Around the World in 88 Years -E Book - Arthur Burt

What then is the answer? The only way to deal with the flesh lifeis by a change of diet: “…man shall not live by bread alone; butman lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of theLORD.” (Deut 8:3) By refusing to eat from that deadly tree, andinstead, by living on the proceeding Word of God, man can walkwith God.He will not have to corset his fleshly pride but can truly reckon itdead. Not knowing, not judging, by what his eye sees or his earhears, but by the proceeding Word, he will have the blessed,sweet condition of walking in Truth that is acceptable to God.AnointingThe Spirit of God will always anoint the truth. And I believe thetruth isn’t an “it”. He’s a Person. And the Holy Spirit was not yetgiven because Jesus was not yet glorified. Those two “not yets”are linked. As you exalt Jesus, you can expect the anointing. Asyou exalt yourself, you can expect to lose it. The Holy Ghost willnever anoint pride, lies…. He will only exalt the Truth. So as weabide in the Truth, we can enjoy the anointing.“I’ll get a job.”When our seventh child, Rachel, was born, our income was rathersmall, and the midwife suggested, “You can get a family allowancefor maternity benefits.”“Oh no,” Marj told her, “Arthur can’t draw benefits because hedidn’t ever pay stamps.”“Whether he draws or not, he has an obligation to pay stamps,”she said.“Well, the Word of God says, ‘Render to Caesar what belongs toCaesar’,” I concluded, “So, okay, I will go and submit this debt tothem.”When I did go to the government office, they computed my pastobligations to them and drew me up an enormous bill amountingto hundreds of pounds. I told them, “I don’t even have thatin shillings. I don’t even know if I have that in pence.”“Why not?” they challenged.97