Showing posts with label Ministry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ministry. Show all posts
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Following the Lord to enjoy grace!
To leave all things behind and follow the Lord is not to pay a price; it is to enjoy the grace we have received. Do not think that you have sacrificed anything. What you sacrifice is just dung; it is vanity of vanities. Everything under the sun is vanity. Your education, position, and future are all vanity. Dung cannot be considered a price. To leave all things behind is to be unloaded and released. You have been under the heavy load of your position, wealth, and concern for your future. Thus, you need to be unloaded, and the way to be unloaded is to enjoy grace. Grace unloads us. To be unloaded through the enjoyment of grace, however, is not to pay a price. We are not here paying a price. Rather, we are enjoying liberation. Hallelujah, I have been liberated! I have been liberated from my relatives, fame, position, future, and everything; I am completely free. I am not paying a price—I am enjoying grace.
We all need to give up the commercial mentality. Some saints have said, “I have left everything for the church. I have suffered very much, and now I have nothing.” Whenever I have heard this kind of complaint, deep within me I said, “You cannot receive anything, because your giving up of all things and your suffering have not been done in the proper spirit. If you were in the right spirit, you would be thankful, joyful, and praise the Lord that you are no longer burdened.” If we have given up all things for the Lord in a proper spirit, we would say, “O Lord, I thank You that I am not bearing the load of position, ambition, or concern for the future. All the worldlings are under a heavy load. But, Lord, I praise You that I have been unloaded and liberated. I am not paying a price—I am daily enjoying grace. Lord, whatever You give me is not a reimbursement, but a further enjoyment of Yourself.”
Excerpt from Life-study of Matthew, msg. 54, p. 646
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Enjoying Christ in the Church Life
In the early days I spent more time to enjoy Christ in my private life and less time to enjoy Him in the church life. Gradually, however, I have come to enjoy Him more in the church life than in my private life. There is no comparison between the enjoyment in the church life and the enjoyment in my private life. But this does not mean that I no longer enjoy Christ in my personal life. But the taste is not as sweet as the taste in the church life. I am always eager to attend a meeting to enjoy the top portion of Christ. How about you? Often in my private life I am tired and need to rest. When I work, I work with every fiber of my being. This tires me out. Thus, my private life is a time for me to rest my whole being—my spirit, my heart, my conscience, my soul, my mind, my emotion, my will, and every part of my physical body. After a time of rest, I am ready once again to attend the meeting for the choice enjoyment of Christ. This is the reason I am so rich in the enjoyment of Christ. Many are rather poor in the enjoyment of Christ because they spend too much time trying to enjoy Him privately and little time to enjoy Him corporately. I encourage you all to spend more time in the church life.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Ministry Excerpts -Young People's Training
THE CHURCH AS CHRIST’S COUNTERPART
The church is also Christ’s counterpart, His wife (Eph. 5:25-27, 32). The church as the counterpart of Christ implies satisfaction and rest in love. Every husband needs satisfaction and rest, which are found in love. The brothers who are husbands can testify that our satisfaction and rest can only be in our wives. If we say that we are the church, then we must ask if Christ has His rest among us. This is serious. Do not be so quick to claim that you are the church. To be the church is to render to Christ the adequate satisfaction and rest in love. Christ needs such a wife. The church is not merely a gathering of God’s called ones. It is a satisfaction and rest to Christ in love.
