Lord I love You, with all my Heart

I love you Lord, with all my heart! 
Not with just a part, but with all of my heart!
I love you Lord, with all my heart! 
The Lord is making home in all my heart!

The Lord is making home in my heart!
The Lord is making home in my heart!
Lord I let You in, so You can begin to make, 
Your home in my heart! 

Enjoyment from MR

1 Corinthians 6:17 "But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit" 

Now we have not only the divine Spirit with our spirit but also the mingling of the divine Spirit with our spirit. Thus, the two spirits are one.... Praise the Lord that these two spirits have been mingled into one spirit! This is the reason that in the verses concerning our walk in the spirit, it is difficult for the translators to determine whether to render pneuma as "Spirit" or as "spirit." actually, to walk according to the Spirit means to walk according to both the divine Spirit and the human spirit, according to the two spirits mingled as one. The two spirits are mingled not in the heavens nor outside of us but within us. This is the focus of the divine economy. Whatever God intends to do or accomplish is related to this focus. If we would have certain basic spiritual experiences, we must have a clear understanding that the focus of God's economy is the mingled spirit, the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit. 

To be one spirit with the Lord means that we are blended with Him organically and mingled with Him in life. We urgently need more experience of this. We need to remain rooted in Christ and absorb all that He is into us. Then we and He, He and we, will be blended together in life organically to be one spirit. How profound! How wonderful! 

Our real status is that we are one spirit with God. We have been saved to such a high level. What God is, we are. 

Never did I dream before

Never did I dream before,
Such a place could e'er be found,
Where the tears of sorrow cease,
Songs of endless joy abound.
One who seldom ever sang,
Now delights his voice to raise;
Singing hymns with all the saints,
Echoing the ceaseless praise.
Day by day the world goes on,
Just as it has gone before.
Millions grasp and clutch at life,
Wond'ring if there could be more;
Such was I and would be, yet
Mercy found me out somehow;
With what gratefulness I say,
"I'm in God's own family now."
How delightful 'tis to know;
How subjective, real, and sweet
Is this inward joy of grace
We experience when we meet;
Life abundant Jesus gives
As my full reality;
Praise You, Lord, it's really true,
I'm in Your own family.
At the closing of this age,
Just before Your kingdom's dawn,
May You gain a people, Lord,
For Your dwelling place, Your home.
Since for me You gave Your all,
Everything I lay aside;
For Your church my all I'd give,
That You would be satisfied.

I Love my Master!

I love my Master, and I will not go out free.
For He has died for me, the highest price He has paid for me.
I love my Master, I will serve Him willingly. 
Remaining near, and close to Thee this my plee.

Chorus: 
I love You Master, from You I will never leave.
You are my liberty, and my joy complete.
I love my Master, and I will not go out free.
To Him I give my all, my life eternally! 

Oh Jesus, Master, to the door post now bring me.
Open my ears to head, Your voice and all You say to me.
Oh Jesus, Master, I will obey willingly.
To love and serve Him all my life, this my plee!

Spreading our Nourishment

I am deeply burdened by the fact that many who love the Lord Jesus and seek Him have been deceived and frustrated. We must find a way to share with them the spiritual riches the Lord has provided us. Many who truly love the Lord are starving. We must take up the burden to supply them with food. We all need to be good ministers of Christ, serving others with His riches. Let us first be nourished ourselves and then minister this nourishment to all the people of God.

We would emphasize that being nourished is for the growth in life. This is a matter of life and it differs from merely being taught, which is a matter of knowledge. To minister Christ to others requires that we ourselves first be nourished with the words of life concerning Christ. 

Southeast College Conference enjoyment #1

Message 3. The Living Water out of the Smitten Rock.
Focus: We drink Christ as the living water by calling and praying, and we flow out Christ through our speaking to the Lord and by the Lord for the building up of the churches God's dwelling place. 

I was really impressed by this point of speaking. 

