2011 winter school of truth in London, UK – Lord, speak to us what’s on Your heart!

December 24, 2011 by · 5 Comments

2011 Winter School of the truth in London, UK - Lord, release what's on Your heart!Every year there are two main events for the seeking and Jesus-loving young people in Europe – one in the summer (the Poland Camp) and one in the winter – the Winter School of the Truth (usually in London, UK). It is such a privilege to grow up as a young person in the church life in the Lord’s recovery! You can meet at least two times a year with your peers from Europe and even from other continents, and you can pursue the Lord together! Spending one week in the summer and another week in the winter under the speaking of the Lord, with the saints, and away from home yet in the camp / truth school is many times the highlight of the year for the young people! You can read some of the testimonies of the young people and the serving ones who were there at the 2011 Poland camp.

I have to testify that, growing up and attending these conferences – especially the Poland camp (as a young person and then as a helper and a serving one) and the Winter School of Truth (as a helper and a serving one) – I have seen a fresh vision of the Lord’s move and His heart’s desire! The Lord has a special burden for the young ones – for those who are open, ready to receive a new thought and a new vision, who are ready to be used by the Lord… It is through the young people that the Lord has turned the age again and again (see Joshua, Gideon, Samuel, David, Daniel, John the Baptist, etc). If the Lord gains a generation of young people who are absolute for Him, who consecrate their life and their future to Him, and who are serious with the Lord, He can be hastened in His return and in turning this age!

The 2011 Winter School of Truth

Next week the 2011 Winter School of Truth begins in Bower House, London, and a little over 200 saints and young people are gathering in two age groups to get into the truth and obtain an eternal deposit of truth and life! [you can read more details about it online] Saints, the best thing we can do is to PRAY for this time! Some of us can go, others can help, and all of us can and should pray! The Lord needs to release what is on His heart and gain a generation of young ones to bring Him back! For this, He needs us to lay the tracks through our prayers. He needs us to pray according to His heart. There’s something in His heart to speak to the young ones, and this can be released as we pray and intercede before the Lord about this….

This is why I would like to INVITE you to pray as a comment to this blog post! You can add maybe two or three sentences as a prayer to join yourself with the hundreds of parents, students, serving ones, older saints, children, young people, and all ages everywhere over Europe and around the world praying for this time. Put a comment below with your prayer, your AMEN, and your cooperation with the Lord in this…. I will go ahead and start….

Lord, speak to us what’s on Your heart!

O, Lord Jesus, the Winter School of Truth in London in 2011! O, Lord, the young people in Europe! Lord, speak to us what is on Your heart! Whatever is in Your heart for the young people, Lord, have a free way to release it! Sanctify this whole week! Clear the sky, Lord, and grant all the young people an open sky with nothing between them and You! Lord, shine in this time! Open the heavens to us that we may see You and hear what You are speaking today! O, Lord, gain the Samuels and Daniels of today! Produce the overcomers! Gain those who will pay the price to bring You back! Lord, raise up some to meet Your need – some Nazarites! Those who bring in the kingdom on earth today!

O, Lord, bind Your enemy and any of his frustrations! Bind any looseness and any manifestation of the flesh. Lord, we pray for the young people to be normal Christians who overcome to enjoy You, eat You, and live one spirit with You! Lord, speak something concerning Salvation – the full salvation of God! Lord, speak concerning The Two Spirits – the Spirit with our spirit! Bring out the truth, Lord, and deposit the high peak truths into the beings of the young ones! Load the young people with the good things and send them out with the cargo of the gospel! O, Lord, we look to You for Your blessing! [picture source: prayer]

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this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony!

December 12, 2011 by · 5 Comments

this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony!I am so encouraged with what the Lord is doing today! On the one hand we have the high peak truth and the high gospel – the complete gospel as revealed in the whole New Testament – and on the other hand we have a way to enjoy the Lord, practice the church life, build up the Body, and become the Bride of Christ! In His recovery the Lord is continually speaking – conference after conference, training after training, meeting after meeting, and even morning after morning as we spend time with Him. Our speaking God is a moving God – He speaks to us and He moves in us, taking us on and eventually becoming, together with us, the New Jerusalem!

the focus of the Lord’s recovery

Recently there was a lot of speaking and burden on the matter of The Focus of the Lord’s Recovery (see here more), which is nothing else but the corporate expression of the Triune God. What is the Lord’s recovery focusing on? We are focusing on the Lord’s desire to obtain a corporate expression for the Triune God in humanity. Practically, we see this in the many local churches everywhere around the globe. Recently there was the resumption of the Lord’s table meeting in Manchester, UK – the Lord recovered the oneness and the proper ground in Manchester! Praise the Lord for all the local churches!

the gospel of the kingdom

Matt 24:14 says, This gospel of the kingdom will be preached to the whole inhabited earth for a testimony, and then the end will come. Today as kingdom people with the divine life in us, we the saints in the church life are in the reality of the kingdom! The Lord is gaining a lampstand to stand and shine and express Him! He does so in city after city – and He does it by us preaching the gospel of the kingdom! When the gospel of the kingdom is preached, there is a testimony to all – for all to see the corporate expression of the Triune God!

