After being regenerated by God with His divine life, all the believers in Christ are in the daily process of transformation until they are being conformed to the image of the firstborn Son of God, Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:29). This process of transformation is not something outward, like an outward correction or adjustment, but an […]
Struggling with God and Being Transformed by God into Israel, a Prince of God
September 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
God selected Jacob and chose him to be His expression as a prince of God, and Jacob went through a long process of transformation and maturity to become one who not only wrestles with God but also is a prince of God, expressing God and representing Him on earth. It is amazing to see in […]
Everything that Happens to us is Under God’s Sovereignty for our Transformation
September 17, 2014 by 1 Comment
In Abraham we see God’s justification, in Isaac we see God’s grace, and in Jacob we see transformation. Abraham lived in fellowship with God and was justified by God, Isaac enjoyed God’s grace throughout his life, and Jacob lived a life under God’s transforming hand for God’s building. God gave Jacob a dream at Bethel, […]
Today God is Doing only One Thing in this Universe: Building His Eternal Habitation
September 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
In this universe today God is doing only one work: He is building His eternal habitation. In the past, God carried out the work of creation (in six days He created the heavens and the earth, see Genesis 1-2) and the work of salvation (in 33.5 years Christ accomplished redemption and brought in salvation, see […]
We need to Experience the Breaking of the Outer Man for the Release of God’s Life
September 12, 2014 by 1 Comment
Every believer in Christ needs to experience the breaking of the outer man for the release of the life of God in his spirit (Heb. 4:12). When we received the Lord Jesus into us, He as the Spirit came into our human spirit and now dwells in us; the Lord is with our spirit (2 […]
God has to Break our Natural Life; He has to Touch our Natural Life in a Drastic Way
September 11, 2014 by 2 Comments
In Genesis 32:22-32 we see a vital and crucial experience in the life of Jacob – his being broken. Before then, he passed through a long process of supplanting, cheating his brother and dad, running away from his home for fear of his life, working for Laban for 20 years (7 years for Leah, 7 […]
Seeing that We are Under the Discipline of the Holy Spirit for our Transformation
September 10, 2014 by 2 Comments
In our prayerful study of the book of Genesis we can see that in the life and experience of Jacob he had a lot of God’s dealings. Jacob was a supplanter, trying to get what he wants by tricking others into doing things they later regretted, but God was working behind the scenes by sovereignly […]
