God is being Wrought into us to make us the New Jerusalem: we need to be Open Vessels

 The Lord Jesus will write the name of His God, the name of the city of God (the New Jerusalem), and His new name upon the one in the recovered church who overcomes. God is working Himself into us to make us a living composition of God and man consummating in the New Jerusalem, […]

We need to be an Open Vessel Loving the Lord and Letting Him Dispense Himself into us

 God created us as living vessels with a mind, emotion, and will, and He desires that we be open vessels in an active-passive way: an open vessel to the Lord loving Him but not being eager to do things for Him but letting Him do everything in us. God created us not to be […]

God Created Man as a Vessel to Contain God as Life for the Fulfillment of His Purpose

 In order to fulfil His purpose, God created man as a vessel to contain Him as life; God chose us that we may be vessels of honour filled with the Triune God, He makes known His glory upon us that we may be vessels of glory, and by His mercy, we’re vessels of mercy. […]

Seeing that Everything Depends on God’s Mercy and being the Open Vessels of Mercy

Everything depends on God’s mercy; it’s all because of His mercy, not because of our seeking, pursuit, or intelligence, but because of His great mercy toward us. God has sovereignly created us in His image and according to His likeness for us to be His vessels, His containers, so that we may contain Him according […]

As God-shaped Containers we’re Open Vessels Emptying ourselves to be Filled with God

The basic teaching of the whole Scripture is that God is the content and we are made as vessels, containers (even God-shaped containers!), to receive God, be filled with God, and be vessels unto honor; not being filled with God is vanity of vanities, making us a senseless contradiction. On one hand, we need to […]

Being Open Vessels to the Lord and Closing our Vessel toward Death and Defilement

Defilement is unavoidable, but we can learn to close our vessel toward death and defilement, and we can open our vessel toward the Lord! The redemption that Christ has accomplished on the cross is eternally effective and always available for us to apply; whenever we become unclean, we can contact the Lord by the exercise […]

Being Open Vessels for God to do Everything in us and Through us for the Body

In order for us to live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ, we need to be open vessels to the Lord; we need to open our entire being to the Lord absolutely so that the law of the Spirit of Life would operate in us and cause us to live God and […]