The apostle Paul had to learn to take the Lord’s restriction and accept God’s measuring, for whatever God measured out to him became his jurisdiction; we need to realise that, in church service, God has measured out only a certain amount to us, and we should not extend beyond our measure but know our limitations. […]
Open to the God of Measure as He Deals with us by Raising us up and Lowering us Down
As the God of measure, our God deals with us to lift us up and to lower us down, restricting us and limiting us, so that we may function in our measure and according to the limits He sets, for He is not a God without measure but He has a certain measure to our […]
Our God is a God of Measure: Learn to be under God’s Restriction in our Work for God
Our God is a God of measure, and in our service to God we need to not boast beyond our measure but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure has apportioned to us, knowing the God of measure and allowing the measuring God to limit and restrict us in our […]
The Consciousness of the Body of Christ and the Sense of the Body being Universal
According to the teaching of the Bible and our spiritual experience, there is something called the consciousness of the Body of Christ issuing from our enjoyment of Christ as the Head; the consciousness of the Body is the sense of Christ’s life within us, and this sense of the Body is universal. Lord Jesus, thank […]
Know the Body in Practice and do the one Work of Building up the Body of Christ
We need to know the Body in practice so that we may realise there’s one universal Body of Christ and there are many local churches, one church in one city, as the local expression of the Body of Christ in oneness, and we need to do the work of the Body, the work of the […]
Three Proofs that we Know the Body as we Grow in Life and Experience Christ as Life
For us to be ministers of life in the Body and for the Body, we need to know the Body in life; the proofs that we know the Body is that we are unable to be individualistic, we can discern those who are not in the Body, and we recognise the authority of Christ revealed […]
Know the Body in Life by Growing in Life and Experiencing Life to Minister Life
As those learning to minister life for the building up of the Body, we need to know the Body in life; the Body of Christ is formed by Christ as life in us, for His life mingles us to become the Body of Christ, and the life we have is a Body life; knowing the […]