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 […]
Living and Walking Daily According to the Spirit and not According to the Flesh
We can be only in the spirit or in the flesh – there’s no neutral ground or a third location; when we are walking according to the spirit, we are in spirit, but when we don’t, we are in the flesh. May the Lord continue to have mercy on us that we may see our […]
Loving the Lord and Praying Unceasingly for us to Live Christ for the Church Life
As believers in Christ, we need live Christ for the church life; we need to not only know the truth or doctrine of living Christ, but have a daily experience of living Christ for the church life. For us to live Christ we need to practice walking according to the Spirit; living Christ is actually […]
Learning to Take Christ as our Person to Live Christ as the Proper Church Life today
If we as believers in Christ take Christ as our person and let Him live in us, we will live Christ as the proper church life. When we were regenerated, without us realising this, another person came into us – Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came into our spirit as the life-giving Spirit. […]
Allowing Christ to Build Himself into our being for the Building up of the Church
For God to fulfill His eternal economy He needs to build Himself into our being by working Himself in Christ into us to be our life, our nature, and our constitution for the church as the one new man. Christ said that He will build His church (Matt. 16:18), and He does this not mainly […]
God’s Central Work is to Work Himself into His People to be their inward Constituent
As believers in Christ, we need to be those experiencing God’s central work and taking Christ as our person in and for the church life. God’s unique work, His central work, is nothing else but to work Himself into us and become our very inward constitution so that we may live the church life, having […]