Pay the Price to Learn the Truths and Experience Christ to Speak the Truth and Minister Life

But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ. Eph. 4:15

We need to pay the price to learn the truths and experience Christ so that He may become our reality; in this way, when we speak to people, we don't give them mere knowledge or doctrine but we minister Christ to them. May the Lord save us from not … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to learn, in worshipping the Father, to link the worship of the Father to the remembrance of the Lord

I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word…And I have made Your name known to them and will yet make it known, that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them. John 17:6, 26

Dear saints, let us pray that, in the Lord’s table meeting, the saints would learn to link the section on worshipping the Father to the section on the remembrance of the Lord and would follow the Spirit’s leading to call hymns and offer praises … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to learn to function in the Lord’s table meeting in a coordinated way

Be filled in spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord, giving thanks at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to our God and Father. Eph. 5:18b-20

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would learn to function in the Lord’s table meeting in a connected way, coordinating together like a team to pray, speak, and sing hymns and to praise and thank the Lord (Eph. 5:18b-20; Hymns, #867). Hymns, … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to learn to speak hymns to one another and to sing hymns in their daily life

Be filled in spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord. Eph. 5:18b-19

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would learn to speak Christ to one another with the hymns and to sing hymns and spiritual songs in their daily life in order to build up their spirit and their fine and tender feelings to equip themselves to … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to remember the Lord by selecting hymns and offering praises for the Lord’s person and work

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God a treasure to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of a cross. Therefore also God highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should openly confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phil. 2:5-11

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would remember the Lord by selecting hymns and offering praises for the Lord’s person, human living, suffering, death, exaltation, and glorification (Phil. 2:5-11; Hymns, #86). Hymns, #86, stanza 1 Though … [Continue reading]

We need to Come to the Full Knowledge of the Truth and have the Faith of the Truth

This is good and acceptable in the sight of our Savior God, Who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth. 1 Tim. 2:3-4

As those who are saved by believing into Christ, we need to have a full knowledge of the truth; we need to be saved and come to the full knowledge of the truth, having a full acknowledgement and appreciation of the reality of all the spiritual and … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to exercise their spirit to sense the atmosphere of the meeting and apply the hymns at the proper time

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve by testing the things which differ and are more excellent, that you may be pure and without offense unto the day of Christ. Phil. 1:9-10

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would learn to exercise their spirit to sense the atmosphere of the meeting, discern its focus, and apply the hymns at the proper time by following the sense in their spirit (S.S. 7:4 and note 41; Phil. … [Continue reading]