Our Heart is Deceitful and our Nature is Evil but God can write His Law of Life on us

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is incurable; who can know it? Jer. 17:9

In Jeremiah God exposes what we are in our fallen condition: our heart is deceitful above all things, even incurable, and our fallen nature is unchangeable. Just as the Cushite cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots, so we who are … [Continue reading]

Drinking the Living Water to be Satisfied Uniquely with God and become the New Jerusalem

...If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water. John 4:10

When we drink of Christ as the living water, this will become in us a fountain of water springing up into eternal life, into the New Jerusalem; only by drinking the living water can we be satisfied and never disappointed! Our God has passed through … [Continue reading]

God wants us take Him as the Fountain of Living Waters and Drink of Him day by day!

For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, which hold no water. Jer. 2:13

What God wants from us, His people, is that we would drink of Him as the fountain of living waters so that He may be the source of our life and our being; we need to take God as the fountain of living waters by drinking of Him day by day. This week … [Continue reading]

As we have a Deep Concern for others, God makes our Tears into a Spring: the Spirit!

…The crowd of cares pressing upon me daily, the anxious concern for all the churches. 2 Cor. 11:28

The best way to care for others is by having a deep concern for them, being concerned for their well-being and going on; furthermore, when we in the church life pass through the valley of weeping, God makes this valley a spring, which is the … [Continue reading]

Caring for others by being Filled with the Intimate Concern of the Ministering Life

But I, I will most gladly spend and be utterly spent on behalf of your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved less? 2 Cor. 12:15

Paul's writing and expression toward the believers was tender and filled with the intimate concern of the ministering life; he didn't just rebuke or exhort, but he wept, he exhorted with tears, and he was intimately concerned for the … [Continue reading]

Having Spiritual Emotions and being Tenderhearted for God to be Expressed through us

Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease admonishing each one with tears. Acts 20:31

In order that God may be fully expressed through us, we need to have spiritual emotions and be tenderhearted with one another, and we need to be able to serve God with tears, even as Jeremiah and Paul also did. Amen! We don't know when the Lord's … [Continue reading]

Allowing God access to our Feelings and Emotions to Express our Tenderhearted God

Oh that my head were waters, / And my eye a fountain of tears, / That I might weep day and night / For the slain of the daughter of my people! Jer. 9:1

In the book of Jeremiah we see both God's tenderheartedness and His righteousness; our God is a tenderhearted God, but He is also righteous, and He wants to train and discipline us in our emotions to match Him. In this book we see God revealed in a … [Continue reading]