Having a Mind to Suffer

Having a mind to suffer means that we are prepared before the Lord to suffer. It means that we are ready to suffer and that we choose the way of suffering. If the Lord does not allow suffering to come our way, that is His business. On our side, however, we are always ready for suffering. … The degree of our willingness to suffer determines the amount of spiritual work we will perform. If our mind to suffer is limited, our spiritual work will be limited, If our mind to suffer is limited, our blessing to others will be limited, and the result of our work will be limited as well.

The Prophesy for the Building up of the Church

Since to prophesy is to speak for the Lord and speak forth the Lord, that is, to minister Christ to others, which is main thing in the church meeting, prophesying requires the divine life to fill it as its content. Love is the excellent way to experience the divine life and make it the content of the gift of the prophecy for the building up of the church. Hence, we must pursue love and desire earnestly these greatest gifts.

Grow in Life unto Salvation

After regeneration the newborn babes need to feed on the milk of the holy Word. … This feeding is so that they may grow in life unto their daily salvation. Every day we need to be saved. This is because our attitude, the tone of our voice, and our spirit are not so right. Even the way we look at others is not so right. We need to be adjusted, to be saved from many things. We need to grow unto such a salvation. … We need a growth that results in salvation.

The Experience of Valleys and Hills

All the valleys are the experiences of the cross, the experiences of the death of Christ, and all the hills are the experiences of the Lord’s resurrection. A valley is the cross; a hill is the resurrection. We must be one who always has some trouble, some valley, but also one who is always on the hills, always in the experience of resurrection. Whenever there is a valley, there is a hill. Whenever you experience the death of the cross, you will experience the resurrection. The living waters flow forth from all these experiences.

Count All Things to be Loss for Gaining Christ

The way to obtain Him, gain Him, experience Him, and enjoy Him is to deny whatever we are, whatever we have, and whatever we can do. Do not bring anything to Christ. He does not need what you are or have, but you need Him. In every way Christ wants to replace you with Himself. Christ has already obtained us that we may obtain Him. Now He is waiting for us to experience Him and enjoy Him by denying all things and by counting all things loss for His sake.

A Spiritual Living

The purpose of God’s salvation is not to make us merely ethical or religious people. The purpose of God’s salvation is something higher that this. It is not enough to be either ethical or religious. God’s purpose in His salvation is to work in us to the extent that would have a kind of living that surpasses the ethical and religious living. This kind of living is a spiritual living.

To Partake of the Lord’s Table

To partake of the Lord’s table is to remember the Lord. … When we receive Him into us, He becomes our life and strength within, enabling us to love those whom we cannot love, to do what we cannot do, to be what we cannot be, and to live in a way that we cannot live. Then during the week He will be digested in us to become our everything, making us joyful and satisfied. This is to enjoy Christ and to receive the Lord.

Christ as Life

Christ today is the life-giving Spirit. He is the living Spirit who is with us all the time. He is present, prevailing, available, and instant. No matter where you are, no matter what situation you are in, whether you are dealing with someone or you are being dealt with by someone, forget about yourself and your reasonings; simply open to Him and call, “O Lord Jesus.” Just enjoy Him. He is your life and your content. He is the meaning of your human life.

Prayer and God’s Work

If our prayer is only for the fulfillment of our plans and wishes, it will not have any value in the spiritual realm. Only the players that are initiated by God and that echo what He has initiated have any worth. God’s work is governed by the prayers. God is willing to do many things, but He will not do them when His people do not pray. He must wait for man to agree with Him before He will do them. This is a great principle of God’s work, and it is also one of the most crucial principle in the Bible.

The life of The Altar and the Tent

God demands that everything we have be placed on the altar and that we have placed what He has left for us in the tent. We can only have the second altar when everything is in the tent. … It is easy for us to be stirred up, to become zealous, and to consecrate ourselves. But three or five years after this, we collect many things from the world again, and we cannot go back to the altar anymore. … The problem is not with possessions. The problem is with how our consecration stands.

New Jerusalem

The New Jerusalem is a constitution of God and man and man and God, who are constituted into one; it is divinity expressed in humanity and humanity glorified in divinity. Therefore, they two become a mutual dwelling place. The One who is God yet man dwells in the One who is man yet God, and the one who is man yet God dwells in the One who is God yet man. They are mutual dwelling place. Thus, His divine glory shines forth radiantly with great splendor in humanity. There is not one bit of good or evil here, and it has nothing to do with good and evil. God’s economy is absolutely outside of good and evil. This economy is God and man becoming one entity, as one who is God yet man and man yet God.