We are the Body of Christ in Actuality when we Remain in the Organic Union with Christ

So we who are many are one Body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Rom. 12:5

The highest peak in God's economy is the reality of the Body of Christ, and this reality is absolutely organic; we can be in the Body in reality by being in Christ, that is, by abiding in the organic union with the Lord. This week in our deeper and … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to travail in birth over their spiritual children until Christ is formed in them

My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you. Gal. 4:19

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the pattern of the apostle in learning to travail in birth over their spiritual children until Christ is formed in them (Gal. 4:19). Paul told the Galatian believers that he was again travailing … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to foster the new believers as a nursing mother and as an exhorting father

Just as you know how we were to each one of you, as a father to his own children, exhorting you and consoling you and testifying. 1 Thes. 2:11

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the apostle’s pattern to foster the new believers as a nursing mother cherishes her own children and as a father exhorts, consoles, and testifies to his own children (1 Thes. 2:6-8, 11). In verse … [Continue reading]

God’s Dealing with Jacob is a full picture of the Spirit’s Discipline and Transforming Work in us

And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect. Rom. 12:2

It is such a mercy and a blessing for us as believers in Christ that God would deal with our natural disposition today through the Holy Spirit's discipline and His transforming work so that Christ may be formed in us, grow in us, and bring us to … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to follow the apostle Paul’s pattern in boasting in those gained, perfected, and built up through him

For I know your eagerness, of which I boast on your behalf to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared since last year; and your zeal has stirred up the greater number of them. 2 Cor. 9:2

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the pattern of the apostle Paul, who boasted in those who had been gained, perfected, and built up through him (2 Thes. 1:3-4; Phil. 2:16-17; 2 Cor. 9:2; 1:14). In 2 Thessalonians 1:3 and 4 Paul … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to consider their spiritual children as their hope, joy, crown, and glory

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at His coming? Are not even you? For you are our glory and joy. 1 Thes. 2:19-20

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the apostle’s pattern in considering the ones saved and nurtured by them as their hope, their joy, their crown of boasting, and their glory (1 Thes. 2:19-20 and note 20-1; Phil. 4:1). Here Paul … [Continue reading]

Let us pray for the saints to have a burden, an interest, and a care for people in order to gain them

So then, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, in the same way stand firm in the Lord, beloved. Phil. 4:1

Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would have a burden, an interest, and a care for people in order to gain them as the Lord’s increase, and that the saints would bring this matter to the Lord and ask Him to infuse them with His heart for … [Continue reading]