In the book of Numbers we see how the Israelites were formed into an army to protect God’s testimony and fight for His move on earth; for this, an Israelite male had to be at least twenty years old, which is related to growth and maturity. This week in our deeper study of the book […]
Pursuing Growth and Maturity in Life, and Having God Built into us and us into God
As those who love the Lord and desire to be part of His overcoming bride, we need to pursue the growth and maturity in life, we need to know the Body, and we need to be built together with the saints in the Triune God as the Body of Christ. The bride of Christ is […]
The Readiness of the Bride Depends on the Maturity in Life of the Overcomers
The direction of the Lord’s move today is to prepare the bride of Christ, and the readiness of the bride depends on the maturity in life of the overcomers. From the beginning to the end of the Bible we can see that God desires to gain a bride – He wants to gain a counterpart […]
Being God-men with Blessing Hands and Prophesying with Blessing Concerning Others
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
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
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
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 […]