Comments on: He Must Increase

By: BettyLou

BettyLou — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 04:27:58 +0000

Yes ! So well said Chip – Christ rules in us when we don’t rule anymore – nevertheless not our will.
Adam and Eve exercised their free will in the garden to go their own way and then Christ in the garden of Gethsemane gave up His will – God’s will be done. Amen!! By ourselves decreasing we actually gain our life (who we were created to be) on that wonderful narrow path of God’s Kingdom living.
Thank you for this teaching and explaining it so simply !

By: John.

John. — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:14:00 +0000

Thank you, Chip. It is right where I am.

By: Don Rogers

Don Rogers — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:37:20 +0000

Thank you, Chip, for articulating what we have experienced and continue to experience. Writings such as this one give us inner peace and confirm that all is well. Our life experiences of being decreased provide opportunities for Him to be increased in us. Praise His name! We are continually reminded of God’s sovereignty and that His plan for man will prevail.

By: Donna Abrams

Donna Abrams — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:33:09 +0000

Greetings Chip and Family,
A friend sent me a link to you. When you quoted Arthur Katz, I knew I was in a good place. I still recall some of his teachings I was pleased to hear many years ago in Georgia. This teaching reminds me of the principle of the corn of wheat that falls into the ground and dies. If it does not do this it still abides but…alone…fruitless. This fruitfulness is what I am seeing as the big issue. The husbandman must first be partaker of the fruit….the production of Life issuing out of our connection with the Vine. What a great realization to know that our union with Christ in some unspeakable measure gives enjoyment to Him and the Father even now. What a great salvation! As dear Arthur Burt said, I haven’t arrived but I have left. Amen!

By: Linda Bray

Linda Bray — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:57:07 +0000

I come to your site almost every day to learn what I can about Jesus. This teaching has given me a lot to meditate on. The increase/decrease principal is exactly what I’ve been struggling with. I see my attitude of impatience and frustration as red flags, alerting me to my lack of Him in me. I really do want to be filled with his spirit, but I get caught off guard and find myself once again in a “poopy” mood over some little thing. It’s at those moments of carnality that I need to stop everything and confess the flesh and be filled once again with the Spirit. My problem is my life and the world are SO distracting, and I cannot just take a break to be with Him alone. He knows all this….about all of us, and He is greater than all of that.
May God bless you for this deep work you are doing for us, and may God bless those who come here to drink it in.

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:54:44 +0000

In reply to guy giunta.

Dear Guy,
Sometimes we do not have to add potatoes and carrots to the meat given. No disrespect intended, with my answer, however He is faith and when faith increases, then we definitely decrease in our ways and thoughts to make us acceptable to Him. We are dead, yet we live an abundant life in Him. Even the disciples said to Him, Lord increase our faith. The actual living unto Him causes death unto the way that they were living. Personally, I have quite enjoyed the messages Chip has brought forth, and every time I read them I could supply more comments, and in the places that I have done this, I seen my own spiritual growth, like one does when they measure their child’s height upon a door jam or wall. I truly hope that as you read you can grow too as you ask Fathers revelation on that which is being written.
peace and love to you

By: Chip Brogden

Chip Brogden — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:02:18 +0000

In reply to Robin. Thank you Robin, I'm glad it helps!

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:15:23 +0000

Man Chip I love the stuff you write it seems to bring me face to face with Christ.It has put into words much that I had discerned but been unable to fully realize.It has brought much clarity to many questions that had caused me much uncomfort.Thank you!!

By: molly

molly — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:49:58 +0000

Thanks Chip. i learn to die to self every day but often fails and falls . pray HE makes me strong day by day

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:43:11 +0000

This is a very beautiful message indeed. The very act of God in causing spiritual growth in the children in the very act of decreasing their thoughts and ways and increasing His is nothing more than a glorious and miraculous act. He is unlimited but it is we who limit Him with our ways and thinking. We say how can I love my enemies, or how can I bless those who curse me? The conversion of the natural mind and way of thinking to the spiritual mind and way is the a process of elimination. It is all contained in who God is, and God is love and good, and love NEVER fails. Its depth and width and height and breadth is explored.
Who is this Spirit that waits for us daily to ask Him to kill our enemies of doubt, unbelief, fear and pride(our gods? He is none other than Yeshua/Jesus who came to show us the express image of the Father who changes not. He is the consuming fire God that will take these godlike qualities that we use to save and protect our selves and burn them that we offer them up as a burnt sacrifice, and calls them a sweet smelling odor. The end of self and the fullness of Christ, full of the Fathers love and glory. Not a fantasy love, but one that suffers long and is kind, not envious or puffed up and boastful, or seeking its own or behaving unseemly and it does not think evil, it rejoices not in iniquity but rejoices in the truth, it bears all things, hopes all things, believes all things and endures all things and it NEVER fails. This is the character and mindset of our Savior which is slowly being formed in us as we grow and our eyes are opened and our ears hear, and our lameness cured and we are resurrected from the dead thoughts of the carnal mind, thereby making us free. Free from the dictates of mans thinking and tapped into the Living water of Gods way of thinking. But will that carnal mind repent which is the opened door of Christ, so that it may be transformed as we follow Him daily. Herein lies the battle of Armageddon, the battlefield of the mind where great tribulation happens. Where is placed the great white throne and the council of man and God is reasoned. If God continues on His throne therein all vain imaginations can be cast down and burnt and His council can be exalted, which humbles man. His grace is sufficient,and His love never fails, but we must come to Him.
On 19 Apr.2010, the Lord said to me, you made it through your great tribulation, I said what?, He said you made it through your tribulation of circumstances– I melted. Then I heard the words crown of life– I really melted, and had to excuse myself from my husband and go be alone with the Lord to just bask in His goodness, glory, love and life, weeping yet filled with joy.
The hardest thing in my trial was not forgiving my enemies whom caused me to err, but was forgiving myself for the stupid err I made–how could God forgive me when I walked with Him many years ( my thought and really plain out pride when my eyes were opened to it as I exalted my thought of what God would think above what His thought was for me, if I would but repent from the carnal thinking. I now understand that perfect love cast out all fears and really fear can cast out perfect love.
Praise God for His ways and thoughts that are higher than ours and may we all submit to His council that we all be perfected in His love, by growing spiritually and abounding in grace.