After God appeared to Abraham, without God telling him to do anything like this, Abraham built an altar. The result and the issue of God appearing to us is that we build an altar and offer everything we have and are to the Lord for His purpose. When we have God’s appearing, when we touch […]
Experiencing God at Shechem (knowing God), Bethel (house of God), and Hebron (fellowship)
God appeared to Abraham and called him out of his land and out of his house to a land that He would give to him and to his seed after him. If we read the record in the book of Genesis, we see that Abraham sojourned in the land of Canaan, having God’s appearing and […]
God’s Appearing Issues in our Consecration: our Life is for God and God is our Life
Abraham was a man just like us, not necessarily seeking God or being for God, until God appeared to him. When God appeared to Abraham, something changed in him: he left his homeland and his family, and he followed God’s instructions to go into the land of Canaan living a life of the altar and […]
Repenting and Humbling Ourselves to be Saved from Lukewarmness and Spiritual Pride
The Lord Jesus as the High Priest is right now walking among all the local churches in order to know their situation, and He is speaking a word to the messengers of the churches so that He may produce the overcomers. Through His speaking, the Lord is trimming the charred wicks of the lamps and […]
Let the Lord Expose the Principle of Babylon to Judge and Trim Away any Leaven of Evil
Christ as the High Priest is walking among the churches and gets to know the specific condition and concrete situation of every local church (see Rev. 1-3). He then speaks to the churches a word that would both show who He is to the church, what the church’s need is, how to overcome, and what […]
Christ Intercedes for us and Speaks to us to Mend us and Make us His Overcomers
What the Lord desires to gain today is His overcomers. He Himself is the leading overcomer: He overcame and the Father gave Him to sit with Him on the throne. Now He is in us as the leading Overcomer and He wants to produce us also as His overcomers in this age. The mending ministry […]
Receive the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit by Means of All Prayer
In exhorting us to take up the whole armor of God in Eph. 6, Paul puts the offensive weapon, the sword of the Spirit, at the very end. First, he encourages us to be girded with the truth (living Christ as the reality), put on the breastplate of righteousness (apply the blood of Christ to […]