YIELDED

Yielding is a technical process where a pressure vessel is filled and pressured to an extent that the vessel reaches its original design capacity of volume and pressure. The vessel may undergo service up to its design capacity innumerable times. Once the vessel’s pressure and volume is released the vessel returns to its original state without any permanent deformation. If the vessel volume and pressure is exceeded beyond its design capacity, the vessel yields meaning a permanent deformation occurs and the vessel is never the same again.

Once the believer receives the Holy Spirit, their earthen vessel permanently deforms and they can never be the same again.  “Yielded and still”, this phrase has been constantly spoken in my spirit this afternoon. After reading the words to “Have Thine Own Way”, now I know that I am filled with thy spirit, “yielded and still.”

Have Thine Own Way, Lord

Adelaide A. Pollard, 1907

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will,
While I am waiting, yielded and still.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Search me and try me, Master, today!
Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now,
As in Thy presence humbly I bow.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Wounded and weary, help me, I pray!
Power, all power, surely is Thine!
Touch me and heal me, Savior divine.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Hold o’er my being absolute sway!
Fill with Thy Spirit till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me.

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