In Jeremiah God exposes what we are in our fallen condition: our heart is deceitful above all things, even incurable, and our fallen nature is unchangeable. Just as the Cushite cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots, so we who are accustomed to doing evil cannot simply change ourselves to do good. The […]
Drinking the Living Water to be Satisfied Uniquely with God and become the New Jerusalem
When we drink of Christ as the living water, this will become in us a fountain of water springing up into eternal life, into the New Jerusalem; only by drinking the living water can we be satisfied and never disappointed! Our God has passed through a process to become a life-giving Spirit as the living […]
God wants us take Him as the Fountain of Living Waters and Drink of Him day by day!
What God wants from us, His people, is that we would drink of Him as the fountain of living waters so that He may be the source of our life and our being; we need to take God as the fountain of living waters by drinking of Him day by day. This week we come […]
As we have a Deep Concern for others, God makes our Tears into a Spring: the Spirit!
The best way to care for others is by having a deep concern for them, being concerned for their well-being and going on; furthermore, when we in the church life pass through the valley of weeping, God makes this valley a spring, which is the Spirit. In ourselves we may not really be that emotional […]
Caring for others by being Filled with the Intimate Concern of the Ministering Life
Paul’s writing and expression toward the believers was tender and filled with the intimate concern of the ministering life; he didn’t just rebuke or exhort, but he wept, he exhorted with tears, and he was intimately concerned for the saints. Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet; we could say that by nature he was […]
Having Spiritual Emotions and being Tenderhearted for God to be Expressed through us
In order that God may be fully expressed through us, we need to have spiritual emotions and be tenderhearted with one another, and we need to be able to serve God with tears, even as Jeremiah and Paul also did. Amen! We don’t know when the Lord’s return takes place; we don’t know when His […]
Allowing God access to our Feelings and Emotions to Express our Tenderhearted God
In the book of Jeremiah we see both God’s tenderheartedness and His righteousness; our God is a tenderhearted God, but He is also righteous, and He wants to train and discipline us in our emotions to match Him. In this book we see God revealed in a way that we don’t really see in any […]