As those who serve the Lord in spirit and in the church, we need to be deeply impressed with the necessity of being able to minister life (see 1 John 5:11-16), that is, to have an outflow of life. What we need in the church life is not more great gifts, talented people, or greater […]
Giving Christ the Ground to Fill us with Life for us to Minister Life in our Service
As believers in Christ, we have not only the human life inherited from our parents but also the divine life which we received through regeneration; now we need to practice giving the Lord the ground to fill us with life so that we may minister His life in our service. The Lord Jesus came so […]
Divine Life is in our Mingled Spirit: we need to Release our Spirit to Minister life
As believers in Christ and children of God, we have the eternal life of God in our mingled spirit: now we can experience life and minister life to other members of the Body of Christ. The divine life we have received through regeneration is the processed and consummated Triune God in Christ as the Spirit […]
Our Service in the Church should Minister Life to Others to Supply them with Life
Our service for the building up of the church is a life-ministering service, a service that ministers life to the saints. We have seen that we need to serve God by knowing the age, by realizing the way Christ fulfills His economy, by seeing the world situation as the indicator of the Lord’s move, and […]
Being Joined to God’s desire through His Word to Pray Prayers of God’s Economy
The best cooperation and service we can render to God is in prayer; we need to be joined to God’s desire and pray prayers initiated by God to echo what He is praying in the heavens. There are a few verses in the New Testament where there Lord is seemingly giving us the key to getting all […]
God needs Man to Exercise his Spirit and his Will to Pray according to God’s Will
Our service to God as priests is by prayer, and this prayer needs to be according to His heart and will; to have such a prayer, we need to allow the Spirit to mingle our desires with His desires, lead our thoughts into His thoughts, and imprint His desires and thoughts into us so that […]
The Basis of Genuine Service is Knowing the Cross to Allow the Divine Fire to Burn in us
So many people today “serve God” but without the divine fire and without knowing the cross; some serve God as a proffession, others serve Him from time to time, while even others serve Him as a duty, outwardly. But the service that God desires to receive from us is simply our placing ourselves on the […]