The Overcomer and Conqueror

  J. Rufus Moseley was a scholar and university professor who left the accolades of academia and ministered to the down-and-outs of society while living a life in the Holy Spirit which he described as "Life as Love," a simple life of joy that one rarely encounters.  His life consisted of gratitude, of "littleness," and above all, love.

The following is from J. Rufus Moseley as recorded in the book Ineffable Union With Christ:  Living in the Kingdom (Selected Writings of J. Rufus Moseley, 1927-1937) compiled and edited by Gregory S. Camp: 

"The marvel of God's goodness is that as we become overcomers and conquerors, we actually get in real experience, or inherit, all things.  All enemies are put under our feet and what we call matter is to become as plastic to us as it was to Him. and best of all, we are to have His perfect everything with power to impart to others. 

"We also become co-workers with Him in the task of time and eternity.   As our inheritance in Him, as we see Him aright through the revelation of the Holy Ghost, we also see ourselves as we are to be.  And  beholding His Glory as in a mirror, the mirror being the Holy Ghost, we are changed from glory to glory until we arrive at the actual realization of our inheritance in and with Him.

"It is easy to those willing to practice it, to see that the secret of overcoming evil is never to meet it with evil, but always to meet it with good.  The secret of entering into His marvelous love in the Holy Ghost (which is the Kingdom of God to come universally) is to humble ourselves as little children and to enter into Him and abide in Him and open our whole being for Him to enter into, abide, and reign with us. 

"As to the mastery of nature and power over disease, limitation, devils, and death, Jesus taught that faith--faith in God and faith in Him, faith in His word, and faith in His faith--and a life lived in union with Him outflowing in joyful obedience and abundant fruit-bearing was the condition and the secret.  By His life, example, teachings, and works by His death and resurrection, by His ascension, by His gift of the Holy Ghost, He has opened the way for all of the works He did while on earth and even greater works to be done again and again until He and these works fill the earth.

"He longs for the same perfect love that the Father has for Him to be in us and for He Himself to be as fully in us and to reign as perfectly in us as the Father did in Him."