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

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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

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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

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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

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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]

Let us pray for the saints to diligently learn the hymns in order to select appropriate hymns in the meetings

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Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God. Col. 3:16

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would diligently learn the hymns according to their category, content, central thought, focus, sensation, taste, and tune so that they may select appropriate hymns in the meetings, especially in the Lord’s … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to learn to select hymns in the meetings according to the purpose of the hymns and the principle for selecting hymns

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And after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Matt. 26:30

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would learn to select hymns in the meetings, especially in the Lord’s table meeting, according to the purpose of the hymns and the principle for selecting hymns (Matt. 26:30; 1 Cor. 14:26; Hymns, #513, … [Continue reading]

We need to be Constituted with the Truth to have the Divine Reality Wrought into us

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...the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth. 2 Tim. 3:15

We need to be constituted with the truth - the truth has to become our very constitution, even to be constant and long-term nourishment, not merely an inspiration or temporary nourishment. Amen! This week in our morning revival we come to the topic … [Continue reading]