Overcome the Loss of the First Love for the Lord by Giving Him the First Place in All Things

But I have one thing against you, that you have left your first love. Rev. 2:4

As believers in Christ, we need to love the Lord Jesus with the first love, the best love; we need to overcome the loss of the first love and simply give the Lord Jesus the preeminence in all things, giving Him the first place in both big and … [Continue reading]

Loving the Lord in Incorruptibility to enjoy Him and Love others with Him as our Love

Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her. Eph. 5:25

We need to be brought into love, the inner substance of God, to enjoy God and His presence, love others as Christ did, love the Lord in incorruptibility, and be saved from degradation in the church life today. Amen! We need to be those who … [Continue reading]

Being Stirred up to Love the Lord Jesus with the First Love and Eat the Tree of Life

...To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God. Rev. 2:7

The genuine ministry of the New Testament always stirs us up to love the Lord Jesus with the first love, strengthening us in the simplicity of eating and enjoying Christ as the tree of life for our life supply; to love Him is to give Him preeminence … [Continue reading]

Learn to Discern things according to Life and Death, not according to Right and Wrong

For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present [you as] a pure virgin to Christ. 2 Cor. 11:2

As believers in Christ, we need to live according to the principle of life and discern matters not according to right and wrong but according to life and death. When a certain thing, matter, or teaching helps us enjoy the Lord more and brings us … [Continue reading]

Follow the Inner Sense of Life to Live in the Spirit and Not in the Natural Life

And those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Yet if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him. Rom. 8:8-9

In order for us as believers in Christ to live according to the principle of life, we need to follow the inner sense of life; we need to pray ourselves into the sense of life and walk under its guiding and controlling every moment. At best, the … [Continue reading]

We need to Learn to Discern the Spirit from the Soul and have a Keen Sense of Life

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 1 Cor. 6:17

If we would live according to the principle of life, we need to discern the spirit from the soul and know the spirit; the key to having a keen sense of life is to love the Lord and drop our opinions. Amen! We believers in Christ have another life … [Continue reading]

Our Christian Living is Based on the Sense of the Inner Life, not on Right or Wrong

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight. Hear Him! Matt. 17:5

Our Christian living is based on our inner life, and we determine everything based not on right or wrong but on the divine life within us with its sense and feeling; we need to come before God to determine what is of life and what is of death. … [Continue reading]