THE CHURCH AS THE TEMPLE
To God the Spirit, the church is the temple. First Corinthians 3:16 says, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” The believers as a corporate unit in a certain locality are the temple indwelt by the Spirit of God. Hence, to God the Spirit we are the temple filled with Himself. It is not simply a matter of having the manifestations of certain gifts, such as healing and speaking in tongues. It is a matter of having the corporate indwelling of the Holy Spirit. This is the reality of the church life.THE CHURCH AS THE ARMY
To the enemy, Satan, the church is an army (Eph. 6:11-13). Being the army is not an individualistic matter. At most, you and I can only be soldiers. But all the soldiers must be formed and constituted into an army. Whenever we are detached from the army, we are in a very dangerous situation. We must have the protection of being in the army. Because many Christians today are not in the army, they are constantly under the attack of the enemy. The church is absolutely a corporate entity. All the aspects of the church we have covered—sonship, family, Body, counterpart, temple, and army—are corporate entities.THE CHURCH AS THE NEW MAN
In addition to all these aspects, the church is also the new man (Eph. 2:15-16). The church as the new man is for our living. Hallelujah, on earth there is such a new man living here! To the Father, the church is the sonship and the family; to the Son, the church is the Body and the counterpart; to the Spirit, the church is the temple; to Satan, the church is the army; and for our living the church is the new man. Praise the Lord that we are the new man! Individualistically we are not the new man. God has one corporate new man—the church.After seeing all these aspects of the church, can we still be individualistic? I can testify that after I saw all this, my individualism was killed. I have seen that the church is absolutely a corporate entity. With respect to the Father, to the Son, to the Spirit, to the enemy, and for our living, the church is a corporate entity. Hallelujah, the church is the sonship, the family, the Body, the counterpart, the temple, the army, and the one new man!
Thursday, May 17, 2012
THE TRIUNE GOD SPREADING WITHIN MAN
God’s economy is to dispense Himself into our spirit as His abode and to take His residence in our spirit as a base to spread Himself through our whole being. Our spirit is God’s home, His dwelling place, His habitation, the very place from which He spreads Himself through our whole being (Eph. 2:22). By spreading Himself within us, He saturates every part of our being with Himself. First, He thoroughly mingles Himself with our spirit, then with our soul, and finally with our body. He comes into our spirit to begin the mingling by regenerating our spirit. Regeneration is the mingling of God Himself with our spirit. After our regeneration, if we cooperate with Him, offering ourselves to Him and giving Him the opportunity, He will spread Himself from our spirit into our soul to renew all the parts of our soul. This is His transforming work (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18). Through transformation the very essence of the Triune God is mingled with our soul, our very self. When our soul is transformed into the image of the Lord, our thoughts, our desires, and our decisions will always express the Lord.
God’s first step, therefore, is to regenerate our spirit; His second step is to transform our soul; and finally, His last step is to transfigure, or change, our body at the second coming of the Lord (Phil. 3:21; 1 Cor. 15:51-53). The Lord will then permeate our body, and His glory will saturate our whole being. This transfiguration is the ultimate consummation of His mingling with our being to the uttermost. At that time God’s economy of dispensing Himself into us will be fully accomplished. We need to remember these three steps by which God mingles Himself with us in every way. The following hymn expresses the final consummation.
Christ is the hope of glory, my very life is He,
He has regenerated and saturated me;
He comes to change my body by His subduing might
Like to His glorious body in glory bright!
He comes, He comes, Christ comes to glorify me!
My body He’ll transfigure, like His own it then will be.
He comes, He comes, redemption to apply!
As Hope of glory He will come, His saints to glorify.
Christ is the hope of glory, He is God’s mystery;
He shares with me God’s fulness and brings God into me.
He comes to make me blended with God in every way,
That I may share His glory with Him for aye.
Christ is the hope of glory, redemption full is He:
Redemption to my body, from death to set it free,
He comes to make my body a glorious one to be
And swallow death forever in victory.
Christ is the hope of glory, He is my history:
His life is my experience, for He is one with me;
He comes to bring me into His glorious liberty,
That one with Him completely I’ll ever be.
Hymns, #949
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Spirit is the Mutual Abode
John 14:23 says that the Father and the Lord will come to make Their abode with us. What does this mean? Have you ever experienced the Father and the Son coming to make Their abode with you? This is the mark of God's economy that we are considering. This abode has two aspects -- the Father and the Son become our abode, and we become Their abode. Thus, it is a mutual abode. How is the mutual abode possible? Only as we are in the Spirit, just as the Father and the Son are in the Spirit, can we experience this mutual abiding. When we are in the Spirit, we are abiding in the Son and the Father, and at the same time They are abiding in us. Only then will we have an intimate communion and fellowship with the Father and the Son. We will have an inward "talking." We will talk with the Lord, and the Lord will talk with us. These are the practical experiences of the mutual abode.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
The Valleys and the Mountains
2 Corinthians 6:8-10 "Through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers and yet true; As unknown and yet well known; as dying and yet behold we live; as being disciplined and yet not being put to death; As made sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things."
