For us to be renewed in the spirit of our mind is inward and intrinsic, for it revolutionizes the way we think and perceive things, causing us to have the mind of Christ. What is this “the spirit of our mind” spoken of in Eph. 4:23? At the time of our regeneration, Christ as the […]
Put on the New Man by Being Renewed in the Spirit of our Mind through Prayer and the Word
December 25, 2019 by 1 Comment
The key for us to put off the old man and put on the new man is being renewed in the spirit of our mind; our inner man needs to be strengthened to invade, subdue, and occupy every part of our soul, and we need to be in God’s word with much prayer to be […]
Being Renewed by the Addition of God’s Element as our Outer man is being Consumed
December 24, 2019 by Leave a Comment
We need to be renewed for the one new man; to be renewed is to have God’s element added into our being to replace and discharge our old element, and God arranges our environment so that our outer man is consumed and our inner man is renewed. We need to realise that, on the cross, […]
The Creation of the New Man was Completed, but the Renewal of the New Man is Going on
December 23, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The creation of the new man has been completed on the cross, but the renewal of the new man is still going on; the new man was created by Christ on the cross, but we believers need to partake of this creation. This week in our deeper study of the matter of the one new […]
Responding in Prayer to the Lord’s Interceding, Ministering, and Administrating
December 21, 2019 by Leave a Comment
For there to be the genuine reality of the new man among us, prayer is needed; this prayer is a particular kind of prayer, a prayer that is one with the Lord, responding in prayer to His heavenly ministry for Him to bring in the practicality of the new man. This week we saw something […]
We Set our Mind on the Things Above to Respond to Christ’s Heavenly Ministry in Prayer
December 20, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In His heavenly ministry today Christ is interceding, ministering, and executing God’s administration, and we need to be those who respond to Christ’s heavenly ministry by setting our mind on the things which are above and corresponding to Him in prayer. For the Lord to gain the reality of the one new man lived out […]
Ruled by the Peace of Christ, Inhabited by the Word of Christ, and Living in Union with God
December 19, 2019 by Leave a Comment
For us to persevere in prayer for the one new man we need to let the peace of Christ arbitrate in us, let the word of Christ dwell in us richly, and live in union with Christ (see Col. 3:15-17). This is the condition that we must find ourselves in so that we can persevere […]
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