God’s desire is not only that He would save man from eternal perdition, but that man would be filled with Christ and even become Christ to express God in full. For this, God regenerates us with His life when we repent and believe into the Lord Jesus. Then, He grows in us and expands in […]
Being Full of the Stature of Christ for the Building up of the Body of Christ
God’s desire is not only to save as many people as possible but that His people would grow in life unto maturity to arrive at a full-grown man. This means that as we grow in number in the local churches, there’s a parallel great and urgent need for all the saints to grow in the […]
Receive the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit by Means of All Prayer
In exhorting us to take up the whole armor of God in Eph. 6, Paul puts the offensive weapon, the sword of the Spirit, at the very end. First, he encourages us to be girded with the truth (living Christ as the reality), put on the breastplate of righteousness (apply the blood of Christ to […]
Take up the Shield of Faith: Exercise your Spirit of Faith and Have Faith in God!
Besides girding our loins with truth, taking Christ as our righteousness to cover our conscience, and standing in peace as our firm foundation, we need to take up the shield of faith, with which we are able to quench all the flaming darts of the evil one (see Eph. 6:16). Our spirit mingled with God’s […]
We Need to See God’s Will and Satan’s Strategy, and Actively Choose the Will of God
In this universe there’s a warfare going on, since there are three wills: the divine will (God’s will), the satanic will (Satan’s will), and the human will, and the satanic will is always opposite and against the divine will. In eternity past there used to be only one will: God’s will. But Lucifer, who was […]
The Goal of Reigning in Life: Living a Life of the Highest Virtues for the Body Life
God’s desire is that all the believers regenerated by His life would be the same as He is, reigning in life. We can reign in life, on the one hand, by receiving the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness (Rom. 5:17, 21), and, on the other hand, by allowing the divine life […]
Reigning in Life by Being Ruled in the Sweetness of Love and by Enjoying God as Grace
Our destiny as believers in Christ is to reign with Christ for God over all things. Today we need to submit to God’s authority and His sovereign arrangement in our circumstances and environment so that we may reign in life through Christ. The reigning in life the Bible talks about has nothing to do with […]