If you can experience Christ in times of trouble and trial, how much you will have flowing out to others! It is not in peaceful times or happy days that you can do this. It is in the days of sorrow, the days of sickness, the days of trouble. It is by your experience of Christ in these times that you may have the living flow to water others. Each situation of death may bring forth a greater outflow of refreshing water. Not only the mountains but also the valleys; not only the valleys but also the mountains. We need many experiences of the Lord's death and many experiences of the Lord's resurrection; then we will be full of the springs, the fountains, and the streams.
These are indeed sweet verses. It is a good land, a land of water brooks, of springs and of deep waters, flowing forth in the valley's and the mountains. And it is by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true, as unknown and yet well known, as dying and yet we live, as sorrowful and yet always rejoicing, as poor and yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things. Try to experience Christ and apply Christ when you are in all kinds of suffering; then you will have something which not only refreshes yourself, but also flows forth to water others. This is but a part of the unsearchable riches of Christ; this is just one item of the riches of the good land. The land is good in the riches of water: in brooks, in springs, and in deep waters, flowing forth in valleys and mountains.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Happy Tears
Psalms 84:6-7 "Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a spring; indeed the early rain covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength; each appears before God in Zion."
Psalms 84:6a speaks of passing through the valley of Baca.... "Baca" means "weeping." On the one hand, when we had the intention to come into the church life, we were strengthened in God; on the other hand, we were opposed by Satan, who has caused many saints to suffer persecution. The trouble and persecution caused by Satan can make our highway a valley of weeping.
When we pass through the valley of Baca, God makes this valley a spring. If we take the highway to go to God's house; trouble and persecution will come to us, and such things will cause us to weep. But God will turn our tears into a spring. Only those who weep will have a spring. THE MORE TEARS WE SHED, THE GREATER WILL BE THE SPRING!
Psalms 84:6c says, "Indeed the early rain covers it with blessing." According to our experience, this means that our tears become a spring and that this spring becomes the early rain that covers the valley with blessings. This early rain is the Spirit, and the Spirit is our blessing.... Those who come into the church life by passing through the valley of weeping will find that this weeping eventually becomes a great blessing to them. This blessing is the Spirit. The tears they shed are their own, but these tears become a spring, which becomes the early rain, the Spirit as the blessing.
Whether the valley of weeping is a place of blessing or not depends wholly on us, not on God. If you take the church way, at a certain point you will encounter many trials and troubles. If you turn away, you will find yourself in a real valley of weeping. But if you are faithful at any cost, if you say, "Lord, even at the cost of my life, I will still go on," you will make the valley of weeping a spring... I have seen many who, in spite of all the trials, have still gone on in the church. I can testify that their weeping was transformed into blessing. The tears were transformed into springs, into rain which covered the valley with blessings... Be careful; it all depends upon you. It is not God's responsibility. It is yours. It is not God who makes the valley of weeping a place of blessing; it is you.
My prayer: "Lord cause me to be one who weeps! Lord I want Your blessing. I want my tears to become a spring, to become the early rain that covers the valley with blessings, the early rain that becomes the Spirit as the blessing! Lord even at the cost of my life, I will go on with You! Lord, I give You my life, my possessions, and my future! Lord do with them what You will, nothing else matters to me but You! I just love You Lord!
(Christ and the church revealed and typified in the psalms, pp155-156)
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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.
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.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
An evening prayer
If I have wounded any soul today,
If I have caused one foot to go astray,
If I have walked in my own willful way,
Dear Lord, forgive, Dear Lord, forgive.
