Deal with our Heart to have a Soft Heart and a Pure Heart for the Lord to Grow in us

 For us to grow in life for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ, we need to cooperate with the Lord by dealing with our heart so that it can be soft (a soft heart) and pure (a pure heart) in our Christian life. May the Lord have mercy on […]

Being Freed from Everything that Usurps God in us for Christ to Increase in our Being

In order for us as believers in Christ to have the increase of Christ, we need to let Christ grow in us and be freed from anything that usurps the place of God; for Christ to increase in us involves the removal of any idols or things that usurp God and the adding of the element […]

We Become God’s Fellow Workers by Growing in Life and by Being Transformed

All the believers in Christ have the privilege to be God’s fellow workers, those who work the work of the Lord (see 1 Cor. 16:10) and even abound in the work of the Lord (1 Cor. 15:58). The way to do this is not by seeing the need to do something for God and going […]

begetting through the gospel, feeding others with spiritual food, and building with precious materials

For us to build with gold, silver, and precious stones, we need to be constituted with the divine nature of the Father as gold, the redemptive work of Christ as the silver, and the transforming work of the Spirit as the precious stones. We as builders need to become these precious materials in order to build others with them and help them also become precious materials. We need to be transformed to be precious materials by being daily constituted with the Triune God, and we will be built into the house of God. Then we will be qualified to build the house of God with other believers as the transformed materials… [continue reading online]