Not Usurping God but Praying and Being According to God’s Heart and for His Economy

The children of Israel had no thought of or concern for God’s economy, and their bringing out the Ark indicated that they were usurping God, even forcing Him to go out with them for their safety, peace, rest, and profit; in principle, we do the same thing whenever we pray for our prosperity without any consideration of God’s economy; instead of usurping God, we should pray, live, and be persons according to God’s heart and for His economy; whenever man’s need replaces God’s testimony, there is degradation. Witness Lee

The Lord within us all is aspiring to take us on from the tabernacle church life in the wilderness of the soul to the temple church life with Christ as the reality of the good land in our spirit! There's a hunger and a thirst in us from something … [Continue reading]

God’s Final Recovery is the Testimony of the Reality of the Body of Christ Today

The testimony of the reality of the Body of Christ is God’s final recovery — with Christ being everything to us, with the oneness of the Body of Christ, and with all the members of His Body functioning (Eph. 1:17; 3:16-21; 4:1-6, 16). 2015 Thanksgiving Conference, outline 1

The tabernacle and the temple are the center of the Old Testament and the consummation of the New Testament, and both of these typify the church. First, it was the tabernacle, which was portable, movable, and transient; the tabernacle typifies God's … [Continue reading]

Having an Enlarged Experience of Christ in all His Riches for the Temple Church Life

The tabernacle typifies God’s church on earth, or His church in the localities, whereas the temple signifies the church as the reality of the Body of Christ; the local churches are the precious procedure to bring us into the reality of the Body as the glorious goal of God’s economy. Witness Lee

We need to go on with the Lord from the tabernacle church life to the temple church life, and for this we need to go on from the wilderness to the good land where we have the all-inclusive Christ as our everything for the building up of the solid … [Continue reading]

Our Work, Behavior, and Person must Match the Church as the House of God

The work, behavior, and person of God’s people must match the church as the house of God, according to His design and pattern (Ezek. 43:10-12). #2015ThanksGivingConf

This week we shift our focus from the crystallization study of Exodus to The Church as the Temple of God - The Goal of God's Eternal Economy, and more specifically we want to see our need to go on with the Lord from the "tabernacle church life" to … [Continue reading]

Having a life of the two altars, and how the altar of burnt offering and incense are connected

In the tabernacle there were two altars, the altar in the outer court, the bronze altar for burnt offering, and the other in the Holy Place, the golden altar for burning the incense. At the first altar all the negative things and problems are dealt … [Continue reading]

Praying with Christ as the Incense Satisfies God and Carries out His Administration

The incense typifies the resurrected and ascended Christ, the unique One who is received by God and acceptable to Him; thus, He becomes a sweet savor to God. Since the incense signifies Christ, to burn the incense means to pray Christ; God’s desire is that when we pray, we pray Christ. #ExoCS3, msg. 12

God in Christ as the Spirit comes to us as the holy anointing oil to add the elements of God to us and infuse us with all that God is; after Christ is being wrought into us, we can go to God in prayer with Christ, in Christ, and even as Christ to … [Continue reading]

Being Salted by the Cross in our Prayer for a Pleasant Fragrance to Ascend to God

It is so sweet, calm, fragrant, and peaceful to see our wonderful all-inclusive Christ who was processed through incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection to become the ingredients of both the anointing (as God reaching man to fill and saturate man) … [Continue reading]