If I have uttered idle words or vain,
If I have turned aside from want or pain,
Lest I myself shall suffer thru the strain,
Dear Lord, forgive, Dear Lord, forgive.
If I have been perverse or hard or cold,
If I have longed for shelter in Thy fold,
When Thou hast given me some fort to hold,
Dear Lord, forgive, Dear Lord, forgive.
Forgive the sins I have confessed to Thee,
Forgive the secret sins I do not see.
Oh guide, me love, and my keeper be.
Dear Lord, Amen, Dear Lord, Amen.
If I have caused one foot to go astray,
If I have walked in my own willful way,
Dear Lord, forgive, Dear Lord, forgive.
If I have uttered idle words or vain,
If I have turned aside from want or pain,
Lest I myself shall suffer thru the strain,
Dear Lord, forgive, Dear Lord, forgive.
If I have been perverse or hard or cold,
If I have longed for shelter in Thy fold,
When Thou hast given me some fort to hold,
Dear Lord, forgive, Dear Lord, forgive.
Forgive the sins I have confessed to Thee,
Forgive the secret sins I do not see.
Oh guide, me love, and my keeper be.
Dear Lord, Amen, Dear Lord, Amen.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Enjoyment from 1 Timothy
Favored with the Lord's Grace
Verse 14 (1 Tim. 1:14) continues, "and the grace of our Lord superabounded with faith and love in Christ Jesus." The Lord's grace, following God's mercy; visited Saul of Tarsus and not only abounded, but superabounded in him with faith and love in Christ. Faith and love are the product if the Lord's grace. Mercy and grace come to us from the Lord; faith and love return to the Lord and us. Faith is for us to receive the Lord, (John 1:12), and the love is for us to enjoy the Lord whom we have received (John 14:21, 23; 21:15-17).
Saved by Christ Jesus
In verse 15 Paul declares, "Faithful is the word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost." Christ came into the world to be our Savior by incarnation (John 1:14). He was God incarnated that He may save us through His death and human body. This should be constantly announced as the gospel, the glad tidings, in a local church.
Believing on Christ unto Eternal Life
In verse 16 Paul speaks of believing of Christ into eternal life. The uncreated life of God is the ultimate gift and topmost blessing given by God to those who believe on Christ.
Verse 14 (1 Tim. 1:14) continues, "and the grace of our Lord superabounded with faith and love in Christ Jesus." The Lord's grace, following God's mercy; visited Saul of Tarsus and not only abounded, but superabounded in him with faith and love in Christ. Faith and love are the product if the Lord's grace. Mercy and grace come to us from the Lord; faith and love return to the Lord and us. Faith is for us to receive the Lord, (John 1:12), and the love is for us to enjoy the Lord whom we have received (John 14:21, 23; 21:15-17).
Saved by Christ Jesus
In verse 15 Paul declares, "Faithful is the word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost." Christ came into the world to be our Savior by incarnation (John 1:14). He was God incarnated that He may save us through His death and human body. This should be constantly announced as the gospel, the glad tidings, in a local church.
Believing on Christ unto Eternal Life
In verse 16 Paul speaks of believing of Christ into eternal life. The uncreated life of God is the ultimate gift and topmost blessing given by God to those who believe on Christ.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
My Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Conference, and Parents coming to visit!
I had a Great Thanksgiving! With one week off work I was able to enjoy... but not relax. :) My body thought I had to work, so I believe I got about 3 hours of sleep a night. But the Lord is being my supply in my sufferings :). I'm so happy to be able to pursue after the Lord as my comfort in these times. Along with being super stressed out about my life situation in moving in Feb. and starting back up in school to study to become first a CNA then a RN, in the new year. I'm going through alot of foreign things to me right now, and am only handling them through the Lord's grace and mercy. I'm daily loving the Lord as my first love, and taking Him as my supply. I am praying that the Lord show's me what His goal and purpose is in all of this. For it is His perfect will that will be carried out and accomplished no matter what my life brings my way, But His supply that will get me through EVERYTHING!!
