Don’t be Disappointed when you Fail: God is Faithful to Mature us to be the New Jerusalem

If we fail God today, we should not be disappointed, for God is faithful to do it in us; He has a way to deal with us and cause us to be mature and become the New Jerusalem, either as His overcoming bride in the next age or as His wife for eternity. This week […]

God is Faithful in His Purpose to Turn us from Idols to Himself to Drink and Enjoy Him

Although we are unfaithful, God is faithful in His purpose; we need to see God’s faithfulness in fulfilling His economy and realize that He is faithful to remove our idols and bring us back to Himself as the fountain of living waters. The books of Jeremiah and Lamentations show us both how we are unfaithful […]

God is Faithful and Loving: He’s Faithful in His Word and He Loves and Disciplines us

Our God – the God manifested in the Bible and especially in Deuteronomy – is a righteous, holy, faithful, loving, and gracious God, and He is also very fine, tender, considerate, and sympathetic; what a God we have! If we read this wonderful book, Deuteronomy, we see that our God is both a God of […]

Learning to Shepherd others according to God’s Desire out of Love for the Lord Jesus

This week in our prayerful consideration of propagating Christ we come to the matter of, Shepherding the Flock of God according to God by Being Patterns of the Flock, and today in particular we want to see what it means to shepherd according to God’s desire. The Christ we propagate is not only the incarnated […]

The Church Life is Fellowship, and it is the Continuation of the Divine Glorification

The church life as seen in God’s word is so wonderful, and in a practical way, the church life is fellowship – it is the mutual flowing of the divine life in the Body of Christ. The reality of the church life is fellowship; if we want to see whether we’re in the church life […]

Having the Spiritual Reality of the Rainbow Manifested in the Church Life Today

This week we have been prayerfully considering the spiritual meaning and application of the rainbow around God’s throne, and our realization is that the spiritual reality of the rainbow needs to be wrought into us so that we will have the appearance of a rainbow, bearing God’s testimony. God’s testimony is multi-colored: His divine attributes […]

The Experience of the Christian life and of the Church Life Consummates in a Rainbow

The experience of the Christian life and of the church life consummates in a rainbow, and this is seen in type in Ezekiel 1 which starts with open heavens, continues with the experience of the wind, cloud, fire, and electrum, and consummates with the rainbow around the throne on which a Man sits. This matter […]