We have seen that the significance of prayer is to inhale God, absorb God, and to contact God in our spirit. But what is the principle of prayer? Why do we need to pray? If God knows all things if He knows what we need and what He needs to do, why does He need […]
Being Produced as Overcomers, the Eternal Mount Zion as the New Jerusalem Today
January 11, 2013 by 4 Comments
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The New Jerusalem is not only the consummation of the city of God but also of the Mount Zion, the overcomers, who are the elevation and the beauty of God’s city. God’s pleasure, His desire, and His habitation is not only in Jerusalem but more specifically in Zion, the place of His habitation. Zion as […]
Our Unique Goal is to Live and Work out the New Jerusalem, the Goal of God’s Economy
January 7, 2013 by 4 Comments
What is the goal of your Christian life and work? What are you living for, and what is the ultimate goal of everything that you do? God’s unique goal in His divine economy is the New Jerusalem, and He does everything for the obtaining of this holy city. God desires to obtain a building which […]
The Iniquity of the Sanctuary – We Need to Take Heed to How we Build
December 10, 2012 by 5 Comments
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This week in our morning revival we come to a sobering word, something that we see in picture in Numbers 16-18 and then in teaching and practice in 2 Cor. 3. It is, The Iniquity of the Sanctuary, a particular sin committed by the ones serving God and working for God, something that is against […]
As Ambassadors of Christ We Desire to Be Well Pleasing to God by Living to Him
December 4, 2012 by 1 Comment
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In 2 Cor. 5:9 we see that Paul had an ambition, a strong determination, to gain the honor of being well-pleasing to God. As ambassadors of Christ, we need to seek to be well-pleasing to God by living to Him. On the one hand, we shouldn’t be ambitious persons, especially ambitious for position or glory. […]
Being in the Divine Stream of Fellowship and Praying for the Ultimate Revival
December 1, 2012 by 4 Comments
Our work for the Lord needs to be in ascension, by the Spirit, and in the divine stream. This divine stream is the one flow of the Triune God from eternity into time and into eternity – and He flowed Himself into us! In this divine stream, we need to have fellowship – the stream […]
In His Human Living Christ Did the Work of Declaring God and Expressing Him
November 20, 2012 by 4 Comments
When He was on the earth, the Lord Jesus declared God in His human living. His work was to declare God, express God, and explain God to man. No one has ever seen God except the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father – and He has declared the Father to […]