My parents are coming to visit for three weeks. They arrive tomorrow.... Having mixed emotions. I'm super excited to have them here, but this will be the first time both my parents will be staying as my guests, and me not being theirs. They will also be here three weeks, then I will be in California with them for three more. Talk about after not really getting to have my parents around for 2 years, I get a major overdose of time with them. Which I'm looking forward to, but also a little bit worried.... that i might just go insane ;). I think we all love our parents, but as an adult... you know what? I'm going to be gaining major amounts of Christ! That's something else to look forward to :D!
Last week was great! I was in Athens, GA... my "hometown" (haha. I call it home because it is the only place that REALLY feels like home!!). I spent Monday, Tuesday and Thursday there!! Wednesday I spent running all sorts of errands that i've been needing to get done for months. Friday was stay away from any store possible ;). No not really... My Thanksgiving with work was Friday. Saturday was spent with a best friend of mine, shopping, when we werent in one of the Thanksgiving Conf. meetings.
Monday I traveled with my friend Emily to "Tello Town" (my bestfriends house, yes we nicknamed it)... I had a lot of hair clients that day up there, so it was good that we were able. And I also just wanted to be with family during my vacation :) We ended up spending the night.
Tuesday, I spent the day with a dear Friend Mariela, and taught her children's home school classes while she got ready to go out of town for thanksgiving with her dear family. Later that evening was my Tello Town home meeting. Of which I was able to attend for the second time this semester. :D We had a enjoyable time. Had breakfast for dinner, sang love songs to the Lord, and also enjoyed a little reading material from the ministry. Later that night drove back to ATL
Wed. BORING ;) ATL BORING..... ;) JK... Chick-fil-a all the way!! Liz and I have a REALLY bad Chicky addiction. I love their "Chocolate Peppermint" Milkshakes, that are only here during the Christmas Holiday season :(...
Thursday, Thanksgiving, I ened up back in Athens with Lizzy and the Tello's, enjoying their family and all the AWESOMELY awesomeness of Yummy food! I also got to talk to my little sister Hannah (who is living in Romford, London, England), for over 2 hours :D! That was one of the MANY things that made my thanksgiving. My sister Naomi also called me :) I spent the wee hours of the morning in Target (with Lizzy and Kelsey, as their "body guard") for their opening of "Black Friday." and realized people will do anything they can to get what they want sometimes. Some people really are CRAZY!
Friday, I had a Thanksgiving dinner with my Bosses family, it was really enjoyable. Later in the evening Friday night the "International Thanksgiving Conference" broadcast started. So there were night and morning meetings broadcasted. I was lucky to have been able to make all of them. The conference was on "The Focus of the Lord's Recovery"
Here are the banners from this Conference:
The unique focus of the Lord's recovery is the testimony of the Triune God-The corporate expression of the Triune God, The testimony of Jesus.
... Romans 8 is the focus of the entire Bible and the center of the universe.
The focus of God's economy is the mingled spirit- the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit- a spirit that is both the Spirit of the Lord and our spirit.
We need to live in the focus of the Lord's recovery as inoculators and ministers of the new covenant.
Enjoyment:
Message One
III.B.1. The highest definition of the church is that the church is the fullness of God, the corporate expression of God. v.19b
2. In Ephesians 3:16-17a and 19b Paul prayed that the Triune God in Christ would make His home in our hearts so that our inner being would be filled unto the overflowing of the Triune God for the corporate expression of the Triune God; this is what God wants to recover today.
3. As the corporate expression of the Triune God, the church-the Body of Christ -- is a four-in-one organic entity--the Father, the Son, the Spirit, and the Body mingled together as one--4:4-6
Message 2
II.B. The Crucial focus of Ephesians is the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into the believers.
*Prayer for every morning:
II.B.3. In chapter 3 the apostle prays that God the Father would *grant us to be strengthened through God the Spirit into their inner man so that Christ, God the Son, may make His home in their hearts, that they may be filled unto all the fullness of God--vv.16-19
5.Chapter 5 exhorts the believers to praise the Lord, God the Son, with the songs of God the Spirit, and give thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, to God the Father.--vv.19-20
6.Chapter 6 instructs us to fight the spiritual warfare by being empowered in the Lord, God the Son, putting on the whole armor of God the Father, and wielding the sword of the Spirit--vv.10-11, 17.
