Christ as our peace offering is strong and rich for our enjoyment, but in our experience our enjoyment of Christ as our peace offering depends on our condition and situation before God. The peace offering could be of different animals from the herd or from the flock (different size) and it could be male or […]
Loving the Lord and being Washed by His Living Word to be the Counterpart of Christ
January 8, 2018 by 8 Comments
This week we are enjoying one of the most wonderful statuses of the church – the church as the counterpart of Christ, the bride of Christ; the work in the Lord’s recovery is His genuine work to prepare His bride. A counterpart is one that closely resembles another; it is one that has the same […]
We need to Draw Near to God to be the Priests and Kings Ministering to Him Today
November 1, 2017 by 10 Comments
The more we draw near to God to be closer to Him as priests and kings to God, the more important we are to Him, and the more He can fulfil His purpose through us. The picture portrayed by the allotment of the land in Ezek. 48:1-35 shows that, in the restoration from Dan in […]
The Work of the Holy Spirit can be Revealed at the Time of Ministering to the Lord
October 19, 2017 by 9 Comments
The unique principle for the work in the New Testament is that the work of the Holy Spirit can be revealed only at the time of ministering to the Lord. We see this in Acts 13:1-2, where there were some brothers in the church in Antioch who were ministering to the Lord and fasting, and […]
Ministering to the Lord not by Human Effort or Sweat but in God’s Rest and Blessing
October 18, 2017 by 7 Comments
According to Ezek. 44:17-18, those who minister to the Lord should not wear woolen but linen garments, so that they would not sweat; this means that as we serve the Lord we should do a work with no sweat, no human effort, a work under God’s blessing. We want to be those who minister to […]
Ministering to the Lord by Drawing Near to Him and Spending Time with Him in Prayer
October 17, 2017 by 7 Comments
The Lord desires us to minister to Him by drawing near to Him, spend time before the Lord and pray more, and wait for His will to be revealed to us and infused into us, so that we may minister not only to His house but to the Lord Himself. In Ezek. 44 the Lord […]
Take time to Behold the Lord in the Morning: Don’t Seek a Feeling but simply Touch Him!
August 8, 2017 by 5 Comments
We must cooperate with God’s desire by practicing to give Him a free way to spread Himself into every part of our being. (The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1963, Vol. 1) How wonderful it is to give our dear Lord the first place in all things! God desires to have the preeminence, but He […]
