a Christian = a God-man

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. Lord Jesus, we open to You. We love You. We give ourselves to You. We want to serve…

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 function, our boast, our work, and our living. Lord Jesus, we want to remain open to You as You deal with us as the God of measure. May we…

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 function, testifying, and working according to His measure. Lord Jesus, may we know You as the God of measure. May we know…

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 You for making us members of the Body of Christ. Hallelujah, we are not only…

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 economy of God to build up the Body. Lord Jesus, grant us a spirit of wisdom and revelation for us to see Christ and also the…

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 in the order of the Body. Lord Jesus, save us from our individualism. We open to You. We want to know You as the Body and in the…

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 Body in life is the result of our experience of life and spiritual growth. Lord Jesus, grow in us. Grow in us unto maturity. Bring us on…

If we would minister life, we need to know, experience, and gain the God of resurrection, allowing the killing of the cross to work in us for the manifestation of the resurrection life and remaining in the death of Christ to be conformed to His death so that His resurrection life may be expressed through us. Lord Jesus, we want to be those who minister life to others for the building up of the…

We believers in Christ not only have eternal life and enjoy it, but also we can minister this life to other members of the Body, as seen in 1 John 5:14-17, for when we abide in the Lord and are one with Him to pray in the fellowship of eternal life, we can ask and give life to others for the Body. Lord Jesus, make us those who not only receive and enjoy the eternal life but who also life by this…

When we are fully reconciled to God, we are enlarged in our heart; we not only forgive an offense but also forget it, and the result is that we have peace with God and man, we boast in God, and we are saved in His life, for we are one with God and we live in God as God lives in us. Lord Jesus, we love You! We open to You! Reconcile us further into God! Enlarge our heart. May we be enlarged in our…

The two steps of reconciliation in 2 Corinthians 5 are clearly portrayed by the two veils of the tabernacle, for God wants us to come all the way into the Holy of Holies to be in oneness with God; we need to be further reconciled to God and pass through the second veil by the cross being applied to the flesh so that we enter into oneness with God. Lord Jesus, bring us on with You today. We want…

Christ died on the cross for us, the persons, that we may live to God; He was made sin for us, He came into us to constitute us, and He is making us God’s righteousness in the organic union with Christ, and as we receive rich supply of the Spirit, we become transparent, knowing God’s will and being right with God and with all things and persons. Lord Jesus, thank You for dying for us on the…

The ministry of reconciliation brings us back to God to such an extent that we become the righteousness of God in Christ; as the Lord shines on us and exposes us, we reject our disposition and condemn our peculiarity, and we just enjoy Christ and let Him live in us so that we may live out Christ as our righteousness. Lord Jesus, bring us further with You today. Bring us back to God to such an…

It is helpful for us to have a basic understanding of reconciliation to see the need, meaning, instrument, means, scope, sphere, fact, and experience of reconciliation so that we, as ambassadors of Christ, the new covenant ministers, may carry out the ministry of reconciliation, for two steps are required to be fully reconciled to God. Lord Jesus, thank You for reconciling us to God through Your…

The Christ who is making His home in our heart is the unlimited and immeasurable Christ, and He is filling us with Himself unto all the fullness of God to issue in the genuine church life; we need to let Christ make His home in our heart for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ for His corporate expression. Lord Jesus, we open to You and we allow You to make Your home in our heart…

We need to continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the Word; first, we continue in prayer in a steadfast way, and then in the ministry of the Word, and in particular in Ephesians 3:17 we see that Christ may make His home in our hearts by spreading in our hearts to become our person in our daily living. Lord Jesus, we give ourselves to You to continue steadfastly in prayer and in the…

If we want to be a man of prayer, we have to learn to pray with authority as we see in Matthew 18 and Mark 11; we need to be one with the Lord and pray for God’s will to be done, uttering God’s desire in our prayer and having God as our faith as we pray, knowing that what we asked for, He will do it. Lord Jesus, we want to be men of prayer. We open to You. May we learn to pray with authority. Oh…