On one hand, we need to let the peace of Christ arbitrate in our hearts; on the other hand, we need to allow the word of Christ to dwell in us richly, allowing the word of the Lord to have the first place in us and to inhabit us so that we may experience […]
We need the Washing by the Holy Spirit, the Living Word, and the Inner Law of Life
In our experience, the defilement of the feet that need to be washed by the Lord signifies our separation from God and from one another through contact with the world; through foot-washing, we recover our spiritual freshness and vitality and we recover our fellowship with the Lord and with one another. John 13, a […]
The need for Spiritual Foot-Washing in the Church Life to Maintain the Fellowship
The Lord Jesus loved us to the uttermost, so He washed our feet; foot-washing in John 13 shouldn’t be taken merely in a physical sense, but even more, in a spiritual sense, for we need the Lord’s spiritual foot-washing day by day as we live in this world. Amen! This week in our morning […]
Abide in the Lord and produce Soothing Oil and Invigorating Wine to Comfort and Cheer
As believers in Christ, we have been grafted into Him; we simply need to abide in the Lord and produce soothing oil and invigorating wine to comfort and cheer God and man. In order for us to partake of Christ with His riches, we need to be cut off from our old background, history, […]
Drink the Water of Life in Resurrection to Build up the Body and Prepare the Bride
When we come to the Lord to drink the water of life in resurrection, we receive and enjoy all that He is and has accomplished, and we are made the members of the Body and are prepared to be the bride of Christ. Hallelujah, it is all accomplished by our drinking the living water! We […]
The Church is both the Bride presented to Christ and the Corporate Warrior of God
Our desire and yearning is that we would be the bride of Christ, the overcoming ones in this age; one aspect of the bride is that she is a warrior, for the church is both the bride and the corporate warrior to defeat God’s enemy. When we think of a bride, we think of utmost […]
The Beauty of the Bride comes from the Christ Wrought into and Expressed in the Church
For the presentation of the bride of Christ to Himself as the Bridegroom, the bride needs beauty; this beauty is nothing else but Christ wrought into us to be lived out of us and be expressed through us. There are many aspects of the bride, but what matters on the wedding day is that the […]