Praying for our Inner Experience of the Indwelling Christ for the Building of the Church

 Like Paul in Eph. 3:16-21, we need to pray for our inner experience of the indwelling Christ for the organic building up of the church as the Body of Christ; we need to cooperate with God in prayer so that the big “machine” of the Triune God would operate in us for Christ to […]

The Organic Building up of the Church is through the Process of Spiritual Metabolism

 It is amazing to realize that the organic building up of the Body of Christ is through the process of spiritual metabolism. In His economy, God works Himself into us so that we may experience a metabolic process of spiritual digestion and assimilation that produces transformation as a gradual and intrinsic metabolic change in […]

Christ needs the Human Nutrients in our spirit and Proper Soil in our Heart to Grow in us

 The Bible shows us that the Triune God is coming into us to do a building work in us with Himself as the element together with the human nutrients in our spirit and the human heart as the soil; as He grows in us, we are built up to be the church as the […]

We need God to Build Christ into our Intrinsic Constitution for the Building up of the Church

 As believers in Christ, we need God to build Christ into our intrinsic constitution so that our entire being will be reconstituted with Christ; only in this way can we build up the church and can we be built up as the church. This week in our morning revival on the crystallization study of […]

Faithfully Exercise our Spirit to Utterly Destroy the Flesh and Live in the Spirit

 When the flesh is utterly dealt with, the kingdom of God immediately comes in; may we be absolute in dealing with our flesh and faithfully exercise our spirit to follow the Lord as the life-giving Spirit in our spirit. Amen! The lesson in 1 Sam. 15 is a very important one for us as […]

Allowing God’s Light to Expose the Good Aspects of our Flesh and Not Rebelling against God

 We may agree with God to put to death the ugly and evil aspects of our flesh, but we may treasure the good aspects of our flesh and spare them, not wanting to destroy them, but God wants to utterly destroy the flesh; even our doing good according to our own will is an […]

Pray in Union with the Interceding Christ to Cooperate with the Fighting Spirit and Put the Flesh to death

 In order for us to deal with the flesh, we need to pray in union with the interceding Christ in order to cooperate with the fighting Spirit who indwells us; this is seen in type in Exo. 17, where Joshua, Moses, Hur, and Aaron were all involved in the defeat of the Amalekites. Amalek […]