Spiritual Progress Depends on our Hunger: Continually Emptied out to be Filled Up

All spiritual progress depends on our hunger, and unless we are freshly emptied in spirit to be filled with the Lord, we are indifferent to our own spiritual life and are in spiritual stagnation; God is helping us to progress with the Lord by giving us difficulties for us to open more deeply. Oh Lord […]

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit: those Emptied and Unloaded to Receive from the Lord

We need to be poor in spirit, emptied and unloaded in our human spirit, so that we may realise and possess the kingdom of the heavens; this means we need to be humble, acknowledging that we have nothing, know nothing, can do nothing, and are nothing, so we need the Lord’s filling desperately. Amen, Lord, […]

Being Filled Continuously with the Spirit for the Noble Work of Building up the Church

We need to be filled continuously with the Spirit for the noble work of building up of the church as the Body of Christ. If we want to walk in the all-inclusive Christ as the reality of the good land, we need to have much and thorough prayer in our life and service, praying at […]

In God’s Economy with His Dispensing we’re being Emptied to Receive only God as our Gain

The Bible speaks of only one thing: God’s eternal economy for the divine dispensing; yes, the Bible speaks about Christ and is focused on Christ, but in particular, the Bible speaks of Christ in God’s economy. When we come to the book of Job it is quite easy to focus on the sufferings he went […]

Maturity is Being Emptied to have an Increased Capacity to be Filled with God

God’s purpose can be fulfilled only through a transformed and mature corporate man, and we as believers in Christ today are in the process not only of transformation but also of maturity. In the process of transformation we have God’s divine life transforming and inwardly replacing our natural life, and in the process of maturity […]

Being Poor in Spirit and Pure in Heart to be Useful in Building up the Body

In order for us as Christians to be useful to the Lord for the building up of the church, the Body of Christ, we need to have a proper spirit. This means that our spirit needs to be right and proper; not only the things we do and the way we do things must be […]

Our Christian life is a life of being continually emptied and continually filled with the Spirit

I was so encouraged and also exposed by the Emanna for yesterday – the emanna is a free Christian service that you can subscribe to, and you receive daily a portion of spiritual nourishment from the Word and the “Words of the Ministry”. Yesterday it was about “Filling Empty Vessels”, and it was based on […]