If we are in our spirit the Spirit will guide our speaking. So we need to eat and drink the Lord constantly moment by moment for His spiritual nourishment. So that when you find yourself in a situation to speak to someone, the Lord will give you the right words to speak. In my experience, this is the only way. Because within the self there is always hesitation, doubt and fear. But within the spirit, the Spirit gives LIFE! "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life" John 6:63

Calling, Oh, Lord Jesus! 
How it makes our spirit strong.
We can really touch Him, 
And our gloom is turned to song! 
Don't listen to Satan with all his distractions. 
Turn to your spirit, 
Spring into action! 
Calling, Oh, Lord Jesus!
You'll enjoy Him all day long! 

Sweet Fragrance

II. As captives in Christ's trimphal procession, we manifest the savor of the knowledge of Him in every place-- 2 Cor. 2:14b "triumph in ³the Christ and manifests the ^4csavor of the ^dknowledge of Him through ⁵us in every place."

1. On the one hand, the apostles were captives; on the other hand, they were those bearing incense, the fragrance of Christ.
B. The transcendent power of Christ's resurrection in us enables us to endure the sufferings that others cannot bear and to live a life that others cannot live, thereby manifesting the fragrance of Christ-- 2 Cor. 1:9; 2:14-15; Phil. 3:10
"9 ¹Indeed we ourselves had the ²response of ^adeath in ourselves, that we should ^bnot base our ^cconfidence on ourselves but ^don ³God, who ^eraises the dead;

14 But ^athanks be to God, who always ¹leads ²us in ^btriumph in ³the Christ and manifests the ^4csavor of the ^dknowledge of Him through ⁵us in every place.

15 For we ¹are a ^afragrance of Christ to God in those who are being ^bsaved and in those who are ^cperishing:

Phil. 3:10 To ^1aknow Him and the ^2bpower of His resurrection and the ^3cfellowship of His sufferings, being ^4dconformed to His death,"

1. Through the power of His resurrection, Christ leads us in joyful triumph and manifests the savor of the knowledge of Him through us.

2. If in our daily living we are enjoying Christ, depend on Christ, fellowship with Christ, and are filled with Christ, others will sense the fragrance of Christ in us; this fragrance is Christ living Himself out from us--1:21a "21 For to me, to ^1alive is Christ and to die is ²gain."

C. The excellent knowledge of Christ is a fragrance, an aroma--3:8; 2 Cor. 2:14 "8 ¹But moreover I ²also count ^aall things to be loss on account of the ³excellency of the ^bknowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, ⁴on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as ⁵refuse that I may ^6cgain Christ"

1. We who have been brought into Christ's triumphal procession speak to others the excellent knowledge of Christ--v 14

2. As the Lord leads us in triumph, we speak to others about Christ, and what we say concerning Him is a sweet-smelling savor -- 4:5 ; 2:14-15 "5 ¹For we do not ^apreach ourselves but Christ Jesus as ^2bLord, and ourselves as your ^3cslaves for Jesus' sake."

a. Whenever we speak Christ, this speaking is the spreading of the fragrance of Christ-- Acts 8:4-5; 17:18 "4 Those therefore who were scattered went throughout the land ^1aannouncing the word as the gospel.

5 And ¹Philip ²went down to the city of ^aSamaria and proclaimed the Christ to them. 17:18 And some of the ¹Epicurean and ²Stoic philosophers also confronted him. And some said, What would this ³babbler wish to say? And others, He seems to be an announcer of foreign ⁴deities -- because he was ^aannouncing Jesus and the ^bresurrection as the gospel."

b. As we speak Christ to others, in our speaking, the fragrance of Christ ascends to God for His enjoyment--2 Cor. 2:15

D.The apostles were a frangrace of Christ to God because they were saturated and permeated by Christ and with Christ -- Eph. 3:17a; S.S. 3:6