C. In our daily living we need to receive, experience, and enjoy the divine dispensing in a normal, gradual, and steady way--Rom. 8:11; 2 Cor. 13:14
2.b. Our destiny is to live a normal life in the divine dispensing; it is a blessing to be satisfied with ordanary days in the divine dispensing.
Message 4
II. All our spiritual experiences, such as our fellowship with the Lord, our prayer to Him and our living with Him, are in this mingled spirit.--John 4:24; 15:4-5; Rom. 1:9; 8:4, 16; Eph. 1:17; 2:22; 4:23; 6:18; Phil. 2:1
A.1. Through the Spirit of life the eternal, only wise God, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden through the ages, dispenses Himself in His processed and consummated Spirit into the believers to be their consummated salvation as their life and everything--16:25; 8:11; 5:10
3."The Spirit... with our spirit" (v.16) is the most crucial secret in Romans for God to execute His dynamic salvation and for the believers to participate in it.
4. We need to know these two spirits in the divine enlightenment so that by the Spirit of life mingled with our regenerated spirit, we may enter into the intrinsic significance of the dynamic salvation of God in Christ, which is the Triune God processed and consummated to be our eternal inheritance for our enjoyment--vv. 2, 10, 16; 2 Cor. 13:14; Acts 26:18; Eph. 1:13-14
B.2. We must exercise the spirit of faith to believe and to speak the things that we have experienced of the Lord, especially His death and resurrection--4:13
3.It is by the mingled spirit as the spirit of faith that we the apostles lived a crucified life in resurrection for the carrying our of their ministry--3:8-9; 4:1, 10-12; 5:18
C.1. The Christian life is a life of abiding in the Lord as the true vine.--John 15:1, 4-5; 1 John 2:24, 27-28; cf.4:1
2. The mutual abiding in John 15:4-5 is the practice of being one spirit with the Lord.
D. Ultimately, the Bible requires only one thing of us --that we walk according to the mingled spirit--Rom 8:4
1. The key to experienceing and enjoying the processed and consummated Triune God through the divine dispensing is fround in the wonderful Spirit who is in our regneerated spirit and who has become one spirit with our spirit-- Phil.1:19; 1 Cor.15:45b: 6:17.
2.By living in the mingled spirit, we can experience Christ as everything to us--1:2, 9, 24, 30: 2:8, 10; 3:11; 5:7-8; 10:3-4; 11:3; 12:12; 15:20, 45B, 47
4.Whether or not we are under Satan's authority is not determined by the things we do but is determined by whether we are in the spirit or in the flesh; if we remain in teh mingled spirit, WE WILL BE KEPT FROM SATAN, and the evil one will have NO way to touch us--Gal 5:16-17; 1 John 5:4, 18-21.
Satan CAN NOT put his footsteps on the ground in the mingled spirit! My prayer to the Lord daliy is... "Oh Lord, cause us to turn to our mingled spirit, cause us to learn how to dwell constantly in the mingled spirit. Lord, we want to be those always found in our mingled spirit. Lord, we want to stay out of the enemies reach! Lord, cause us to be those who turn to our mingled spirit, moment by moment, day by day! Lord, we just LOVE you!"
My parents are coming to visit for three weeks. They arrive tomorrow.... Having mixed emotions. I'm super excited to have them here, but this will be the first time both my parents will be staying as my guests, and me not being theirs. They will also be here three weeks, then I will be in California with them for three more. Talk about after not really getting to have my parents around for 2 years, I get a major overdose of time with them. Which I'm looking forward to, but also a little bit worried.... that i might just go insane ;). I think we all love our parents, but as an adult... you know what? I'm going to be gaining major amounts of Christ! That's something else to look forward to :D!
