Many times we think that God wants some super-hard-and-complicated things from us to do for Him, and so we feel really powerless.... even to "express God in all that He is" - by and in ourselves - seems so impossible and unattainable! Yet God's … [Continue reading]
The processed and consummated Triune God as the flowing living water is our practical salvation
How wonderful - today we are being saved by water: we're saved by drinking the living water as the consummation of the processed Triune God! Just as we shared before, God's intention in His economy is to be the fountain / the source of living … [Continue reading]
God is not angry with His people when they are thirsty and complain about it; rather, He cherishes and nourishes them!
This morning in my time with the Lord I was impressed again about our God - how rich, how fair, how bountiful, how loving, how kind, and how gracious God is! Our God is not angry - He takes care of His people! In Numbers 20 we see that AGAIN the … [Continue reading]
take the rod (apply the death of Christ to your situation) and speak to the rock(speak to Christ in faith)!
This week we're getting into the message entitled, Drawing Water with Rejoicing from the Springs of Salvation - in the Crystallization-study of Isaiah(1). Today I was reminded of the fact that most of the problems and murmurings in the church life … [Continue reading]
only by coming to God as the fountain of living waters can we be satisfied fully and become His expression today!
In Isaiah and in Jeremiah we see God dealing with His people, and many times we have the impression that "God wants to punish Israel" - all those judgements, wars, etc. But there is a verse in Jeremiah that sheds some fresh light on what God desires … [Continue reading]
by enjoying Christ we live in the Principle of the Restoration of Life for a New Revival(Isaiah 11)
I very much enjoyed that we need to enjoy Christ in the principle of the restoration of life as a sprout from the stump of Jesse and as a branch from the roots of Jesse. Especially seeing that Christ is the sprout and the branch for us to enjoy … [Continue reading]
Christ as the sprout becomes the banner, and as the branch He becomes the standard for all the nations
Today we have a foretaste of what God wants to accomplish fully in the next age - the restoration of life, the restoration of all things to Himself, and the restoration of Israel to God. Through the restoration of Israel, Christ will become a banner … [Continue reading]