With the kisses of Your mouth,
Have You kissed me, Lord.
From Your kisses flows a fountain,
From a depth unknown.
Gently tempered by Your touching
Of my deepest chords,
My heart's renewed with gladness,
And my love o'erflows.
Let me kiss You, drink You deeper,
Fully satisfy
All the longings deep within me,
For Your presence nigh,
And a deeper, sweeter union,
Of Your life with mine
That our natures fully mingled,
Would our hearts entwine.
Ever increase, Lord, within me,
My desire for You.
Let Your kisses ever kiss me,
And that I'd kiss You.
Dear Lord Jesus, may I ever be,
So betrothed to You.
May I love You, always love You,
And respond to You.
May I love You, always love You,
And respond to You.
Source: http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/365#ixzz222He2rQd
Showing posts with label enjoyment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enjoyment. Show all posts
Sunday, July 29, 2012
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 24, 2012
Practice, and turning to the Spirit!
THE NEED OF PRACTICE
I have concluded that nothing works except the all-inclusive Christ as the life-giving Spirit. As long as I live by Him and take Him as my life, my person, and my everything, I have no need to overcome sin. He is the way. I do not need to seek holiness. Holiness is mine because Christ is mine. If the married sisters try to submit to their husbands, it will never work. The only thing that works is Christ as the life-giving Spirit. There is no need to retreat into your private room and pray. No, as you are about to do anything, stop and examine whether you are taking Christ as your life, whether you are living by Christ at that very moment and are taking Him as your person. You should say, “Lord, be one with me. I take You, Lord, as my life, my person, and my everything.” If you practice this, there will be a great difference in your daily living. You will have victory, holiness, and life.
TURNING TO THE SPIRIT
There is only one place where we can experience Christ— in our spirit. The mind, the emotion, and the will do not avail in this matter; only the spirit avails. We must constantly turn to our spirit. Some may ask how we can know whether or not we have turned to our spirit. Although it is difficult to say what the spirit is, you do know quite well what your mind, emotion, and will are. As long as you are not in the mind, emotion, and will, then you must be in the spirit. If you are a married brother and are about to talk with your wife, examine whether or not you are in the mind, emotion, or will. If you are in none of these places, then you must be in your spirit and you can freely converse with your wife. There are only four chambers of your being in which you can dwell: the chambers of the mind, emotion, will, and the inner chamber of the spirit. If you are in your spirit, then you may say to your wife, “Dear, I’m not in my mind, emotion, or will. Therefore, because I know that I’m in the spirit, I have the confidence to talk to you.” I’m certain that you could never attend a movie in your spirit. Try to lose your temper in your spirit. I doubt if you can do it. Whenever we get into our spirit, all the bugs and pests are exterminated. The most effective pesticide is our spirit, the unique place to experience Christ.
Young people, you need to experience Christ and to practice living by Christ. If you do a work among other young people without living by Christ, it will be a shame. To talk to people without taking Christ as your life is a disgrace. We all must learn to live by Christ. I do not care whether or not you are able to preach the gospel. I only care for one thing— whether or not you are living by Christ. As long as we live by Christ, our preaching of Christ will be prevailing. But if you attempt to carry on a work without taking Christ as your life, as your person, and as your everything, it will be a shame to the Lord’s recovery.
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
Monday, May 14, 2012
THE HEART AS THE LOVING ORGAN
Second Corinthians 3:16 says,
“Whenever their heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.” The heart
must first turn to the Lord. This is real repentance. When we were fallen, our
heart was turned away from the Lord, but when we repented, our heart turned to
the Lord. The turning of the heart to the Lord is not once and for all. The heart
must be turned to the Lord all the time, day by day. Every morning we must turn
our heart again toward the Lord. After raising, we should go to the Lord and
tell Him, “Lord, here I am. By Your mercy and grace I wish to turn my heart
anew to You for this day.”
When our heart is turned to
the Lord, the veil is gone. Many people wonder why they do not have the Lord’s
guidance and why they do not know the Lord’s will. But the problem is where is
their heart and in what direction is their heart turned? Their heart must be
turned and tuned to the Lord. When I was young, I prayed over 2 Corinthians
3:16 nearly every day: “Lord, cause me to turn my heart to You.” I must testify
that this kind of prayer works. I encourage you to try it. Before you read the
Word in the morning, you should first turn your heart to the Lord. If you do
this, the veil will be gone, and there will be light. The veil between you and
the Lord will be taken away by you turning your heart to Him and you will see
the light.
