  Remember to give Jesus all the glory for any spiritual triumphs over self and sin.  Desire what God desires - Christ's glory and your neighbor's good. Dwell in God - think of God, be still with Him, live in Him, live with Him, talk to Him, listen to Him, yield to Him, befriend Him.  Thou God seest me.  God, rule my judgment, subdue my passions, keep down my baser impulses, crucify the old man.  Holy Spirit, be my Guide in my thoughts, speech, and actions.

Be resolute yet humble, leaning hard upon the merits of Christ, yet aiming for personal purity, morality, humility, and generosity for Jesus' sake. Be earnest in secret prayer, ask God for a pure heart that hates sin. Saturated with the Holy Spirit's influence and consecrated to the cause of Christ.  Love the Bible, fear God, commune with the Holy Spirit, truly adore Christ.  Be more in prayer, purity, and service.  Hearty, earnest, intense longings after Christ.  True faith in Jesus' Blood leads to an abhorrence of your sins.  Hunger and thirst after righteousness.  Avoid stinginess and covetousness.  Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.  Let Jesus be magnified in your life!

Remain loyal to the Lamb of God who bore your sins' pain and shame, seek to honor Him who took your place on Calvary's Cross, glorify the Savior with your life for He died to give you Eternal Life, renounce this world, cleave to the Cross, Worthy is the Lamb!