If you read the story of Jacob in Genesis under the light of God’s clear shining and with the glasses of God’s economy on, you will be very much encouraged concerning your Christian life and church life. Jacob started by doing his best to supplant his brother even from their mother’s womb, and he succeeded […]
The Strongest Sign of Maturity in Life is Blessing Others with the Christ We Enjoyed
October 28, 2014 by 1 Comment
At the end of his life, when he was 130 years old, Jacob went to Egypt together with all his family to be with Joseph; by this time he was a mature person, and he simply blessed everyone. The strongest sign of Jacob’s maturity in life was his blessing of others. When he met Pharaoh […]
Blessing is the Overflow of the Divine Life that Inwardly Changes us and Fills us
October 27, 2014 by 2 Comments
The issue of Jacob’s transformation and maturity was blessing – he blessed everyone! At the end of his life, when he went to Egypt, all Jacob did was to bless: he blessed Pharaoh, he blessed his sons, and he blessed Joseph’s sons. The issue of maturity in life and of the reigning aspect of a […]
Maturity is Being Emptied to have an Increased Capacity to be Filled with God
October 7, 2014 by 2 Comments
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 […]
One who is Full of the Stature of Christ Reigns with Christ and Deals with the Enemy
December 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Being full of the stature of Christ is a Body matter – it cannot be accomplished individually. We need to remain in the Body and experience Christ for the Body so that we may attain to maturity in the spiritual life. Also, as we let the life of Christ grow in us and saturate all […]
Seeing the Urgency of Growth in Life Unto Maturity for God to Gain His Army
February 1, 2013 by 7 Comments
![Seeing the Urgency of Growth in Life Unto Maturity for God to Gain His Army [In the Picture: The more we pray at the incense altar, the more we will prealize that the need for maturity is desperate, adn the greater will be the urgency to pray for the growth in life unto maturity.]](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/pray-incense-altar-we-need-maturity.jpg?fit=300%2C197&ssl=1)
I am still pondering over Exodus 30, where God gives precise instructions on how to make the incense golden altar, and then immediately after that there’s the numbering of the people of Israel. This shows that the intercessory prayer at the incense altar issues in the numbering of God’s people that they would form an army to […]
growing in life to maturity to be prepared as the Bride of Christ
August 15, 2012 by 11 Comments
The direction of the Lord’s move today is, first, to build up the Body of Christ for His corporate expression, and second, to prepare the bride of Christ as His counterpart. Christ desires to have a wife, and He is working in His heavenly ministry today to prepare the church as His counterpart (John 3:29-30) […]
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