In our Christian life and experience with the Lord Jesus we go on with Him by dealing with the negative things which He exposes and shines on in our being. First of all we deal with our sins, our past, our conscience, etc, and then we go on to deal with our flesh, our self, […]
We Need to Deal with the Spirit by Dealing with the Passage of the Spirit
When God created man, He intended man to live, act, and have his being in and by his spirit, and the soul and the body would be under the rule of his spirit. Adam had fellowship with God in his spirit every day! But when man fell by over-exercising his soul and not exercising his […]
Seeing the Great Importance of Life and the Desperate Need to Grow in Life
We need to see the importance of life and of the growth in life in our Christian life and church life. We may know the truth, we may love the Lord and read His word, and we may love the church and serve the saints in the Lord, but how much did we gain the […]
Being Mysteriously Transferred into the Realm of Resurrection for God’s Building
We all know the Lord’s word in John 12:24 where He says that unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone – but if it dies, it bears much fruit. When the Lord Jesus came with the kingdom of God, He established a different principle of serving God and […]
Being Willing to Deal with our Natural Constitution for us to be Useful to God
As believers in Christ, we all love the Lord and we want to serve Him and please Him to the best of our ability. Yet somehow it looks like if “we do our best to do good and please God” and “we try our best to serve Him according to what He tells us” things […]
Realising the Impotence and Insufficiency of Our Natural Being in the Things of God
In order for us to grow in the divine life and to serve God according to His heart’s desire, we need to deal with our natural constitution. How much we grow in life and how much we can minister life to others depends on our dealing with our natural constitution. We need to ask the […]
The Divine Fellowship is Everything in Our Christian Life and Church Life
The divine fellowship is the flow of the divine life in us, the Triune God as the Spirit flowing in and out of us, and it also is the fellowship in spirit with our fellow believers. The divine life which we have received through regeneration is a fellowship, a flow, and this divine fellowship is […]