God became a man, lived a perfect human life on earth, died on the cross to deal with all the negative things in the universe, and He became the life-giving Spirit to impart and breathe Himself into man! Now we as believers have another source – the divine life – and we live by another life, having another way of living! We live by the divine life and we practically live the church life in the local church where the Lord has placed us!

don’t wait for a persecution to come

On the one hand we enjoy the Lord in His Word and in the the rich ministry which opens up the Word, but on the other hand we are all commissioned to preach the gospel of the kingdom! In the beginning of the church life in Jerusalem the disciples grew and multiplied, but not many went out of Jerusalem. So the Lord sent a persecution (Acts 8:1) – and many of the believers were scattered everywhere, and wherever they went they preached the gospel! Wherever we go, wherever the Lord sends us, we preach the high gospel!

Don’t wait for a persecution to come – go before the Lord and be open to Him as to where He wants to send you! He may send you right where you are so that you may live by the divine life and speak the gospel of the kingdom, but He may also want to send you to a place where there’s no church life! And then it all starts with a lot of prayer, a lot of consideration, a lot of fellowship, and the Lord accompanies you wherever you go! Just be open to Him and do not be set, settled, and occupied – we need to be sendable by the Lord!

having a heart to go out

In Romans 10 right after Paul brings us to call on the name of the Lord he mentions, how beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news. Our calling with our mouth to receive the Lord and be saved in His life is empowering us and even sending us to go and speak the gospel! We call on the name of the Lord and we exercise our feet to go! I was touched by the Lord about this – God has prepared some who are ready, ripe, and willing to receive Him and enjoy the gospel of the kingdom – but I need to be open to Him to be sent by Him!

As I am exercising my spirit to touch the Lord, He will bring me into contact with other thirsty ones that He may reach out to them and fill them! Christ is the desire of the nations – the all-inclusive Christ is what all the nations desire and yearn to know, possess, and enjoy. We just need to be open to the Lord and have a heart to go out! We need to rise up, bring this to the Lord, and allow Him to shine on us – Lord, am I set? Lord, am I occupied and busy? Lord, here I am, send me (Isa. 6:8)!

[sharing inspired from the recent fellowship given in both the Thanksgiving Conference and in the resumption of the Lord's Table Meeting in Manchester, UK, concerning the focus of the Lord's recovery being to obtain the corporate expression of the Triune God.]
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we are commissioned to preach the high gospel, the entire truth revealed in the Word of God

November 12, 2011 by · 3 Comments

we are commissioned to preach the high gospel, the entire truth revealed in the Word of GodPraise the Lord for the four great pillars in the Lord’s recovery! The truth brings in the divine life, life produces the church, and the commission of the church is to preach the gospel – which is the truth! Everything starts with the divine truths in the Word of God, and everything is related to the truth. This is the reason we need to immerse ourselves and spend time to read the Bible, read the life-studies, read the ministry books, and study the Word of God, in all this time praying and opening to the Lord that He may shine on the Word and make it the living Word to us.

preaching the high gospel, the full gospel

The commission of the church is to preach the gospel so that God’s desire would be fulfilled – “God desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:3-4). The gospel we speak today is not the low and dilluted gospel we hear in Christianity, nor is it the prosperity gospel. The gospel is the truth in the Bible – the entire Bible is the gospel, so our speaking of the truth is our preaching of the gospel! More specifically, here are some examples of the high peak truth – gospel speaking:

The Triune God – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – is dispensing Himself into us – the sinful, tripartite men – that our sins may be forgiven and that we may receive God’s life and have God Himself in us for our transformation into the sons of God, that we may express God in a corporate way!
God wants to enter into man and make sinners sons of God, the living members of the Body of Christ for the constitution of the church; the church is expressed in different localities so that the many sons of God may live the church life in the local churches as the procedure for God to obtain the New Jerusalem, the ultimate mingling of God and man!
Christ today is the life-giving Spirit to impart life into every part of our being and make us sons of God, members of Christ, and the one new man, so that together with the other God-men believers we would express Him and shine Him forth for eternity! This is what satisfies God and this is what makes us happy, since we were created in God’s image and likeness!