Last week was great! I was in Athens, GA... my "hometown" (haha. I call it home because it is the only place that REALLY feels like home!!). I spent Monday, Tuesday and Thursday there!! Wednesday I spent running all sorts of errands that i've been needing to get done for months. Friday was stay away from any store possible ;). No not really... My Thanksgiving with work was Friday. Saturday was spent with a best friend of mine, shopping, when we werent in one of the Thanksgiving Conf. meetings.
Monday I traveled with my friend Emily to "Tello Town" (my bestfriends house, yes we nicknamed it)... I had a lot of hair clients that day up there, so it was good that we were able. And I also just wanted to be with family during my vacation :) We ended up spending the night.
Tuesday, I spent the day with a dear Friend Mariela, and taught her children's home school classes while she got ready to go out of town for thanksgiving with her dear family. Later that evening was my Tello Town home meeting. Of which I was able to attend for the second time this semester. :D We had a enjoyable time. Had breakfast for dinner, sang love songs to the Lord, and also enjoyed a little reading material from the ministry. Later that night drove back to ATL
Wed. BORING ;) ATL BORING..... ;) JK... Chick-fil-a all the way!! Liz and I have a REALLY bad Chicky addiction. I love their "Chocolate Peppermint" Milkshakes, that are only here during the Christmas Holiday season :(...
Thursday, Thanksgiving, I ened up back in Athens with Lizzy and the Tello's, enjoying their family and all the AWESOMELY awesomeness of Yummy food! I also got to talk to my little sister Hannah (who is living in Romford, London, England), for over 2 hours :D! That was one of the MANY things that made my thanksgiving. My sister Naomi also called me :) I spent the wee hours of the morning in Target (with Lizzy and Kelsey, as their "body guard") for their opening of "Black Friday." and realized people will do anything they can to get what they want sometimes. Some people really are CRAZY!
Friday, I had a Thanksgiving dinner with my Bosses family, it was really enjoyable. Later in the evening Friday night the "International Thanksgiving Conference" broadcast started. So there were night and morning meetings broadcasted. I was lucky to have been able to make all of them. The conference was on "The Focus of the Lord's Recovery"
Here are the banners from this Conference:
The unique focus of the Lord's recovery is the testimony of the Triune God-The corporate expression of the Triune God, The testimony of Jesus.
... Romans 8 is the focus of the entire Bible and the center of the universe.
The focus of God's economy is the mingled spirit- the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit- a spirit that is both the Spirit of the Lord and our spirit.
We need to live in the focus of the Lord's recovery as inoculators and ministers of the new covenant.
Enjoyment:
Message One
III.B.1. The highest definition of the church is that the church is the fullness of God, the corporate expression of God. v.19b
2. In Ephesians 3:16-17a and 19b Paul prayed that the Triune God in Christ would make His home in our hearts so that our inner being would be filled unto the overflowing of the Triune God for the corporate expression of the Triune God; this is what God wants to recover today.
3. As the corporate expression of the Triune God, the church-the Body of Christ -- is a four-in-one organic entity--the Father, the Son, the Spirit, and the Body mingled together as one--4:4-6
Message 2
II.B. The Crucial focus of Ephesians is the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into the believers.
*Prayer for every morning:
II.B.3. In chapter 3 the apostle prays that God the Father would *grant us to be strengthened through God the Spirit into their inner man so that Christ, God the Son, may make His home in their hearts, that they may be filled unto all the fullness of God--vv.16-19
5.Chapter 5 exhorts the believers to praise the Lord, God the Son, with the songs of God the Spirit, and give thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, to God the Father.--vv.19-20
6.Chapter 6 instructs us to fight the spiritual warfare by being empowered in the Lord, God the Son, putting on the whole armor of God the Father, and wielding the sword of the Spirit--vv.10-11, 17.
C. In our daily living we need to receive, experience, and enjoy the divine dispensing in a normal, gradual, and steady way--Rom. 8:11; 2 Cor. 13:14
2.b. Our destiny is to live a normal life in the divine dispensing; it is a blessing to be satisfied with ordanary days in the divine dispensing.