1. When they spoke of Christ to others, the Christ with whom they were constituted spread Himself out from their being and became a sweet fragrance to God for His enjoyment -- 2 Cor. 4:5; 2:15

2. Whenever they went, God could manifest through them the fragrance of Christ -- vv 14-15

3. This should be our experience today; while we are speaking of Christ, He should come forth as a sweet fragrance--4:5

4. Bearing incense involves the divine dispensing--2:14b-16; 13:14:

a. Through the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, we can mature in life and triumph in our ministry--Eph. 4:13, 15-16; 2 Cor. 2:14

b. We should allow Christ to spread through us His sweet fragrance to God for His enjoyment--v.15

c. The spreading of incense takes place through the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into our being--Eph. 3:16-19

Prayer: Lord, I just love You! Lord, I just want to be one smelling of your sweet fragrance. Lord, make me one who eats of You daily moment by moment, so that I have the essence of Your fragrance radiating out of me. Lord, I want to became a sweet fragrance for Your enjoyment! Lord, I love You! Make me one who has the sweet fragrance radiating out, for Your enjoyment and for others to enjoy! Oh Lord Jesus, I just love You!

Fill all my hunger quench all my thirst! Hymn 811

I have probably posted this before, sorry for the repeat, but I REALLY love and enjoy this hymn

1 My heart is hungry, my spirit doth thirst;
  I come to Thee, Lord, to seek Thy supply;
  All that I need is none other but Thee,
  Thou canst my hunger and thirst satisfy.
Chorus  
  Feed me, Lord Jesus, give me to drink,
  Fill all my hunger, quench all my thirst;
  Flood me with joy, be the strength of my life,
  Fill all my hunger, quench all my thirst.
2 Thou art the food and the water of life,
  Thou canst revive me, my spirit upbear;
  I long to eat and to drink here of Thee,
  Thyself enjoy through my reading and prayer.
3 Thou art the Word with God’s fulness in Thee,
  Thou too the Spirit that GHod my life be;
  Thee in the Word I enjoy as my food,
  Thou as the Spirit art water to me.
4 Thou from the heavens as food camest down,
  Thou to be drink hast been smitten for me;
  Thou as the food, my exhaustless supply,
  Thou as the water, a stream unto me.
5 Thou in the Word art the Spirit and life,
  Thus by the Word I may feed upon Thee;
  Thou dost as Spirit in my spirit live,
  Thus I may drink in the spirit of Thee.
6 Now to enjoy Thee I come to Thy Word,
  On Thee to feed till my hunger is o’er.
  Now in my spirit I turn unto Thee,
  Of Thee to drink till I’m thirsty no more.
7 Feeding and drinking, Lord Jesus, of Thee,
  Feeding by reading, and drinking by prayer;
  Reading and praying, I eat and I drink,
  Praying and reading-Lord, Thou art my fare.
8 Here, O my Lord, may I feast upon Thee;
  Flood with Thy Spirit and fill by Thy Word;
  May, Lord, Thou be such a feast unto me
  As man hath never enjoyed nor e’er heard.

God's work being based upon our prayer

We know that God's work is based upon our prayer. How much God works depends on how much we pray. How strong God's work is depends on how strong our prayer is. How effective God's work is depends on how much spiritual element we have in our prayer. A certain servant of the Lord once said that the extent of our prayer determines the extent of God's work. 

We look to the Lord to work among us not only today but even more in the future. For this we must have much more prayer. Without sufficient and thorough prayer, we cannot expect God to work more. Therefore, we look to God to grant the saints the burden to pray. We look to God to press them to pray, even to the extent that they would not be able to eat or sleep until they pray. The Psalmist told us that a day in the courts of God is better than a thousand elsewhere (Psalms 84:10) "For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand; I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of the wicked." This means that spending time in prayer is a thousand times more effective than spending it in other matters. To spend a day in prayer is better than spending a thousand days in other matters. We look to God to grant us adequate prayer and also an adequate number of praying ones.