By the Lord’s Speaking to us we’re Prepared to be His Bride Desiring His Coming

By the Lord’s speaking to us we are prepared to be His glorious bride with the desire for His second coming, for we listen to His voice, maintain our fellowship with Him, and pray that the Lord as our Beloved, would come back, even hasten His coming back, being one with John to say, Come, Lord Jesus! Amen, come, dear Lord Jesus!

We believers in Christ are becoming the beautiful and glorious bride of Christ if we are diligent to remain in the process of dispositional sanctification to be beautified daily.

The Lord has done everything, He is doing everything, and He will do everything; we just need to love Him and cooperate with Him. As our Redeemer, He gave Himself up for the church to obtain the church.

Today as the life-giving Spirit, Christ is sanctifying the church by His living word to beautify and cleanse her. And in the future, He will be the Bridegroom presenting the church to Himself, glorious, without spot or wrinkle. Hallelujah!

As the bride of Christ, we are being beautified by having Christ wrought into us so that He may shine out from within us and be expressed through us.

Today in the church life in the Lord’s recovery God has a primary work, which is His genuine work, the work of preparing us to be His glorious bride. How does He do it?

It is by means of the dispositional sanctification, that is, by Him as the life-giving Spirit flowing into us by means of His word so that He may sanctify us and transform us.

Christ today speaks to us as the life-giving Spirit in His word, and if we open to Him and come to Him with an unveiled face, we will be washed by the water in the word.

There’s a washing going on when we turn our heart to the Lord and come to Him in the word: the Lord speaks to us His living word, and we are washed, cleansed, and sanctified, even beautified to be His glorious bride.

Eventually, we are becoming His glorious church, the beautiful and glorious bride of Christ, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing. The bride is clothed in fine linen, bright and clean, which is the righteousnesses of the saints.

By means of the washing of the water in the Word of God, we are cleansed, washed, and sanctified, and Christ is adding His element to our being.

The result is that we become a spotless, blameless, and glorious bride of Christ. Wow, God is bringing the church to the place where nothing can be said against her in any respect! Praise the Lord!

By the Lord’s Speaking to us we’re Prepared to be His Bride desiring His Coming

Both Ephesians 5:26-27 and Song of Songs 8:13-14 show us that it is by the Lord’s speaking to us that we are prepared to be His glorious bride with a fervent desire for His coming. Amen!

In Song of Songs 8 the loving seeker tells the Lord, her beloved, that she wants to hear his voice, and she yearns for him to come quickly.

The lover of her Beloved asks Him, who dwells in the believers as His gardens, to let her hear His voice, even as her companions listen to His voice.

On the one hand, she works for the Lord, but as she works for Him and lives before Him, she listens to His speaking. We love the Lord, we labour for Him, we live before Him, and as we do this, we want to hear the Lord’s speaking to us, for this speaking prepares us to be His bride.

The Lord dwells in the gardens; He dwells not just in our garden but in many gardens, in the seeking ones.

On the one hand, we may be those who love the Lord and pursue Him, even fervently desire His coming, and the Lord dwells in our garden (Song of Songs 6:2).

On the other hand, the Lord dwells in many other gardens as well. Our Lord, our Beloved, dwells in the hearts of men.

He dwells not only in the hearts of those who follow Him absolutely but also in the hearts of all in whom He delights.

We are all learning to listen to the Lord’s speaking. We and our companions, we all learn to listen to the Lord’s speaking.

As those who love the Lord, seek Him for satisfaction, and pursue Him in love, we adopt the attitude of listening to the Lord and yearning for His speaking.

This is what we see in Ephesians 5:25-27; we love the Lord as our Bridegroom, and we come to Him to hear His voice and be washed by the water in the Word.

This produces us as His bride who will be presented to Him as the Bridegroom, glorious, spotless, and with no blemish.

The key to being prepared as the glorious bride of Christ is listening to the Lord’s speaking.

This means that we are slow to speak and quick to hear. We stop our being, we turn our hearts to the Lord, and we want to behold Him face to face (2 Cor. 3:16-17).

We stop talking about trivial matters, we do not focus on earthly things, and we listen to the Lord.

