How we need to function in the Body for the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love! As we grow up into the Head in life, our function will come out from the Head for the building up of the Body; the building up of the Body of Christ under […]
Live a Prophesying Life by being Revived, Living an Overcoming Life, and Speaking
The goal of prophesying in the church meetings is the building up of the Body of Christ; we need to live a life of prophesying by being revived every morning and living an overcoming life every day, and prepare to prophesy in the meetings of the church. Moses’ prayer in Num. 11:29 sounds throughout the […]
We must Desire to Prophesy, to Speak for God, so that God may Speak through us
God wants us – the saved and regenerated ones – to prophesy as prophets; God wants us to be so one with Him that He speaks within us and through us according to the principle of incarnation, and we should also desire to prophesy. In Num. 11:29 we see Moses’ desire that not just him […]
Prophesying by Speaking forth God’s Word to Fulfill His Desire and Build up the Church
In Ezekiel 37 we see not only our condition when we’re fallen or backslidden (“dry bones”) but also God’s solution: prophesying, that is, the need to prophesy by speaking for the Lord so that the Spirit would come in and enliven us! On the one hand, the many dry, disjointed, very dry, separated bones in […]
Preparing and Practicing to Prophesy for the Building up of the Church
In Matthew 16:18 the Lord Jesus spoke the greatest prophecy in the Bible, I will build My church. In 1 Corinthians 14:4 the apostle Paul says something amazing, He who prophesies builds up the church. To prophesy is not merely foretelling the future, but mainly to speak for Christ, to speak forth Christ and to […]
our ability to prophesy is produced through the daily enjoyment of Christ
The greatest of all gifts and the most excelling gift for the building up of the church is prophesying (see 1 Cor. 1:2, 9, 24, 30; 5:7-8; 10:3-4; 15:45). All the believers have this gift, and this excelling gift of prophesying is produced in the growth in life through the enjoyment of Christ (see 1 […]
taking the way of each one prophesying for the building up of the church
The way for us to build up the church as the organic Body of Christ is through prophesying. God desires to have a built-up church, and Christ promised, “I will build My church” (Matt. 16:18). How does Christ build up His church? In Ephesians 4:15-16 we see that the whole Body grows by holding the […]