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degradation comes in when we lose our first love for the Lord, when we have an idol

March 5, 2011 by aGodMan 1 Comment

When we were saved, when we believed into the Lord for the first time, we had eyes for the Lord Jesus only, and we didn’t see anything or anyone else but Him. Actually, when we were saved we entered into a love relationship with the Lord, into a life-union with Him, where we love Him […]

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Being on the alert and guarding ourselves from all vain replacements for our genuine and true God!

March 4, 2011 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

As we have seen in previous sharings on this blog, Christ is the One pleasing to God, and He replaces everything and everyone in God’s economy. We really are nothing and can do nothing apart from Him – we just come to Him day by day to be replaced with Christ in this organic union… […]

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being awakened by God to spend time with Him and speaking as an instructed one

February 26, 2011 by aGodMan 3 Comments

The prophet Isaiah also typifies Christ as the Servant of Jehovah – he is a type of Christ especially in the aspect of witnessing for God and speaking for God. Christ is the One who speaks for God and He even is the Word of God. When the Bible speaks of Isaiah as the servant […]

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To live in the new creation, we have to turn from the things seen to the things not seen

February 25, 2011 by aGodMan 9 Comments

In order for us to live in the new creation, we have to turn from the things seen to the things not seen. The 3 verses at the end of chapter 4 in the second epistle Paul wrote to the Corinthians are very striking, for they unveil how we, the believers in Christ who have […]

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spiritual principles for fighting the spiritual warfare: fight the battle in the Body and through the Word!

February 16, 2011 by aGodMan 9 Comments

In the previous article entitled “we need to pass through Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho, and the river Jordan – for the new creation!” we saw that there are four main stations we need to pass through so that we may be completely OUT of the old creation and into the new creation. One of these stations is […]

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the old creation and the new creation as revealed in the Bible and in the book of Isaiah

February 14, 2011 by aGodMan 11 Comments

The book of Isaiah is like a miniature of the entire Bible: it has 66 chapters (just as the Bible has 66 books), the first 39 chapters talk mainly about the old creation (and they correspond to the Old Testament, which has 39 books), the last 27 chapters talk about the new creation (corresponding to […]

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sharing from the full time training in London – learning to know the Lord and to depend on Him

February 13, 2011 by aGodMan 9 Comments

The Lord desires that all men be saved and come to the full knowledge of the truth – for this, He may take “the long route” by training us daily and shepherding us every day to get into His Word, have set time with the Lord, and fellowship with the saints in the Body. With […]