May we all adopt this attitude of listening to the Lord, realising that our lives depend on the Lord’s words and our work depends on His commandments.

Unless the Lord speaks to us, we cannot do anything. Unless we have the Lord’s speaking, we cannot initiate something or say something. We want to be those who listen to the Lord’s speaking.

Without the Lord’s speaking, without having His fresh and instant speaking, we don’t have any revelation, light, or knowledge.

Our life as believers in Christ hinges totally upon the Lord’s speaking. May we learn to be such ones today, loving the Lord and loving His speaking.

In Song of Songs the loving seeker of Christ asks Him who dwells in the believers as His gardens to let her hear His voice while her companions listen for His voice (8:13; cf. 4:13-16; 5:1; 6:2).

Even as we work for the Lord and in the Lord, doing the work that He has assigned us to do for Him as our Beloved, we need to maintain our fellowship with Him. We need to sit at His feet and listen to His words, always listening to Him (see Luke 10:38-42).

Our lives depend on the Lord’s words, and our work depends on His commands (Rev. 2:7; 1 Sam. 3:9-10; cf. Isa. 50:4-5; Exo. 21:6).

We listen to Him, and we speak. We listen to the Lord’s words, and we can move. Only when the Lord speaks to us can we do something or say something.

Without His words, without His present speaking, we don’t have any revelation, light, or personal knowledge of Christ as our King (Isa. 6:1, 5), our Lord (2 Cor. 5:14-15), our Head (Col. 2:19), and our Husband (2 Cor. 11:2).

Our life as believers in Christ and lovers of the Lord Jesus who pursue Him and want to gain Him hinges totally upon the Lord’s speaking.

This should be the reality of our daily life as Christians and also our living in the church life.

We await the Lord’s return and we desire to have His speaking. His present and instant speaking is everything to us.

He is our Head, our Husband, our King, and our Lord; He is also our Bridegroom, and we love to fellowship with Him, listen to His words, and be one with Him. Oh Lord! Amen!

Lord Jesus, we love You and we love Your speaking. You are our beloved. While we are waiting for Your return, we want to listen to Your speaking. Make us those who hear. Oh Lord, as we live our Christian life and work with You and for You, we want to be those who listen to the Lord’s speaking. Please allow us to hear Your voice, for only this can guide us until Your return. Amen, Lord, let us hear Your voice today. Our life depends on Your words. Our work depends on Your commands. Oh Lord, without Your words we have no revelation, light, or personal knowledge of Christ as our King, Lord, head, and Husband! We love You, Lord, as the One who dwells in the gardens! Our companions listen for Your voice – let us hear it! Make haste, dear Lord Jesus, to come! Speak to us! Reveal Yourself to us. Unveil us to see You and grant us to hear what You are speaking to the churches. Amen, Lord, make haste to come, our dear Beloved, like a gazelle or a young hart upon the mountains of spices! Come, dear Lord Jesus!

As the Lord’s Loving Bride, we Pray for our Beloved to Make Haste to Come Back Soon!

As believers in Christ who love the Lord and pursue Him in love, we aspire to be part of the Lord’s bride, His glorious church, for whom He will return soon.

We want to hear the Lord’s speaking and listen to it, and our desire is for the Lord to come. Our Christian life depends on the Lord’s speaking and our Christian work depends on His commands.

He is our Beloved, and we are His loving seekers. On the one hand, our loving pursuit of the Lord is very personal and intimate, for we love Him, we want to kiss Him, and we desire to be with Him; He dwells in our garden in an intimate and personal way.

On the other hand, we are built up together to be the bride of Christ, the loving and glorious bride of Christ who prays for the Lord to come.

The Lord is still calling today for His overcomers, for He wants all those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches.

When we listen to the Lord’s speaking, when we have ears to hear what He is speaking, we will pray that our Beloved would make haste to come back in the power of His resurrection to set up His sweet and beautiful kingdom which will fill the whole earth (Rev. 11:15; Dan. 2:35).

He desires to come, and we yearn for His coming. We love Him, we’re being transformed and conformed to His image, and He is ready to return.

The prayer at the end of Song of Songs is the concluding word of this poetic book, portraying the union and communion between Christ as the Bridegroom and His lovers as the bride.

