In Ezek. 37 God told the prophet to prophesy His word over the dead bones, and then the wind, the breath, and the Spirit came; we need to exercise to prophesy God’s word, breathe in the Lord, and allow God to breathe out His word and His Spirit for His purpose to be fulfilled. A […]
Prophesying by Speaking forth God’s Word to Fulfill His Desire and Build up the Church
In Ezekiel 37 we see not only our condition when we’re fallen or backslidden (“dry bones”) but also God’s solution: prophesying, that is, the need to prophesy by speaking for the Lord so that the Spirit would come in and enliven us! On the one hand, the many dry, disjointed, very dry, separated bones in […]
God’s Word causes Dry Bones to become Living, for the Lord is the Savior of the Dead
In Ezekiel 37 God gave the prophet a vision of a valley full of dry bones, which represented the house of Israel, and He told him to prophesy over them; the result was that the Spirit came in, breathed on them, enlivened them, and produced a great army. We may think that these dead, dry […]
God is Inwardly and Outwardly Recovering us to give us His Spirit and Renew us
Praise the Lord – our God is recovering us both inwardly and outwardly, so that He may give us His Spirit, breathe Himself into us, enliven us, and make us His corporate expression! Amen! This week in our morning revival we continue our Crystallization-Study of Ezekiel with an in-depth study of Ezekiel 37; the title […]
The Increase of Christ in us is for the Building up of the Body of Christ in Love
What the Lord is after today is not individual Christians who are spiritual and can express God – He desires to gain the Body of Christ, and the unique work Christ is doing is the building up of the Body for God to have a corporate expression in man. Christ Himself is the unique Head […]
We need to Grow Up into the Head, Christ, in All Things until We are All One in Him
As members of the Body of Christ, we need to hold Christ as the head, and we need to grow up into the Head, Christ, in all things; in all the things of our daily living and human existence, we need to grow up into Christ, the Head (Eph. 4:15). In thing after thing, matter […]
When we live in the Mingled Spirit we are in the Reality of the Body of Christ
The key to living in the reality of the Body of Christ is the mingled spirit; the Body of Christ is in the mingled spirit, and to live in the reality of the Body, we need to live in the mingled spirit. Actually, everything that God requires of us is fulfilled spontaneously in our living […]