Five Aspects of Gaining Christ that He might Gain us in our Experience of Christ

...I pursue, if even I may lay hold of that for which I also have been laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Phil. 3:12

We want to be those who are gaining Christ that He may gain us in our experience of Christ. As believers in Christ, we gain Christ that He might gain us (Phil. 3:12) in many different aspects; we need to experience Christ day by day so that we … [Continue reading]

Follow the Pattern of Paul in Philippians to Take Christ as Everything in our Experience

For to me, to live is Christ... Phil. 1:21

We need to follow the pattern of Paul as seen in Philippians to take Christ as our everything in our daily experience. Paul did not just write to the Philippians to encourage them to go on with the Lord; he testified again and again how he took … [Continue reading]

Enjoy and Experience Christ as our Life and Everything by Exercising our Spirit

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Cor. 1:9

We need to see and realize inwardly that God doesn't want anything other than Christ Himself; His goal is to recover Christ as everything to us, and this Christ needs to be subjective to us as the Spirit. Like the apostle Paul, we need to pursue … [Continue reading]

Christ is the Desire of God’s Heart – we are here for the Expression of Christ!

And behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight. Matt. 3:17

Christ is the desire of God's heart, for God desires that every person and thing in the universe would express Christ; we exist for the expression of Christ, and Christ is the reality of every positive thing in the universe. Hallelujah! This week … [Continue reading]

Enjoy Christ as the Supreme Preciousness of God to become Men of Preciousness to God

...if you bring out the precious from the worthless, / You will be as My mouth... Jer. 15:19

We need to redeem the time to enjoy Christ as the supreme preciousness of God so that we can be constituted with Him to be men of preciousness, even preciousness itself, to be His personal treasure, the New Jerusalem as a miraculous structure of … [Continue reading]

Christ Takes Care of the Churches by Shining, Exposing, Infusing, and Establishing us

...These things says the Son of God, He who has eyes like a flame of fire... Rev. 2:18

Christ takes care of the churches in His divinity with His divine love, nourishing them in His divinity and cherishing them in His humanity; His eyes are like a flame of fire to watch, observe, search, judge by enlightening, and infuse what He is … [Continue reading]

The Vision of the Glorious Christ Walking Among the Churches as the High Priest

And I turned...I saw...in the midst of the lampstands One like the Son of Man... Rev. 1:12-13

For the genuine church life, we need to see a vision of the glorious Christ as the Son of Man walking in the midst of the local churches as the High Priest to cherish them and nourish them. What a wonderful, glorious, and amazing Christ we … [Continue reading]