As believers in Christ, we must always remember that our service to Him should be God’s flowing out to supply others with the divine life (see John 7:37-39); for this, we need to be one with Christ in His life-releasing death so that His life would flow through us. Serving God is not something we […]
To Minister Life is to have the Outflow of Life through the Exercise of our Spirit
As those who serve the Lord in spirit and in the church, we need to be deeply impressed with the necessity of being able to minister life (see 1 John 5:11-16), that is, to have an outflow of life. What we need in the church life is not more great gifts, talented people, or greater […]
Divine Life is in our Mingled Spirit: we need to Release our Spirit to Minister life
As believers in Christ and children of God, we have the eternal life of God in our mingled spirit: now we can experience life and minister life to other members of the Body of Christ. The divine life we have received through regeneration is the processed and consummated Triune God in Christ as the Spirit […]
Our Service in the Church should Minister Life to Others to Supply them with Life
Our service for the building up of the church is a life-ministering service, a service that ministers life to the saints. We have seen that we need to serve God by knowing the age, by realizing the way Christ fulfills His economy, by seeing the world situation as the indicator of the Lord’s move, and […]
The Basis of Genuine Service is Knowing the Cross to Allow the Divine Fire to Burn in us
So many people today “serve God” but without the divine fire and without knowing the cross; some serve God as a proffession, others serve Him from time to time, while even others serve Him as a duty, outwardly. But the service that God desires to receive from us is simply our placing ourselves on the […]
Offering Ourselves to God for His Fire to Burn in us and Motivate us for His Service
All the service that we as believers in Christ offer to God should be based on the fire that comes from God; we need to be those who are offering ourselves to God for His fire to burn in us and energize us to serve Him. In the Old Testament all the service of the priests […]
Every Service to God must be Based on the Fire from the Altar of Burnt Offering
Our God is a consuming fire, Christ came to cast fire on earth, the Spirit is seven lamps of fire burning before God’s throne, the Triune God is burning in resurrection to call us, the word of God is like fire burning in us, and our serving God should be based on the fire from […]