How blessed we are to be under the Lord’s shepherding for the recovery of the church life, as seen in Ezekiel 34! The Lord is indeed our good Shepherd, and He Himself comes to search for us, His sheep, to seek us out; He brings us from among the unbelievers to Himself so that we […]
The Lord comes as the Shepherd to Search for His Sheep and Bring them to Himself
In Ezekiel 34 the Lord Himself comes as the Shepherd to search for His sheep and seek them out, bringing them back to Himself as the pasture, restoring them, recovering them, and healing them; to shepherd is to take all-inclusive tender care of the flock. This week in our Crystallization-study of the book of Ezekiel […]
God becomes our Life by Entering into us Organically to be Assimilated into our Being
In His economy God desires to dispense Himself into our being so that He would become the very fiber and cell of our inner being; for this to happen, we need to eat, digest, and assimilate Christ to be constituted with Him in order to express Him and represent Him. Eating is a very important […]
Advancing from the Milk of the Word to the Word of Righteousness as the Solid Food
As those who realize that God’s word is our food, we need to advance from the milk of the word (in 1 Pet. 2:2) to the word of righteousness as solid food (in Heb. 5:13-14) so that we may grow in life. As believers in Christ, we have the Spirit with our spirit, and Jesus […]
Receiving the Spirit and Life contained in God’s Word by Praying over God’s Word
Ezekiel was told by God to take and eat the scroll, and then to prophesy for God; as believers in Christ, we need to eat the words of the Bible, taking the word of God into us by means of all prayer, and receive the Spirit that is embodied in the word of God. Jeremiah […]
God’s Words are Good for us to Eat: we need to Eat the Word of God as our Food
Ezekiel was asked by God to take the scroll and eat it, then speak the word of God (Ezek. 2:8-3:4); as believers in Christ we need to eat the word of God, digest them, assimilate them into our being, and then speak the word of God. This week in our crystallization-study of Ezekiel we come […]
Having the Spiritual Reality of the Rainbow Manifested in the Church Life Today
This week we have been prayerfully considering the spiritual meaning and application of the rainbow around God’s throne, and our realization is that the spiritual reality of the rainbow needs to be wrought into us so that we will have the appearance of a rainbow, bearing God’s testimony. God’s testimony is multi-colored: His divine attributes […]