In the Mould of the Cross, Life and Ministry of Jesse Penn-Lewis by J C Metcalfe and published by Classics.
From the day of her conversion Mrs Jessie Penn-Lewis seems to have determined to possess in actual experience everything that Christ’s finished work purchased for her, and she was rewarded with an extraordinary fullness of God's Spirit in her life. She also triumphed over physical weakness and defied many predictions from her doctors of an early grave.
“All that I have, all that I am, all that I may be is Thine, wholly, absolutely, and unreservedly,” wrote Jessie Penn-Lewis on her twenty-third birthday, “and I do believe that Thou dost take me, and that Thou wilt work in me to will and to do Thy good pleasure. Day by day draw me nearer.” Some time later she received a tremendous baptism with the Holy Spirit and became mightily used of God in spreading the message of full deliverance from the self-life through the power of Christ's cross. “Calvary precedes Pentecost,” she wrote.
“Death with Christ precedes the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Power! Yes, God's children need power, but God does not give power to the old creation, or to the un-crucified soul.... Satan will give power to the ‘Old Adam’ but God will not.”
The purpose, then, of this book is to cater for a new generation of believers who know little or nothing about this lady who was used by the Lord to reach many people for Himself.
