Obeying God in Faith and Having a Crystal Clear Vision with the Divine Provision

Gen. 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh, as it is said to this day, On the mount of Jehovah it will be provided.

Many people who read the story in Genesis 22 - the one about God requesting Abraham to bring his beloved son, Isaac, as a burnt offering - think that God is too much in asking this from Abraham, and Abraham was too strong in faith (something which … [Continue reading]

Learning the Lesson of Offering Back to God what He has Given us and Rely only on God

Heb. 11:17 By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Indeed he who gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten.

Abraham learned the lesson of offering back to God what He has given him. In Gen. 22:1-18 we see that God asked Abraham to bring his beloved son, his only son, Isaac, as a burnt offering on one of the mountains in Moriah. Even though Isaac was born … [Continue reading]

Our Enjoyment of Christ in the Church Life Produces us as a Burnt Offering for God

Gen. 22:2 And He said, Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.

The God of Abraham is our God, and Abraham's experience of God needs to become our experience of God in our Christian life today. According to Rom. 4:17, Abraham had a twofold knowledge of God: first, he knew God as the One who calls things not being … [Continue reading]

Eternal Life is the Triune God Dispensed into us to be our Life and to Live in us

Life is the Triune God dispensed into us and living in us

Life is mysterious because life is God Himself. Our human life is mysterious and we are not able to fully understand it. How much more the life of God? If we can barely grasp what our human life is about, what about the eternal life? Throughout the … [Continue reading]

Enjoying and Experiencing God as the Eternal One by Calling on the Name of the Lord

Before the mountains were brought forth, And before You gave birth to the earth and the world, Indeed from eternity to eternity, You are God. (Psa. 90:2)

Our God is one, yet He is the Triune God. He is one, yet He has many names depending on our experience and enjoyment of Him. He is called Jehovah in His relationship with man, in coming to be with man and caring for man, especially in the Old … [Continue reading]

Eat the Tree of Life and Drink the Water of Life to be a Tamarisk Tree in the Church Life

Gen. 21:33, And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal God.

The Bible doesn't record insignificant matters and stories; rather, everything that the Bible says is true, significant, full of meaning, and has a place in God's economy. In Gen. 21 we see that Abraham fought for the well he dug and was taken by … [Continue reading]

Singing to the Well and Digging Away all the Dirt in our Being so that Life may Flow

Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, O well! Sing to it! The well, which the leaders sank, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, with their staffs... (Num. 21:17-18)

God's desire is to be the fountain of living waters to His people for them to drink, have their thirst quenched, and spontaneously live a life for God's purpose. In order to become the fountain of living waters to us, God became a man and, in … [Continue reading]