Moses’ prayer in Exo. 33:13 should also be our prayer, “Please let me know Your ways”, so that we may be those knowing God’s ways and thus know God Himself. Moses was respectfully asking God to let him know God’s ways so that he may be pleasing to Him; he was not begging nor religious, […]
The Prayer that Expresses God’s Will according to the Pattern of the Lord’s Prayer
The Lord Jesus taught us in Matt. 6 a pattern of prayer – the prayer that expresses God’s will (see Matt. 6:9-15). The principle of prayer set forth by the Lord in this portion includes three basic prayers concerning God, three requests for our needs, and three reverent praises as extolling prayers; all these three […]
Offering Ourselves to God for His Fire to Burn in us and Motivate us for His Service
All the service that we as believers in Christ offer to God should be based on the fire that comes from God; we need to be those who are offering ourselves to God for His fire to burn in us and energize us to serve Him. In the Old Testament all the service of the priests […]
God is a Consuming Fire, Christ cast Fire on Earth, and the Spirit is a Burning Flame
The source of our service must be God, and the basis of our work must be the fire from the altar. In serving God we need to have not only the proper source (which is God Himself) but also the proper basis, the basic principle of our work. If we don’t have the proper basis, […]