As believers in Christ, we have the life of God in us, and this life wants to be expressed through us and be lived out of us. Hallelujah, we have God’s life in us (Col. 3:4; Rom. 8:10)! We need God to open our eyes, though, to see that our natural man, our very person, […]
knowing the pathway of life: death is the way for God’s life to be released
The Christian life is a life and a living on the pathway of life; as Christians and as followers of the Lord Jesus we need to enter through the narrow gate and walk on the constricted way which leads to life (see Matt. 7:13-14). What is this pathway of life? We have the divine life […]
dealing with our mind, emotion, and will so that Christ may live in us
For the Lord’s life to flow into us and out of us freely we need to deal with any obstacles and any problems in its way. Eventually, we will realize that the problem is not this or that thing, this or that matter, or even this or that part of our being. Our person with […]
loving the Lord by giving Him the first place in our work and in our speaking
To love the Lord with the first love is to give Christ the first place in everything, and this means that we need to give Christ the first place in our work and in our speaking. Even in working for the Lord, we may do something out of ourselves and with a hidden motive to […]
overcoming the loss of the first love by giving Christ the first place in everything
I feel like we can never exhaust this topic which is also our experience daily. How can we overcome the loss of our first love for the Lord? How can we come back to Him to love Him with our first and our best love? We need to overcome the loss of the first love […]
to love the Lord with the first love is to repent and do the first works
What does it mean to love the Lord with the first love? What does it mean to give the Lord the preeminence in all things? What does it mean to give the Lord the first place? When we first see the Lord and are captured by His beauty, we love Him with the first love. […]
offering up a sacrifice of praise to God through Christ and with Christ
What does it mean to praise the Lord? Does it mean to simply say it? Does it mean that only in the meetings of the church we raise our voices and we say, Praise God? This morning I was encouraged to see further than to worship God and to praise God means to simply present […]