As those who have been regenerated by the Lord in our spirit and who have a heart to serve the Lord in the church, we need to have a loving heart and a powerful spirit, a strong spirit, an exercised spirit. The heart and the spirit of a serving one is more important to the […]
We need to Cooperate with the Lord to Enlarge our Heart and be Delivered from Pride
Many difficulties arise in the church today because we do not have an enlarged heart; pride comes from a narrow heart, and we all need to ask the Lord to enlarge our heart day by day that we may be delivered from pride. When Solomon was about to be king, he prayed for wisdom to […]
Having an Enlarged Heart to Embrace, Care for, and Minister Life to all the Saints
The first thing we should consider when we look at the person and heart of a leading one or a serving one in the church life is the matter of having an enlarged heart. We may be lacking in this or that, but in caring for the saints we need to pray to the Lord […]
We Maintain the Newness of our Heart and Spirit by having a Repentant and Soft Heart
In considering what should our heart and spirit be in serving the Lord, we all need to have a new start to maintain the newness of our heart and our spirit, and we can do this by having a continual repentance in our fellowship with the Lord daily. In serving the Lord and particularly in […]
Confessing our Sins in the Divine Light to Drink Christ as the Living Water today
When we take Christ as our trespass offering by confessing our sins in the divine light, we drink Christ as the living water for us to become the New Jerusalem. What is the trespass offering? It is an offering ordained by God for His people to bring when they sinned, when a sin was manifested […]
Living an Overcoming Life and Redeeming the Time to Contact People for Shepherding Them
![We must recover this matter [of contacting and shepherding people]. Only by this will the organic building up of the Body of Christ in Ephesians 4:12-16 and the meetings of mutuality in 1 Corinthians 14:26 be realized and practiced among us. For this we need a daily revival and a daily overcoming as the base. We also need a life and work that flows out from the love of the Lord in order to maintain our victory....What maintains us in the victory is a life and work of love toward the Lord. Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1988, vol. 4, pp. 43-46](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/We-must-recover-this-matter-of-contacting-and-shepherding-people2.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
As believers in Christ who have seen something of the scriptural way to meet and serve, we need to live an overcoming life and redeem the time to contact people for shepherding and perfecting them. The Lord is clear in His word concerning the God-ordained way to meet and serve – first we need to […]
Cooperating with the Lord to Recover the New Testament Priesthood of the Gospel
We need to be one with the Lord and cooperate with Him to recover the New Testament priesthood of the gospel, bringing every member of the Body into function in his measure in the Body of Christ. The revelation in the Bible concerning us as believers and members of the Body of Christ has been […]