These are just some examples of how high the gospel is, and for us to speak the high gospel for which every human being yearns we need to be constituted with the truth! Yes, we have the truth; yes, we have the divine life, and yes, we are the church – but for us to preach the gospel and to bring others to receive the divine life, we need to dig into the Word of God, be constituted with the truth, know the truth, and speak forth the truth in the Word of God!

being constituted with the truth for preaching the gospel

No matter how modern, cool, or amazing things people have or invent – the advance of the technology and entertainment in the world today has not filled the emptiness within man; rather, it has enlarged it, since they try to be filled and happy with so many things when only One Thing satisfies – God Himself! Only the high truths in the Lord’s recovery can match the need of today’s hunger in the world – people are fed up with the low feel-good gospel in the Christianity. It is our commission and responsibility to learn the truth, diligently study the truth in the Word of God, and be constituted with the truth so that we may speak the truth to others!

The gospel is the truth – the gospel is not only a part of the truth, but the gospel is composed of all the divine truths in the Word of God. This is why we get saved every time we go to a home meeting – the truth in the Bible is being spoken and we are saved much more (Rom. 5:10)! As we go on with the Lord, we have a burden to speak to others about Him – for this, we need to spend time to get into the truth so that we may speak the truth as the gospel to people! This is our commission – to actively preach the gospel and teach the truth.

[sharing inspired from the book, Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel—the Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery. You can purchase the morning revival book online, follow the articles on The Four Great Pillars on this blog and become a fan on facebook for more updates. Picture source: Preaching the Word.]

Lord, make us those who are diligent to get into Your word and gain the truth in the Word. Strengthen us to pay the price to be constituted with the truth. O, Lord, shine on the truth in the Word whenever we come to the Bible! Constitute us little by little with the divine truths in the Word so that we can also speak them! May we fulfill our commission of preaching the gospel by preaching the truth constituted into us!

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The Four Great Pillars in the Lord’s Recovery: Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel (ITERO 2011)

October 26, 2011 by · 27 Comments

The Four Great Pillars in the Lord's Recovery: Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel (ITERO 2011)Praise the Lord for the recent ITERO in Holland! The main topic of the fall International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones, held in Baarloo, Holland, is, The Four Great Pillars in the Lord’s Recovery. These four great pillars are Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel. There is a book with the same name published by Living Stream Ministry (The Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel, Four Great Pillars in The Lord’s Recovery). This portion here is just a short enjoyment from this message, and is an attempt to bring more saints in the fellowship and collective enjoyment of the Lord’s up-to-date speaking.

The apostle John wrote in 1 John 2:7-8, Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you but an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you heard. Yet again a new commandment I am writing to you, which is true in Him and in you because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. Even the four great pillars in the Lord’s recovery can be considered as “an old commandment”, and the Lord’s recovery itself is not bringing something new to the table – it is the same word spoken by God from the beginning, but now it shines with new light and enlightenment! The footnote here is marvelous,

The commandment regarding brotherly love is both old and new: old, because the believers have had it from the beginning of their Christian life; new, because in their Christian walk it dawns with new light and shines with new enlightenment and fresh power again and again.

The Lord’s speaking and His Word is NEW – nothing stale or worn out, decaying; because of the true light, the truths in the Lord’s recovery dawn on us with new light and shine with new enlightenment and fresh power again and again. Also, this light renews us as believers in our daily walk continually. This is the heart and the attitude we come to the four crucial pillars in the Lord’s recovery. The Lord’s recovery is mainly founded upon four pillars: truth, life, the church, and the gospel (Eph. 1:13; 4:18; 5:23-25, 29, 32; 6:15).

The First Great Pillar in the Lord’s Recovery: Truth

It may not be our portion as believers in Christ to provide the proper interpretation of the Word of God, but in the Lord’s recovery God has provided us the ministry of the age, which brings in the proper interpretation of the whole Bible. The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of the divine truths as revealed in the Word of God. The Bible has been with man for more than 4000 years, but the truth in the Bible has been recovered throughout the ages and now we have both the Bible, the Word of God, and the proper and balanced interpretation of the Word of God.

We need to be absolute for the truth – not accommodating the truth because of our feelings, preferences, or natural inclinations. The Lord needs a recovery in which the truth is as absolute as it is in God Himself. The standard in the Lord’s recovery is not the success in our work but the standard of the truth – the truth we put out is the measure we do everything! The kind of church we build up depends on the kind of truth we teach – there’s a desperate need of the living truth to produce the church, to help the church exist, and to build up the church!

