Everything depends on God’s mercy; it’s all because of His mercy, not because of our seeking, pursuit, or intelligence, but because of His great mercy toward us. God has sovereignly created us in His image and according to His likeness for us to be His vessels, His containers, so that we may contain Him according […]
As God-shaped Containers we’re Open Vessels Emptying ourselves to be Filled with God
The basic teaching of the whole Scripture is that God is the content and we are made as vessels, containers (even God-shaped containers!), to receive God, be filled with God, and be vessels unto honor; not being filled with God is vanity of vanities, making us a senseless contradiction. On one hand, we need to […]
Being Open Vessels to the Lord and Closing our Vessel toward Death and Defilement
Defilement is unavoidable, but we can learn to close our vessel toward death and defilement, and we can open our vessel toward the Lord! The redemption that Christ has accomplished on the cross is eternally effective and always available for us to apply; whenever we become unclean, we can contact the Lord by the exercise […]
Being Open Vessels for God to do Everything in us and Through us for the Body
In order for us to live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ, we need to be open vessels to the Lord; we need to open our entire being to the Lord absolutely so that the law of the Spirit of Life would operate in us and cause us to live God and […]
Living Christ for the Body by Letting Christ’s Word Dwell in us and being Open Vessels
We can live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ by being filled with the Spirit, by letting the word of Christ dwell in us richly, by praying unceasingly, and by being open vessels to the Lord. May we really be open vessels to the Lord, those who are not filled with their […]
Seeing the Kingdom of God with its Entrance, Development and Reality in the Church
The kingdom of God in the aspect of life is Christ as the seed of life sown into us, His believers, and developing into a realm over which God can rule as His kingdom in His divine life. In the Gospels the Lord Jesus Himself had announced the gospel of the kingdom, and in the […]
Open Vessels Cooperate with God who is Always Advancing in the Continuation of Acts
Today we are living in the continuation of the book of Acts, for our God is moving, our God is always advancing, and His work goes on throughout generations until today. As believers in Christ, we have been not only born of our human parents to live in the human history outwardly, but we have […]