When God comes to call us, first we see who we are (thornbush, men of flesh under God’s curse – yet with the divine fire burning in us and not consuming us) and then we see who God is. The God who calls us is the great I am, the ever-existing and self-existing God, the […]
The God who Called us is the Great I AM and He is the God of our Fathers!
The first aspect of God’s calling is that we need to see the vision of the burning thornbush, and the second aspect is seeing who God is and what God is. The God who calls us is the great I AM – He was, He is, and He will be. God is ever-existing, self-existing, and […]
Seeing the Church as a Corporate Thornbush Burning with the God of Resurrection
The vision of the burning thornbush impressed Moses and stayed with him throughout his life, so that at the end of his life as he was speaking his departing words and he was blessing the children of Israel he said, ….With the choicest things of the earth, and the fullness thereof, and the favor of […]
The Vision of the Burning Thornbush: the Excluding Flame Became the Indwelling Fire
Our enjoyment of Christ, our experience of life, and our growth in life is for the ministry of life. We need to experience Christ, enjoy Him, and grow in life, so that we may be qualified to minister life to others. God’s economy is that we enjoy God as life, grow in life, experience Christ […]
Having a Meek, Quiet, and Lowly Spirit for God to be Pleased to Dwell with us
We have seen that we need to cooperate with the Lord to deal with our spirit, that is, to deal with the passages of our spirit. Also, we have seen that, according to the Bible, we need to be poor in spirit and pure in heart, and we need to have a steadfast spirit, a […]
We need to Have a Steadfast Spirit, a Willing Spirit, and a Repenting Spirit
After receiving the Lord Jesus into our heart as our Lord and Savior at the time of our regeneration, we believers became different. We are no longer merely men, we are God-men, Christ-men, and Spirit-men. Now we have the Triune God living in us, in our spirit, and in everything we learn to turn to […]
Being Poor in Spirit and Pure in Heart to be Useful in Building up the Body
In order for us as Christians to be useful to the Lord for the building up of the church, the Body of Christ, we need to have a proper spirit. This means that our spirit needs to be right and proper; not only the things we do and the way we do things must be […]