In Ezekiel 37 we see not only our condition when we’re fallen or backslidden (“dry bones”) but also God’s solution: prophesying, that is, the need to prophesy by speaking for the Lord so that the Spirit would come in and enliven us! On the one hand, the many dry, disjointed, very dry, separated bones in […]
Preparing and Practicing to Prophesy for the Building up of the Church
In Matthew 16:18 the Lord Jesus spoke the greatest prophecy in the Bible, I will build My church. In 1 Corinthians 14:4 the apostle Paul says something amazing, He who prophesies builds up the church. To prophesy is not merely foretelling the future, but mainly to speak for Christ, to speak forth Christ and to […]
God’s Word causes Dry Bones to become Living, for the Lord is the Savior of the Dead
In Ezekiel 37 God gave the prophet a vision of a valley full of dry bones, which represented the house of Israel, and He told him to prophesy over them; the result was that the Spirit came in, breathed on them, enlivened them, and produced a great army. We may think that these dead, dry […]
God is Inwardly and Outwardly Recovering us to give us His Spirit and Renew us
Praise the Lord – our God is recovering us both inwardly and outwardly, so that He may give us His Spirit, breathe Himself into us, enliven us, and make us His corporate expression! Amen! This week in our morning revival we continue our Crystallization-Study of Ezekiel with an in-depth study of Ezekiel 37; the title […]
The Increase of Christ in us is for the Building up of the Body of Christ in Love
What the Lord is after today is not individual Christians who are spiritual and can express God – He desires to gain the Body of Christ, and the unique work Christ is doing is the building up of the Body for God to have a corporate expression in man. Christ Himself is the unique Head […]
Being those who Live in the Reality of the Body of Christ in the Church Life today
God today is doing one thing: He’s building up the church as the Body of Christ so that the bride of Christ may be prepared for Christ to return and end this age; if we see this, we will be those who strive to live in the reality of the Body of Christ today. It […]
Christ is the Unique Head of the Body, the Church, and of every Believer Individually
We as believers in Christ are the members of the Body of Christ, and Christ is the unique Head of the Body, the church; He is the Head of the church and the Head of each individual believers, directing every one of us. Therefore, we as believers in Christ need to take Christ as our […]