It is a great help for us as believers in Christ to realize that, if we’re serious about waiting for the Lord’s coming back, we need to grow in life unto maturity, for He’s the real Farmer waiting with patience our maturity in life as the firstfruits and the harvest of the field. Amen, […]
God is Mingled with Man to form a Fighting Unit of Eternal and Perfect Government
It is quite wonderful to see that, according to the book of Numbers, in the Israelites encamping in array, their formation shows us that God is mingled with the created man, forming a unit of eternal and perfect government. In the first chapter of Numbers we see the formation of the army to fight for […]
The Readiness of the Bride Depends on the Maturity in Life of the Overcomers
The direction of the Lord’s move today is to prepare the bride of Christ, and the readiness of the bride depends on the maturity in life of the overcomers. From the beginning to the end of the Bible we can see that God desires to gain a bride – He wants to gain a counterpart […]
Living Always in the Presence of the Lord and Having Christ Constituted into us
Our God is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the Triune God. But what about Joseph – where does he fit in this? If we have the glasses of God’s economy on while reading the last chapters of Genesis we will realize that Joseph and Jacob are a […]
Being Governed by the Way God Sees His People and No Longer Judging or Condemning
It makes a tremendous difference to the way we live our Christian life and church life if we see the way God sees His people, that is, as sheaves full of life and as heavenly bodies full of light. When he was young, Joseph saw these two dreams and they governed his entire life. He […]
Presenting Every Man Mature in Christ by Ministering Christ to them for the New Man
We need to grow unto maturity to become a part of the corporate full-grown man that fulfills God’s eternal purpose (Gen. 1:26). The goal of Paul’s ministry was to present every man full-grown in Christ for the one new man (see Col. 1:28-29). For this, he struggled, strived, and even travailed so that Christ would […]
Being Diligent to Develop the Virtues of the Divine Nature to Grow unto Maturity
Being brought on to maturity is a lifelong process that requires our daily cooperation with the Lord to experience the development of the divine life and the divine nature contained in the divine seed that has been sown into us so that we may have a rich entrance into the eternal kingdom of our God […]