Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the pattern of the apostle in learning to travail in birth over their spiritual children until Christ is formed in them (Gal. 4:19). Paul told the Galatian believers that he was again travailing on their behalf. Travail refers to painful labor in childbirth. In this […]
Let us pray for the saints to consider their spiritual children as their hope, joy, crown, and glory
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the apostle’s pattern in considering the ones saved and nurtured by them as their hope, their joy, their crown of boasting, and their glory (1 Thes. 2:19-20 and note 20-1; Phil. 4:1). Here Paul seems to be saying, “You are our hope, our joy, and […]
Ministers of Life are Begetters, Feeders, and Builders for the Building of the Church
If we truly and genuinely drink the flow of living water and are in the flow of the river of water of life, we are ministers of life as sowers, planters, waterers, begetters, feeders, and builders with the ministry of life for God’s building. Our enjoyment of Christ as the flow of life is for […]