Streams in the Desert December 17 Daily Devotional

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it (I Thess. 5:23,24).
Many years since I saw that "without holiness no man shall see M the Lord." I began by following after it and inciting all with whom
I had intercourse to do the same. Ten years after, God gave me a clearer view than I ever had before of the way to obtain it;
namely, by faith in the Son of God. And immediately I declared to
all, "We are saved from sin, we are made holy by faith." This I
testified in private, in public and in print, and God confirmed it
by a thousand witnesses. I have continued to declare this for above thirty years, and God has continued to confirm my work. --John
Wesley in 1771.
"I knew Jesus, and He was very precious to my soul; but I found
something in me that would not keep sweet and patient and kind. I

did what I could to keep it down, but it was there. I besought
Jesus to do something for me, and, when I gave Him my will, He came
to my heart, and took out all that would not be sweet, all that
would not be kind, all that would not be patient and then HE shut the door." --George Fox
My whole heart has not one single grain, this moment of thirst
after approbation. I feel alone with God; He fills the void; I have
not one wish, one will, one desire, but in Him; He hath set my feet
in a large room. I have wondered and stood amazed that God should make a conquest of all within me by love. --Lady Huntington.
"All at once I felt as though a hand-not feeble, but omnipotent; not of wrath, but of love-was laid on my brow. I felt It not
outwardly but inwardly. It seemed to press upon my whole being, and to diffuse all through me a holy, sin-consuming energy. As it
passed downward, my heart as well as my head was conscious of the presence of this soul-cleansing energy, under the influence of
which I fell to the floor, and in the joyful surprise of the
moment, cried out in a loud voice. Still the hand of power wrought without and within; and wherever it moved, it seemed to leave the glorious influence of the Saviour's image. For a few minutes the
deep ocean of God's love swallowed me up; all its waves and billows rolled over me." --Bishop Hamline.
Holiness-as I then wrote down some of my contemplations on
ft-appeared to me to be of a sweet, calm, pleasant, charming,
serene nature, which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness, ravishment to the soul; in other words, that it made the soul like a field or garden of God, with all manner of pleasant fruits and flowers, all delightful and undisturbed, enjoying a
sweet calm and the gentle vivifying beams of the sun. --Johnathan Edwards.
Love's resistless current sweeping All the regions deep within;
Thought and wish and senses keeping Now, and every instant clean:
Full salvation! Full salvation!
From the guilt and power of sin.