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Having no Distance between us and Christ to Eat and Digest Him as the Hidden Manna

October 20, 2017 by aGodMan 10 Comments

Heb. 9:3-4 And after the second veil, a tabernacle, which is called the Holy of Holies, having a golden altar and the Ark of the Covenant covered about everywhere with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna and Aaron’s rod that budded and the tablets of the covenant.

When we minister to the Lord, having no distance between us and Him, we enjoy Him as the hidden manna, and we let Him have the thoroughfare in our being so that He may be assimilated into us. What we have in the Holy of Holies is the ark of the … [Continue reading]

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The Work of the Holy Spirit can be Revealed at the Time of Ministering to the Lord

October 19, 2017 by aGodMan 9 Comments

To minister to the Lord is not to forsake all the work on the outside. To minister to the Lord is not to give up serving in the villages. What I say is that all the work on the outside should be based on our ministry to the Lord. We go forth, out from our ministry to the Lord, rather than out from our own desires, which have no basis in the ministry to the Lord. There is a vast difference between these two matters. Watchman Nee

The unique principle for the work in the New Testament is that the work of the Holy Spirit can be revealed only at the time of ministering to the Lord. We see this in Acts 13:1-2, where there were some brothers in the church in Antioch who were … [Continue reading]

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Ministering to the Lord not by Human Effort or Sweat but in God’s Rest and Blessing

October 18, 2017 by aGodMan 7 Comments

Linen garments signify a daily living and walk in the life-giving Spirit by the life of Christ; such a living and walk is pure, clean, and fine. Woolen garments would cause the priests to sweat (v. 18), a sign of fallen man laboring under God’s curse, without God’s blessing, by his own energy and strength (Gen. 3:19). The work that causes sweat is the work that comes out of human effort without the blessing from God the Father; everyone ministering to the Lord must do a work that causes no sweat, a work without human effort and fleshly strength - Isa. 30:15a. Crystallization-Study of Ezekiel (2), outline 9

According to Ezek. 44:17-18, those who minister to the Lord should not wear woolen but linen garments, so that they would not sweat; this means that as we serve the Lord we should do a work with no sweat, no human effort, a work under God's … [Continue reading]

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Ministering to the Lord by Drawing Near to Him and Spending Time with Him in Prayer

October 17, 2017 by aGodMan 7 Comments

Whatever we do in the Lord’s service should be for the Lord’s sake; it should be for His satisfaction, His heart’s desire, His happiness, His goal, His pleasure, and His glory.

The Lord desires us to minister to Him by drawing near to Him, spend time before the Lord and pray more, and wait for His will to be revealed to us and infused into us, so that we may minister not only to His house but to the Lord Himself. In Ezek. … [Continue reading]

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Ministering to the Lord by Giving Him the First Place and by Focusing only on Him

October 16, 2017 by aGodMan 10 Comments

Are we really ministering to the believers or to Him? Is the focus of our work really on the work or on the Lord? There is a great difference. Ministering to the house is extremely different from ministering to Jesus Christ. We can see many today ministering and serving, but they are only in the outer court. They have not come near to the table...The ministering that the Lord is after—the ministering that He is continually after—is to minister to Him. His desire is not for us to do His work. Laboring is certainly important, plowing the fields is important, and feeding the cattle is also important, but the Lord does not look at these things. Rather, He is after the ministering to God and the serving of God. He wants His slaves to minister to Him and to serve Him. Oh, how happy are those who are able to minister to Him. Watchman Nee, Ministering to the House or to God?

This week in our morning revival time with the Lord we come to the matters of Ministering to the Lord to enjoy Him as the hidden manna, the budding rod, and the law of life. We need to be those who minister not just to the house of God but minister … [Continue reading]

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We need to Live the Body Life and Keep every Principle of the Body in the Church Life

October 14, 2017 by aGodMan 10 Comments

Eph. 4:16 Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.

If we cannot pass the test of the Body life, our spirituality is not genuine, for the Body life is the greatest test of our spirituality, and we as members of the Body need to live in the Body and keep every principle of the Body. As those living … [Continue reading]

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Keeping the Law of the House of God and being Fashioned According to God’s House

October 13, 2017 by aGodMan 3 Comments

Most believers today feel that moral regulations and spiritual principles are sufficient as rules of behavior and conduct; few realize that our behavior and conduct should be examined not only according to moral regulations and spiritual principles but also according to the church, the house of God - 1 Cor. 14:4-5, 12, 26; Rom. 14:19; 15:2. The Lord cares for the church--the place of His throne, the place of the soles of His feet, and the place where He can dwell for rest and satisfaction - Ezek. 43:7. Because the Lord cares so much for the church, His house, we also should care for the church as His house and fashion ourselves according to it - Eph. 2:21-22. Crystallization-Study of Ezekiel (2), outline 8

Since today we are no longer in the age of the law but in the age of the church, we need to keep the law of the house of God, and we need to fashion ourselves according to the church. Our main concern should not be with behaving ourselves or with … [Continue reading]

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