Once our heart is turned to
the Lord, it must next exercise faith. Romans 10:9-10 says, “Believe in your
heart” and “With the heart there is believing.” Hence, believing is not an
exercise of the spirit, the mind, or the will, but an exercise of the heart. We
need to learn how to exercise our heart to believe in order to cooperate with the
indwelling Spirit. After our heart is turned to the Lord, we should immediately
exercise faith in our heart. Whatever the Lord says in the Word, we must
exercise our heart to believe. Whatever we sense deep within, we must believe
by exercising our heart. We must believe in the Lord in the midst of our environment.
In all the situations within our set of circumstances, we must always exercise
our heart to believe the Lord. Exercise faith in the Lord will keep our heart
from doubt. We must even pray that the Lord will protect our heart from doubt.
Third, our heart must be
sprinkled from an evil conscience (Heb 10:22). The heart itself is not to be
sprinkled, but the evil conscience. Our conscience always needs the sprinkling
of the redeeming blood of the Lord Jesus. The more we turn our heart to the
Lord and the more we believe in the Lord by exercising our heart, the more we
will feel in our conscience that we are wrong in many matters. When our heart
is not turned to the Lord, we will never sense: that we are right in everything;
everyone else is wrong, but we ourselves are right. When we turn our heart to
the Lord we can see only ourselves: we cannot see others. The more we believe
in Him, the more we will sense how wrong we are in a great many things. We will
sense that we are wrong with our wife, with our husband, with our children,
with our parents, with our schoolmates. These accusations in our heart are the
accusations of our conscience. At such a time we will spontaneously confess
everything according to the inner accusation of our conscience. The more we
confess, the more the blood of the Lord Jesus will be applied to our conscience.
As a result, our conscience will be purged, cleansed, and without offense – a purified
conscience. To have our heart sprinkled from an evil conscience means that our
conscience has been so purged that there is no more condemnation in our heart. Our
heart is at peace and full of joy in the Lord.
Furthermore,
according to Ezekiel 36:26, the heart must be renewed. In Ezekiel 36:25 the
Lord said, “I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you will be clean; from
all your filthiness and from all your idols I will cleanse you.” But this is
not all. To cleanse us from all filthiness, from all sins, and even from idols
is only on the negative side. We need something positive. Therefore, the next
verse says, “I will also give you a new heart.” The new heart is the old heart renewed.
Thus, there are four steps in dealing with the heart. These steps
do not take place once and for all when we believe in the Lord Jesus and
receive Him as our Savior. We who are seeking the Lord must have our heart
refreshed by these four steps every day. We must turn our heart to the Lord,
exercise our heart to believe Him, have our heart sprinkled from an evil
conscience, and have it renewed again and again. The renewing of the heart is
not a once and for all matter. I believe that if he were living today, the
apostle Paul would still need to have his heart renewed. We need to put all
these steps into practice immediately. When we first rise up in the morning, we
should pray, “Lord, cause me to turn my heart to You.” Then we need to exercise
our heart to believe the Lord: “Lord, I believe You and Your Word. I believe in
Your dealing within me and in all Your dealings in my environment.” At this
point we will sense how wrong we are, how many mistakes we have made, and how
much filthiness we have. Therefore, we must confess in order to be cleansed and
sprinkled from an evil conscience. Then our heart will be renewed afresh.
These four steps will cause our heart to function adequately. The
function of the heart is to love the Lord, for the heart is the loving organ of
our being. This is proven by Mark 12:30: “You shall love the Lord your God from
your whole heart.” The heart was created for the purpose of loving the Lord. If
we do not have a heart, we cannot love. Just as we cannot see without eyes,
hear without ears, or think without a mind, we cannot love without a heart.
Many Christians do not know what the function of the heart is. They know the
function of the eyes, the ears, and the mind, but they simply do not know the
function of the heart.
Love is a matter of the heart. We cannot love people with our
nose, nor can we love them with our hands. Our heart is the only organ by which
we can exercise love. No one can say that he does not love anything. Everyone
loves something—either the Lord Himself or something else. The more we turn our
heart to the Lord, the more we will exercise our heart to believe the Lord, and
the more our heart will be sprinkled from an evil conscience and renewed. Then
it will have a greater capacity to love the Lord. This is the function of a
renewed heart. Every morning we must renew our heart so that we may love the
Lord more and more.