We all need to be constituted with the truth – we need to have the truth wrought into us and constituted into our very being (1 John 1:8; 2 John 2-3; John 3-4). We need to see that there is a desperate need for the living truth – not just the truth in the Bible, but God shining in Christ on the truth and making it living to us. The truth is first the objective revelation in the written Word of God, then as the Lord shines on the truth in the Word and in the ministry, and also shines in our being, that will become the truth in us! The shining of the light on the truth and the shining of the truth into our being brings the truth to be the constituent of our being!

Remember: memorization is NOT constitution! Yes, it helps if we memorize the truth, but what we desperately need is for the Lord’s light to shine simultaneously on the objective truth and on our being, and then the truth will become forever a part of our inner being, a constant supply and nourishment to us for our whole life! The content of the truth is light – when the element of the truth is in our being, the light of the truth is in us, filling us with light, life, and life supply! We need to see the desperate need to be constituted with the high truth in the Word of God!

The Second Great Pillar in the Lord’s Recovery: Life

It is really important for us to realize that God does not give us “things” or matters; in God’s economy everything is a matter of persons. God gives us a Person – Christ! Both TRUTH and LIFE is Christ Himself! It all starts with the truth – the experience of the Lord as life is contained in the Lord as the truth. You cannot have life without the truth – when someone speaks the truth to us, when we hear the gospel, life is generated in us! The truth is the container, and life is the content of the truth. When we speak the truth, we minister life into others! People receive the truth and they get life!

The Lord is in us as our life – we can’t see / touch the life, so the experience of life needs an explanation – this explanation is the truth (Col. 3:4; 1:5). So many times we were in a meeting under the speaking of the truth and we realized: THIS is what is happening in my life these days! We may experience something of the divine life, but unless we have the truth to explain it, we don’t really know or share it to others… But once we get into the truth, we see that many times our experience of life is according to the truth. Now we can also go on to present the truth to others – the living truth, the truth we experienced.

What about our growth in life? What about the growth in life of the saints we care for? Do we care whether we or not the saints grow in life? Can we rest while knowing that the saints don’t grow year after year? If there’s no growth in life unto maturity, the Lord cannot return – He’s not coming back to marry an immature bride. We need to enter into the Holy of Holies and know God, experience God, and grow in the divine life. So many times we may be part of the crowd of the saints who are in the Holy Place… – but we need to go on, grow in life!

The Third Great Pillar in the Lord’s Recovery: The Church

The truth brings in life, and once we have the divine life, we become the church (John 18:37; 10:10; 1 Cor. 10:32). The church is the house of the living God – God dwells in His house, the church! The truth is the source, when the truth comes to us, it brings life to us; when we receive life, we become the church, the house of God, even the incorporation of God and man! The truth releases life to produce the church, and the church is the pillar and base of the truth (1 Tim. 3:15), holding forth and shining out the truth to the entire universe!

Especially in Europe, where darkness prevails, where the young ones are thirsty for the truth but they are fed with the thought that we are in a “post-God era” – in the places where the Reformation was so strong, may the Lord recover many seeking ones to be the church! Wherever the Lord’s truth shines, life comes in, and the church comes into existence! In the midst of unreality and darkness, we as the church are unshaken – the church is a PILLAR, and light shines in the darkness, the darkness cannot overcome it! As we express the truth, we become the truth – we are truth-life-men, testifying the truth by shining it out!

The Fourth Great Pillar in the Lord’s Recovery: The Gospel

What is the Gospel? It is not only what the four gospels as the first four books of the New Testament convey. The entire New Testament is the gospel of God – and our speaking of the truth in the Bible, the high peak truth, the interpreted truth, is our preaching of the gospel! This is our commission today – to be constituted with the truth and to speak the truth (Matt. 28:19). The gospel that we preach in the Lord’s recovery is the purest, the highest, and the most complete gospel (Rom. 1:1, 3-4; Mark 1:1-14; Acts 20:24; Eph. 3:8; 2 Cor. 4:4). This gospel includes all the truths in the Bible – the entire Bible is the gospel of God!

… there are so many other matters that were touched in this message, and now it is up to us all to share these riches, proclaim them, and fulfill our commission to SPEAK THE TRUTH = PREACH THE GOSPEL! Please leave a comment below with your top enjoyment in this message: either from your being in the ITERO, from reading the above, from listening to the message, or from what the Lord touched you. It is so good to be under the speaking in the Lord’s recovery, with the ministry of the age!

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