The table of the bread of the presence (also called the showbread table) in the Holy Place in the tabernacle is a very sweet and satisfying place to be, because there’s always food there – permanently! In this item of the furnishings of the tabernacle we see how God in Christ wants to be enjoyed […]
To Shepherd according to God is to Minister the Processed God Constituted into us
September 5, 2015 by 1 Comment
To shepherd according to God (1 Pet. 5:2) requires that we become one with God, we are constituted with God, we live God, we represent God, and we minister God. We can shepherd according to God only by becoming the same as He is in life, nature, expression, and function. First, we need to be […]
We Become God’s Expression by Eating, Digesting, and Assimilating God to Live God
September 3, 2015 by 1 Comment
The high peak of the divine revelation in the Bible is that God became man to make man God in life, nature, expression, and function, so that God would obtain a corporate expression in the universe in man. Through regeneration we receive the divine life with the divine nature, and daily we are growing in […]
Being Metabolically Constituted with God to Live God and Shepherd According to God
September 2, 2015 by 1 Comment
Shepherding according to God – as the Lord Jesus and Paul did in their living and ministry – is by first becoming one with God, being constituted with God, living God, expressing God, representing God, and ministering God so that we may be God in function in shepherding others. It is one thing to feel […]
The Need for a Thorough Recovery of the Priesthood for God’s Building through us
July 25, 2015 by 2 Comments
As believers in Christ we are members of the Body of Christ, and we have the privilege and responsibility to be one with Christ, the Head of the Body to build up the church as the Body of Christ. The Lord today is building up His church by building Himself into us, His believers, through […]
Having a Change of Diet to Eating Christ as the Real Manna in our Christian Life
March 25, 2015 by 2 Comments
The deep truth in Exodus 16 and in the whole book of Exodus is that God wanted to change the diet of His people from the Egyptian food to the heavenly food, the heavenly manna. Even though the people of Israel were positionally no longer in Egypt but in the wilderness, in their constitution they […]
Living Always in the Presence of the Lord and Having Christ Constituted into us
October 20, 2014 by 1 Comment
Our God is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the Triune God. But what about Joseph – where does he fit in this? If we have the glasses of God’s economy on while reading the last chapters of Genesis we will realize that Joseph and Jacob are a […]
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