We are the Lord’s lovers, His loving seekers, and we listen to the Lord’s speaking and pray for Him to return quickly.

This is not something that only the loving seeker in Song of Songs prayed and yearned for; this is the prayer that concludes the whole Bible.

The last prayer in the Bible is in Revelation 22:17 which says, And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say, Come!

Our desire is for the Lord to come quickly. First, He says, Behold, I come quickly. Now we say, Amen, come, Lord Jesus (v. 20).

When we listen to the Lord’s speaking, we are not only infused with what He is to be inwardly changed and transformed into His image, but even more, we speak what He speaks. He speaks something, and we say Amen to His speaking.

The deepest desire in the Lord as our Beloved Bridegroom is that He would return; when we listen to the Lord’s speaking, we will say, Amen, Come Lord Jesus!

The Lord’s desire in the depths of His heart is to come quickly and set up His beautiful and sweet kingdom to fill the whole earth, so that the earth and heaven will be new and filled with righteousness.

So we say Amen, come Lord Jesus, and may Your kingdom come! Come, Lord Jesus! is the last prayer in the Bible; the entire Bible concludes with the desire for the Lord’s coming expressed as a prayer.

As we listen to the Lord’s words and speak what He speaks, uttering His prayers for Him to return quickly, we are fully one with the Lord as the bride is one with the bridegroom.

When He returns, our experience will be like that of a drop of water that has disappeared into the ocean; there will be no more room for advancement, though the tide can always go deeper. Amen!

When we today reach the point of maturity in life and oneness with the Lord, being one with His speaking to speak the same thing, we still have our body that lives in this world, but we cannot help but cry, Make haste, our Beloved, to come!

We love Him to the uttermost, but one thing is lacking: we want to be delivered from this body of humiliation and be brought into HIs glory!

We believe that, when he returns, faith will be turned into facts and instead of prayer, we will praise! Our love will consummate in a shadowless perfection, and we will serve the Lord in the sinless domain. Oh, what a day that will be!

Lord Jesus, come quickly! We love You. We are one with You. We love Your indwelling. We open to You fully from within. We listen to Your speaking. We are one with You to say, Come, Lord Jesus! Amen, make haste, our beloved, to come! Come as quickly as the gazelle or a young hart! Come and set up Your sweet and beautiful kingdom, which will fill the whole earth! Amen, Lord, we are fully one with You and we speak what You speak. We utter Your desire in our prayer. Though we live on this earth, our heart is with You and in You. Though our body is here on earth doing this or that, our whole being is with You, and we earnestly desire for You to come back quickly! Amen, Lord, we yearn for Your coming to turn our faith into facts! Come, Lord Jesus, and consummate love in a shadowless perfection! We want to serve You in the sinless domain! Come in Your kingdom! Come with all Your saints to establish Your kingdom! Amen, come, Lord Jesus!

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References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brother Ed Marks in this conference, and portions from, Collected Works of Watchman Nee, vol. 23, “The Song of Songs,” pp. 116-126, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Maturity of the Bride (2025 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 4, The Beauty of the Bride – day 6.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – My Beloved, come on spices’ mountain; / How I yearn to see Thee face to face. / Drink, dear Lord, from my heart’s flowing fountain, / Till I rest fore’er in Thine embrace. / Not alone, O Lord, do I adore Thee, / But with all the saints as Thy dear Bride; / Quickly come, our love is waiting for Thee; / Jesus Lord, Thou wilt be satisfied. (Hymns #1159 stanza 4)
  – Pray to fellowship with Jesus, / In the spirit seek His face; / Ask and listen in His presence, / Waiting in the secret place. / Pray to fellowship with Jesus, / In the spirit seek His face; / Ask and listen in His presence, / Waiting in the secret place. (Hymns #784 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – Drink! A river pure and clear that’s flowing from the throne; / Eat! The tree of life with fruits abundant, richly grown; / Look! No need of lamp nor sun nor moon to keep it bright, for / Here there is no night! / Do come, oh, do come, / Says Spirit and the Bride: / Do come, oh, do come, / Let him that heareth, cry. / Do come, oh, do come, / Let him who thirsts and will / Take freely the water of life! (Hymns #1151 stanza 1 and chorus)