Our heart is the entrance and exit to our whole being; we need to deal with our heart and keep our heart with all vigilance, for from it are the issues of life (Prov 4:23). Especially as we grow up humanly and also spiritually, we need to learn the lesson of keeping our heart, maintaining […]
We Live a Life of Godliness by being Governed and Energized by the Heavenly Vision
April 15, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Prov. 29:18a says, Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; we need to see the heavenly vision and be governed by it, even be controlled and directed by it, so that our life may be full of meaning and purpose. This week in our Crystallization-study of Proverbs we come to the topic […]
Exercise our Spirit over God’s Word for the Written Word to become the Applied Word
April 14, 2021 by Leave a Comment
In our experience as believers in Christ, the written word of God needs to become the living word spoken by God to us which is applied to us by and in the Spirit to become our subjective faith; we need to turn the Bible into a book that is full of life, light, spirit, and […]
Receive the Living and Operative Word of God with a Praying Spirit to Divide soul from spirit
April 14, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The word of God is living and operative, sharper than any two-edged sword, able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit; we need to take the word of God in with a praying spirit so that we can build up our new man and […]
Pray-reading the Word of God to Inhale the Breathing out of God and Gain more of God
April 13, 2021 by Leave a Comment
We need to be those pray-reading the word of God to inhale the breathing out of God and gain more of God. As believers in Christ, we come to the Bible as the breath of God for us to breathe in that we may receive life supply from God; we read the verses in the […]
Learning to Exercise our Spirit to Contact the Lord in His Word to Receive Spirit and Life
April 13, 2021 by Leave a Comment
We need to exercise our spirit to contact the Lord and live by the new man, turning from our mind to our spirit as we come to the Word of God so that the Bible would become a book of life and we would receive spirit and life when we come to it. The book […]
Seeking God in Coming to His word to receive Wisdom from God through Contacting God
April 12, 2021 by Leave a Comment
The book of Proverbs is a collection of the words of the wise, stressing the wisdom that man receives of God through his contacting of God; the kind of book Proverbs is to us depends on the kind of person we are and in what way we take it. This week in our deeper study […]
