When you read the story of Abraham, how God called him and promised him a seed which fulfills God’s purpose, you may be “happy for Abraham” but may wonder what does this have to do with you. Abraham was a Hebrew, a Jew, someone called out by God and chosen by Him to be part […]
Experiencing God at Shechem (knowing God), Bethel (house of God), and Hebron (fellowship)
God appeared to Abraham and called him out of his land and out of his house to a land that He would give to him and to his seed after him. If we read the record in the book of Genesis, we see that Abraham sojourned in the land of Canaan, having God’s appearing and […]
God’s Appearing Issues in our Consecration: our Life is for God and God is our Life
Abraham was a man just like us, not necessarily seeking God or being for God, until God appeared to him. When God appeared to Abraham, something changed in him: he left his homeland and his family, and he followed God’s instructions to go into the land of Canaan living a life of the altar and […]
Walking in the Steps of Abraham’s Faith by Having God’s Appearing Again and Again
As believers in Christ, we have Abraham as our spiritual father, and we need to walk in the steps of his faith. If we would walk in the steps of Abraham’s faith, we need to be those who live the life of the altar and the tent, taking Christ as our life and the church […]
Knowing and Experiencing God as the God of Abraham: God is our Father, our Source!
The God who chose us, called us, redeemed us, saved us, justified us, and who daily renews us, transforms us, and will eventually glorify us is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He called us to be a particular kind of people, His peculiar possession, His personal treasure, […]
The Testimony of Jesus is the Victorious Ones Standing on the Glassy Sea in Rev. 15
How wonderful it is to see the many aspects of the church as the testimony of Jesus in the book of Revelation! As the concluding book of the Bible, Revelation presents to us the consummation of all the divine truths, including the matter of the church. In the first three chapters of Revelation we see […]
Being in Spirit to See the Vision of the Glorious Christ (even During Tribulation)
The apostle John was exiled on the island of Patmos for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus (Rev. 1:2), and there he saw a vision of the glorious Christ. The Christ he saw was different from the Christ he knew while on earth. The Christ John saw was a glorious One, the […]