12我们都必须认真寻求作王胜过罪、死和撒但。然而,我们也许竭力要在生命中作王胜过这三个仇敌,但我们所经历的却是失败多于成功。不要失望。只要你爱主并寻求祂,祂甚至会使用你的失败,将祂自己更多作到你里面。……我们的失败逼我们到主面前,并且使我们迫切进入灵里。至终,借着这样迫切转向灵,我们就会完全被主浸透。没有罪恶、丑陋的肉体所给的帮助,我们就不会那么迫切要得着主,或让祂作到我们里面。
12We all must earnestly seek to reign over sin, death, and Satan. However, although we may try diligently to reign in life over these three enemies, we will experience more failure than success. Do not be disappointed. As long as you love the Lord and seek Him, He will use even your failures to work more of Himself into you…Our failures press us to the Lord and make us desperate to get into the spirit. Eventually, by turning to the spirit in such a desperate way, we will be fully saturated with the Lord. Without the help rendered by the sinful, ugly flesh, we would not be as desperate to gain the Lord or to have Him wrought into us.