In regards to practicing the morning revival, my wife and I do not have any forms – we are flexible in pray-reading. We can either pray first or read first and vice versa. That is no rigid way of having our revival. Feelings of satisfaction, joy and cleansing come in after each morning revival time. […]
The Church is the Mingling of God and Man, the Enlargement of Christ as the God-man
August 11, 2017 by 11 Comments
The church is the mingling of God and man; the church is nothing else but God mingled with man, and the nature of the church is the mingling of God with man. According to our natural and fallen concept, when we think of the church we merely consider that we are sinners saved by God, […]
We need to be Watchful and Faithful in Preserving the Nature of the Church
August 10, 2017 by 9 Comments
In the church life today we need to be watchful and faithful in preserving the nature of the church; according to the Lord Jesus, the church must be like a mustard seed, sojourning on earth and being for God’s satisfaction. The church as the Lord Jesus envisioned it is something quite different from what the […]
The Church is Heavenly: the Nature of the Church is to Submit to God’s Authority
August 9, 2017 by 14 Comments
The nature of the church is heavenly, and the main significance of this is that the church is under Christ’s authority, submitting to no other person but Christ and His authority alone. It is vitally necessary for us as believers in Christ to know the nature of the church. According to the New Testament, the […]
Take time to Behold the Lord in the Morning: Don’t Seek a Feeling but simply Touch Him!
August 8, 2017 by 5 Comments
We must cooperate with God’s desire by practicing to give Him a free way to spread Himself into every part of our being. (The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1963, Vol. 1) How wonderful it is to give our dear Lord the first place in all things! God desires to have the preeminence, but He […]
The Church is Christly (the Self is Denied) and Resurrectionly (we Overcome Death)
August 8, 2017 by 9 Comments
If we really see a vision of the nature of the church and realize that the church is divine, Christly, resurrectionly, and heavenly, then the natural, fleshly, and ambitious elements will be ruled out and terminated, and we will be empowered to face any kind of death. It is easy to look at the church […]
Being Revived and Mingling our Praying with our Reading to Receive Light!
August 7, 2017 by 3 Comments
The night before, I usually pray to the Lord to wake me up in the morning. I don’t usually wake up late, but I still want to ask the Lord to wake me up at specific times in the morning. This is how I started to have a personal time with Him in the morning, […]