We all must learn how to continually turn and exercise our heart
in order to have our heart purged from an evil conscience and renewed again so
that we may love the Lord more and more. It was the loss of its first, fresh
love to the Lord that was the cause of the church’s fall and degradation (Rev.
2:4). When our heart is not fresh in loving the Lord, we have fallen. We must
turn our heart back to the Lord again and again and have it continually renewed
that we may have a new and fresh love toward the Lord.
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.
Monday, March 19, 2012
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.
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.
Friday, March 16, 2012
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!
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!
Monday, March 12, 2012
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!
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;
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!
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Song of songs
"My Beloved responds and says to me,
Rise up, my love,
My beauty, and come away;
For now the winter is past;
The rain is over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth;
The time of singing has come,
And the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
The fig tree has ripened its figs,
And the vines are in blossom-- they give forth their fragrance.
Rise up, my love,
My beauty, and come away."
Song of songs 2:10-13
Rise up, my love,
My beauty, and come away;
For now the winter is past;
The rain is over and gone.
Flowers appear on the earth;
The time of singing has come,
And the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
The fig tree has ripened its figs,
And the vines are in blossom-- they give forth their fragrance.
Rise up, my love,
My beauty, and come away."
Song of songs 2:10-13
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Hymn 841
Hymn 841
SUBJECT: THE CHURCH-HER BUILDING
METER: 6.5.6.5.D.
AUTHOR: Witness Lee
COMPOSER: Frances R. Havergal
1 Thou art all my life, Lord,
In me Thou dost live;
With Thee all God’s fulness
Thou to me dost give.
By Thy holy nature
I am sanctified,
By Thy resurrection,
Vict’ry is supplied.
2 Now Thy flowing life, Lord,
Doth enlighten me,
Bringing in the spirit
Fellowship with Thee;
All my need supplying,
Making Thy demand,
Leading me to cleansing
And in Thee to stand.
3 Thy anointing Spirit
Me shall permeate,
All my soul and spirit
Thou wouldst saturate;
Every part transforming
Till conformed to Thee,
Till Thy life shall bring me
To maturity.
4 Lord, Thy life abundant,
Flowing, rich and free,
Constantly refreshes
And empowers me.
Death by life is swallowed,
Weakness is made strong,
All my bonds are broken,
Gloom is turned to song.
5 I would give myself, Lord,
Fully unto Thee,
That Thy heart’s desire
Be fulfilled in me.
I no more would struggle
To myself reform,
Thus in me to hinder
What Thou wouldst perform.
6 I would cease completely
From my efforts vain,
Let Thy life transform me,
Full release to gain;
Build me up with others
Till in us Thou see
Thy complete expression
Glorifying Thee.
SUBJECT: THE CHURCH-HER BUILDING
METER: 6.5.6.5.D.
AUTHOR: Witness Lee
COMPOSER: Frances R. Havergal
1 Thou art all my life, Lord,
In me Thou dost live;
With Thee all God’s fulness
Thou to me dost give.
By Thy holy nature
I am sanctified,
By Thy resurrection,
Vict’ry is supplied.
2 Now Thy flowing life, Lord,
Doth enlighten me,
Bringing in the spirit
Fellowship with Thee;
All my need supplying,
Making Thy demand,
Leading me to cleansing
And in Thee to stand.
3 Thy anointing Spirit
Me shall permeate,
All my soul and spirit
Thou wouldst saturate;
Every part transforming
Till conformed to Thee,
Till Thy life shall bring me
To maturity.
4 Lord, Thy life abundant,
Flowing, rich and free,
Constantly refreshes
And empowers me.
Death by life is swallowed,
Weakness is made strong,
All my bonds are broken,
Gloom is turned to song.
5 I would give myself, Lord,
Fully unto Thee,
That Thy heart’s desire
Be fulfilled in me.
I no more would struggle
To myself reform,
Thus in me to hinder
What Thou wouldst perform.
6 I would cease completely
From my efforts vain,
Let Thy life transform me,
Full release to gain;
Build me up with others
Till in us Thou see
Thy complete expression
Glorifying Thee.
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