In our Christian life and experience with the Lord Jesus we go on with Him by dealing with the negative things which He exposes and shines on in our being. First of all we deal with our sins, our past, our conscience, etc, and then we go on to deal with our flesh, our self, […]
It is Crucial to Deal with our Heart and be Pure in Heart Loving the Lord
The Lord Jesus as life came into our spirit, and He desires to spread into every part of our inward being so that He may make His home in us (Eph. 3:17). The key to allowing the Lord to grow in us is our heart – if we have problems in our heart or if […]
Having a Direct Contact with the Lord and Exercising our Heart to Grow in Life
What is growth in life? It is simply the increase of God and the decrease of our natural man, the increase of the stature of Christ and less of us, and more ground given to the Holy Spirit to work in us and less of ourselves. Since Christ came into our spirit at the time […]
Entering into the Two Aspects of the Divine Fellowship by the Two Spirits
We have seen that we can be in the reality of the Body of Christ if we are in the divine fellowship, the flow of the Spirit. But how can we enter in and remain in the divine fellowship? The way for us to enter into the two aspects of the divine fellowship – the […]
Appreciating the Exceeding Worth of the Church, Obtained Through God’s Own Blood
As believers in Christ, we need to have a divine sense of value so that we may appreciate the supreme preciousness of Christ and the exceeding worth of the church. Christ is the most precious One, the most excellent One, and when we see Him, when we have a revelation of His person, we will […]
Knowing and Appreciating Christ in His Excellency and Supreme Preciousness
We need to see a vision of the excellency of Christ. Paul saw it, and for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ he considered all other things (even good things) to be refuse, so that he may gain Christ (Phil. 3:7-8). We may still treasure and desire other things today, but when Christ is […]
Having a Change in our Concept of Value as we See the Preciousness of Christ
This week we have seen from the Bible that God wants us to love Him more than we love money, riches, or material things. But how can we love God – the One whom we don’t see or touch physically – and not love money – which can be touched, are so important, and “make […]