The Holy Spirit Applying the Scriptures to our Souls

 The following is from Jessie Penn-Lewis' book Face to Face:

"The 'faith' that can act as Moses did must have the word of the Living  God as its basis--the  declaration  of  the Living God given in His written Word, but by the Holy Spirit applied as His direct word to the soul.

"When God speaks, His commands are His enablings [emphasis added]. By the faith wrought in us by God, and the assurance of the reward of knowing Him 'face to face,' we  too  can  refuse  to  be  of  the  world  and  declare  plainly  that  we seek a better country, that  is, a heavenly; we too can refuse the pleasures of sin and self-pleasing, and choose the way of the cross; we too can hold lightly the 'treasures' that others clasp to their breasts, and account reproach with Christ as greater riches than them all.

"Faith accounting 'reproach' as 'riches' will give substance to the accounting, and we shall find that our light affliction, which is but for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory."