Visit by the saints~

Wow, it sure IS cold today. The temperature displayed on my laptop was -1 degrees Celsius. You can even see the smoke puffing out from your mouth when you speak or say something. Sister Carol gave me a 'wake-up call' yesterday morning to inform of their arrival today. Sister Ming Ming from Newcastle also came over to Glasgow by airplane when she heard of Brother Joe and Sister Carol's coming. Praise the Lord for the members of the Body. Brother Joe and Sister Carol drove up to Glasgow from London, visiting a few broadcast listeners on the way. Brother Joe gave us a brief insight on how the broadcasting started in London, and how many believers were brought into a deeper enjoyment of Christ through these broadcasting. It was quite enlightening to hear how some people started listening to the broadcast. For instance, there were those who were fascinated with the 'strange' accent on the broadcast while driving (Brother Lee, of course :) , thereby pulling their car over at the sidewalk to further listen to what is being said. And through this, many were enlightened by the riches from the ministry and brought to a further enjoyment of God's word.

And being a typical not-so-good host, i never thought of preparing anything for the saints! Well, it was embarrassing, of course. Still can't believe we let them walk all the way to a Malaysian place to eat (15 mins walk from our place) and they even treated us for that meal. For us students, 15mins walk is of course, a piece of cake. But it's definitely not as proper for these older saints to walk so far, although they said "yea, 15mins walk is fine~ It's one-five right? Not five-O. haha.." However, while walking we still talked and laughed on the way, so it isn't too bad..

However, through their visit, Stella brought up that being with the saints just has that sort of different feeling. I told her, ya she's right. It's nice being with the saints. It's just a different feeling than being with others. You can feel the difference. Truly. And once again i thanked the Lord that we all have Christ within us. We have this same Person within us. Although outwardly we may look different, speak in different accents, have different preferences. However, it is the One within us which pulls us together. Lord, i thank You that I am given this privilege to Love You, and to have this Faith in You.

性格

享受弟兄的交通，关于主工人的性格。

我们的性格是30%先天，70%后天的，所以大部分是靠后天培养的。没有一个性格比懒惰更严重。一个懒惰的人会把大事化成小事，小事化成无事。然后，事情在他手中会拖延。一个懒惰的人，照马太福音，就有资格不进诸天的国，因为他是又恶又懒的仆人。一个懒惰的人，甚至连撒旦也用不着。

主说要"举目观看"因为庄稼已经发白了，可是我们好像门徒一样说要等四个月(约4:35)。我们若“举目观看”一下召会里的服事，单单利未服事，事情是要作都作不完，那牧养年幼圣徒呢？谁来作？求主怜悯我们，叫我们不懒惰；使徒保罗乃是殷勤多作主工。

弟兄然后说到如何“听人说话”。当有圣徒来和我们交通，我们要学习从他的话中听三样东西：1 讲出来的话； 2 没有讲出来的话； 和 3 他灵里面的话。作主的工有一个需要，就是能安静的坐下来听别人的话，并且听懂；如果不能听懂别人的难处，那我们在主手中就没有用处。

那我们如何能听懂人的话呢？我们要学习在神面前安静。弟兄给我们三点：1 不要主观（没有自己的意见）； 2 思想安静、不留荡； 3 感觉别人所感觉的（自己的感觉必须相当客观）。为着这个，我们的感觉必须受对付。我们的感觉受了对付，才不忙。我们这个人的思想是川流不息的，需要十字架的对付。我们是神的器皿，是神的量表；若这个量表不行，就不能测出别人的“体温”来。（主工人的性格。第一篇：会听别人的话）

Experience of the Lord

Lord, I treasure this sweet flow of life! Thank You Lord that You preserve and keep us in Your recovery. The blending and gospel move in Cameron highlands enlightened me with new experiences before Him. Lord, thank You for showing me the ending of man is the beginning of God. The cherishing of the morning dew is very refreshing in terms of showing me the God-ordained way of prayer, the Spirit, and the Word. Lord, praise You for enabling me to experience Galatians 2:20, I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. The Lord reminded me that I put too much natural efforts in doing His works, so He allowed strong wind and rain as obstacles for our trial. Lord, praise You for exhausting the self, that You may have a way within me for Your propagation. The Lord seems to be saying, “you relied too much on your natural strength and effort, you are not as strong as I’m.” Hallelujah that our Lord is the great “I AM”. Whatever you need, He is. Dear brothers and sisters, we need to say “I’m willing” to the Lord. The Lord showed me that if I’m willing to let the Lord have a way, then He will. I was in a temper when the Lord reminded me with the messages from the scriptures. Dear brothers and sisters, it is sufficed if you can believe 2 Corinthians 12:9, or Luke 18:27. We merely need to believe “I’m willing”. “I’m willing” and the hardships are over, so also with the bad temper. Lord, I do believe Your grace is sufficient for me. I cannot overcome bad temper by myself, but Christ can overcome it for me. The degree of our experience of the Lord depends on the degree of our openness to Him. The more our entire being is open to Him, the more He will shower us with experiences of Christ, the one that satisfies God’s heart desire.

While we were preaching the gospel with the saints, I really treasure the coordinating with the brother and sisters. Thank the Lord to keep us in prayer while we were travelling. The Lord kept us in the coordination of the four living creatures, learned to follow and lead in Christ. The Lord also reminded me to take care of the weaker vessels, by His mercy. We also need to take care of other saints’ need while we were following the heavenly vision. Coordinating with the saints brings in more practical experience of the Lord. The all-inclusive seed of our Lord is sown into the gospel friends, but only God can cause the growth. We need to treasure the growth in the Divine Life.

“And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to fleshy, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able to receive it. But neither yet now are you able, For you are still fleshly. For if there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and do you not walk according to the manner of man? For when someone says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not men of flesh? What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Ministers through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one of them. I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth. So then neither is he who plants anything nor he who waters, but God who caused the growth. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s cultivated land, God’s building.” (1Cor. 3:1-9)To plant, to water, and to cause to grow are all related to the matter of life. This indicates that the believers are God’s cultivated land (v. 9) to grow Christ. The ministers of Christ can only plant and water. Only God can cause the growth. The Corinthian believers overesteemed the planter and waterer and neglected the One who causes the growth. Hence, they did not grow in Christ as their life. The Corinthian believers, under the prevailing influence of Greek philosophical wisdom, paid too much attention to knowledge, neglecting life. In this chapter Paul’s intention was to turn their attention from knowledge to life, pointing out that to them he was a feeder and a planter; Apollos, a waterer; and God, the One who causes the growth. In 4:15 he even told them that he was their spiritual father, who begot them in Christ through the gospel. From the view of life, the divine view, they were God’s cultivated land to grow Christ. This was entirely a matter of life, a matter utterly missed by believers who are dominated by their soulish, natural life under the influence of their natural wisdom. (Footnotes 1&2 of, v. 6)

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. (1 Cor. 6:17) Coordination with the saints brings in the experience of the mingled spirit. Thank the Lord for the rich flow of life during the Lord’s Table meeting. We have the Holy Spirit within our spirit, so we can be one with the saints who have the same Spirit indwelling within. It’s very enlightening to see brothers and sisters to prophesy one by one, speaking for the Lord, supplying one another. Thank You Lord for Thy mercy and grace! Hallelujah!

O Lord, I love You, I really love You

O Lord, I love You, I really love You,

Without You life's really nothing,

You are so attractive,

and You are so charming,

Your riches are unsearchable;

Your name so dear and sweat,

Calling makes one satisfy,

Lord, You are mine and I am Thine Lord,

joined and mingled with You,

God-man incorporation,

foretaste of The New Jerusalem!

Thank you Lord for the blending with the korean saints. Their love for the Lord has brought them to Malaysia, to have a blending with the local saints here. I'm very touched when they sang the hymn to us in korean language. Although we have different languages, we have the same hymnal. O what a joy when we all speak the same thing also, tough in different languages, the contents are the same. Christ is all inclusive, whatever you need, He is!

The morning revival today is very supplying.

These all continued steadfastly with one accord in prayer... (Acts 1:14)

...They lifted up their voice with one accord to God... (4:24)

And when they had so besought, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness. (31)

We see the importance of prayer in today's message. The book of Acts shows that the apostles never initiated any work without prayer; whenever they wanted to do something, they stopped themselves by their prayer, giving God a way to come into them, to fill them up, and to saturate their entire being(1:12; 6:4; 13:1-4)

In order to be one with the Lord in His work, we need to pray ourselves into God and pray God into us so that we are mingled with God (Matt. 6:6)

To pray:

1. means to stop ourselves from doing anything apart from the Lord so that He can do His work through us (cf. 14:22-23).
2. means that we realize that we are nothing and can do nothing; prayer is the denial of the self (Gal. 6:3; cf. Mark 9:28-29).
3. by calling on the name of the Lord is to deny ourselves and to declare, "No longer I but Christ" (cf. Gal. 2:20)

Thank you Lord for His continuous life supply!

Experience of The Shattering of Soul-Emotion & Nourishment from The Morning Revival

I experience the dealing by the Lord in my emotion part of my soul. The Lord seems to be saying to me, "You have not loved me with the first and best love, therefore I shatter your natural love, so that you can return back to me as the prodigal son." Lord, I repent for my sin of back sliding in this semester. I ignored the Lord too much this semester, so the Lord took away the love. Lord, I'm sorry that I have not loved you much this semester. Have mercy on me Lord that I may be brought back to the one flow of the divine stream. I don't want to be out of the stream like Barnabas. Lord, I thank you that when I was helpless and not knowing what to do next, You reminded me to come back to Your embrace. Lord, I love you more compared to yesterday.

I recovered a normal morning revival this morning by opening to Him. The messsage today is very supplying. The book of Acts shows that the God-ordained way to carry out God's move to fulfill His New Testament economy is entirely by three main substances- prayer, the Spirit, and the Word. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the early disciples could not have maintained the one accord if they had different ways, means, agents, or substances for them to carry out the Lord's move on this earth; in order to maintain the unique one accord, we all must learn to do the same thing by the same way. We must not think of taking a way other than prayer, the Spirit, and the Word; any other way will cause dissention and division. I also enjoy Acts 12:24: But the word of God grew and multiplied. Praise the Lord that the word of God not only grows, but it multiplies!! I was richly supplied during the Lord's table, thank the Lord for the members of the Body, supplying one another with riches of Christ! Hallelujah! Thank you Lord!

Experience of Christ-As the available one

O Lord ,Thou art in me as life!
And everything to me!
Subjective and available,
Thus I experience Thee.
O Lord, Thou art the Spirit!
How dear and near to me!
How I admire Thy marvelous
Availability!
Hymn#539

The Lord is truly subjective and available to everyone, I can testify this from my experience. It is especially during the examination period that I have more experience of the Lord, may the Lord have mercy on me. It is exactly as it was written in this hymn that the Lord is always available, the key to be saved is just simply call on the name of the Lord, "O Lord Jesus!!!" There is never a graduation from calling His name. Dear saints, we can call on the name of the Lord! How marvelous and sweet is this name that what we gain is not doctrine,philosophy or knowledge, but LIFE! The life gained is not our physical life or psychological life, but spiritual (ζωε) life! Whenever I call on His name, I feel different. I inhaled the resurrecting life of our lord. Although I just called on Him once or twice sometimes, the Lord is very supplying. As it is written that there is no other name in this world that we can be saved but through the Lord Jesus Himself. Praise the Lord for His rich supply and love!!! We may find it hard to turn to our spirit when we are angry, but still there is a choice we can make. We can choose not to live in the flesh or soul, just turn, turn to Him. We may neglect the Lord when we are in a bad mood but we can overcome by turning away and look onto Jesus. We are more than conquer in Him who empowers us! Faith is a crucial matter, dear saints, have faith in the Lord to help us in overcoming every situation that in our concept we cannot overcome. He is in our spirit as the energising life-giving Spirit! May the Lord strengthen all of us.

Light Arising from Consecration to God

-The message was extracted from emanna-

John 7:17 If anyone resolves to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. (18) He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him, this One is true, and unrighteousness is not in Him.

Some may ask: “Why is it that others can have the light, but I do not have the light?” According to the story of Samson, whenever his hair was shaved, his power was gone, and he lost his eyes (Judg. 16:20-21). We do not have the light and we are blind because we do not have a thorough consecration. The Lord said, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The lamp of the body is the eye. But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” (Matt. 6:21-23). The degree to which our heart is turned to the Lord determines the degree to which our spiritual eyes are opened within. God's children do not have light because they do not have a heart for God. They do not have power because their consecration is too little. When our heart is not turned to God sufficiently, when our consecration is inadequate, and when we do not answer God's demand completely, God cannot get through in us. If our consecration is thorough, it will bring in spiritual riches and heavenly blessings. I believe that when all the brothers and sisters are for the Lord and are thoroughly consecrated, the gospel will be preached everywhere and heavenly blessings will pour down everywhere.

Brothers and sisters, there is no other way to genuine power, light, and heavenly riches except through answering God's demand. The amount of consecration we have to God determines the amount of power we have from God. May we not hinder Him. In order for God to have a way, our heart must be turned toward Him; we must answer His demand and allow Him to flow through us. Otherwise, we will only hinder our God. God desires that we turn our heart to Him and answer His demand. In His work God needs man. If we do not answer His demand, He will have to find someone else to answer Him and carry out His will. May God strengthen our aspiration toward Him, and may His will be carried out through us.

May the Lord make us a person who open thoroughly to Him and answer His demand that His will may be carried out. If we do not answer His demand, He will raise up someone else to carry out His will !!! This is a serious matter...