Message 4
II. All our spiritual experiences, such as our fellowship with the Lord, our prayer to Him and our living with Him, are in this mingled spirit.--John 4:24; 15:4-5; Rom. 1:9; 8:4, 16; Eph. 1:17; 2:22; 4:23; 6:18; Phil. 2:1
A.1. Through the Spirit of life the eternal, only wise God, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden through the ages, dispenses Himself in His processed and consummated Spirit into the believers to be their consummated salvation as their life and everything--16:25; 8:11; 5:10
3."The Spirit... with our spirit" (v.16) is the most crucial secret in Romans for God to execute His dynamic salvation and for the believers to participate in it.
4. We need to know these two spirits in the divine enlightenment so that by the Spirit of life mingled with our regenerated spirit, we may enter into the intrinsic significance of the dynamic salvation of God in Christ, which is the Triune God processed and consummated to be our eternal inheritance for our enjoyment--vv. 2, 10, 16; 2 Cor. 13:14; Acts 26:18; Eph. 1:13-14
B.2. We must exercise the spirit of faith to believe and to speak the things that we have experienced of the Lord, especially His death and resurrection--4:13
3.It is by the mingled spirit as the spirit of faith that we the apostles lived a crucified life in resurrection for the carrying our of their ministry--3:8-9; 4:1, 10-12; 5:18
C.1. The Christian life is a life of abiding in the Lord as the true vine.--John 15:1, 4-5; 1 John 2:24, 27-28; cf.4:1
2. The mutual abiding in John 15:4-5 is the practice of being one spirit with the Lord.
D. Ultimately, the Bible requires only one thing of us --that we walk according to the mingled spirit--Rom 8:4
1. The key to experienceing and enjoying the processed and consummated Triune God through the divine dispensing is fround in the wonderful Spirit who is in our regneerated spirit and who has become one spirit with our spirit-- Phil.1:19; 1 Cor.15:45b: 6:17.
2.By living in the mingled spirit, we can experience Christ as everything to us--1:2, 9, 24, 30: 2:8, 10; 3:11; 5:7-8; 10:3-4; 11:3; 12:12; 15:20, 45B, 47
4.Whether or not we are under Satan's authority is not determined by the things we do but is determined by whether we are in the spirit or in the flesh; if we remain in teh mingled spirit, WE WILL BE KEPT FROM SATAN, and the evil one will have NO way to touch us--Gal 5:16-17; 1 John 5:4, 18-21.
Satan CAN NOT put his footsteps on the ground in the mingled spirit! My prayer to the Lord daliy is... "Oh Lord, cause us to turn to our mingled spirit, cause us to learn how to dwell constantly in the mingled spirit. Lord, we want to be those always found in our mingled spirit. Lord, we want to stay out of the enemies reach! Lord, cause us to be those who turn to our mingled spirit, moment by moment, day by day! Lord, we just LOVE you!"
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Thought for the Day
I was thinking of Watchman Nee Books that I've read through out the years, and I was reminded of his autobiography. A older brother from Atlanta, whom I met while living in London gave me this book years ago, and I'm sorry to say I left it in Slovakia when I moved back to the states years ago. It was such a inspiring book. I wish I could get my hands on it so I could read it once again. My Parent's liked Him so much, they found it appropriate to name me after his wife Charity, whom he loved dearly. May I be so blessed to have a husband one day that loves the Lord as much as he did. Check it out!
Watchman Nee — A Seer of the Divine Revelation
Watchman Nee became a Christian in mainland China in 1920 at the age of seventeen and began writing in the same year. Throughout the nearly thirty years of his ministry, Watchman Nee was clearly manifested as a unique gift from the Lord to His Body for His move in this age. In 1952 he was imprisoned for his faith; he remained in prison until his death in 1972. His words remain an abundant source of spiritual revelation and supply to Christians throughout the world."Christ is the Son of God who died for the redemption of sinners and resurrected after three days. This is the greatest truth in the universe. I die because of my belief in Christ."
-Watchman NeeA Seer of the Divine Revelation in the Present Age
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