If I say I am in Christ, I can say Christ is in me, and my business is to show out Christ, and nothing else.  It is having Christ, always before us, and really walking in the presence of God.

The great secret is to be more with God than anybody, and if not, we shall go astray.  The moment I get away from the conscious presence of God, self has a certain place; whereas if I am really in the presence of God, I am nothing.  I am more what I am before Him, than what I am in His power for others.  You are not competent to discern the will of God if you are not with Him ... .

If power rests upon me, that does not put me in the presence of God as to my conscience or heart.  It may be for others, but we have to be before God Himself, or else we shall never keep straight; and for that we must be in the path of God for Him to lead us.  I cannot realize God’s presence out of the path of His will.  The instant we lose the sense of dependence we are in danger.

Obedience and dependence are the two living principles of the new man.