In His sovereignty, God the Father has had mercy on us and made us vessels of mercy unto honor and glory; we must praise and worship God for His sovereign mercy and trust not in ourselves but in His mercy. According to Gen. 1:26, God created us in His image and according to His likeness […]
Seeing that Everything Depends on God’s Mercy and being the Open Vessels of Mercy
Everything depends on God’s mercy; it’s all because of His mercy, not because of our seeking, pursuit, or intelligence, but because of His great mercy toward us. God has sovereignly created us in His image and according to His likeness for us to be His vessels, His containers, so that we may contain Him according […]
God’s Mercy Reached us and made us Vessels of Mercy: Everything Depends on His Mercy
It is all because of His mercy; in His sovereignty, God as our Potter has the authority to make the ones whom He has selected and called to be vessels of mercy unto honor and glory. It is not because of our seeking, our zeal, our being better than others, or our background or ability […]
As God-shaped Containers we’re Open Vessels Emptying ourselves to be Filled with God
The basic teaching of the whole Scripture is that God is the content and we are made as vessels, containers (even God-shaped containers!), to receive God, be filled with God, and be vessels unto honor; not being filled with God is vanity of vanities, making us a senseless contradiction. On one hand, we need to […]
Allowing the Word of Christ to Dwell in us and Mingling it with Prayer to Live Christ
We need to allow the word of Christ to dwell in us and mingle this word with our prayer so that we may live Christ. For us to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly means that we need to give the Word the first place in our being, allowing the Lord as […]
Let the Word of Christ dwell in us Richly for Christ as the Spirit to be our Life
Today God speaks in Christ, the Son of God, and Christ is embodied in His Word; we need to have the Lord’s speaking every day and let the word of Christ dwell in us richly, allowing Him to make His home and be rooted deeply in all the inward parts of our being. Amen! In […]
The Word of God we Eat becomes the Gladness and Joy of our Heart: God is our Joy!
When we eat, digest, assimilate and are constituted with the Lord’s words, is word becomes to us the gladness and joy of our heart, for the Lord’s joy becomes our joy, and we have joy in the Holy Spirit. It is very important for us as believers in Christ to read the Bible, and our […]