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10/08/2021

According to the book of Joshua, the promised Canaan was both the good land of riches and the terrible land full of Nephilim. Similarly, the book of Ephesians reveals both the unsearchable riches of Christ and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies. Thus, our life today is a matter of enjoying the riches in Christ and of engaging in spiritual warfare!

We must see the necessity of warfare against the invisible layer of demonic forces between us and the awaited rest. But even more, we must see the invisible Captain of Jehovah's army - the Christ, who is the One fighting in us to fulfill God's eternal purpose.

When we deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow the Lord, we, like Israel, remain silent in belief and in trust, listening and walking according to the leading of the Ark, and overcome Satan by our praise. It is then that we find that spiritual victory simply depends on praise.

08/08/2021

The reason sorrow and grief comes upon us is that we are not content with receiving the same treatment as the Lord; we are not willing to submit to God's will and His arrangements. If we put the soul-life to death and submit fully to the Lord, our sensitive soul will rest in the Lord, and we will no longer misunderstand the Lord. A soul that is under the control of the Holy Spirit is a soul that is at rest.
(Matthew 11:29)

~Thank you for your potluck!~

21/07/2021

In Israel's war against Amalek, Joshua typifies the present practical Christ as the indwelling fighting Spirit - the One who fights against the flesh. Moses never could bring God's people into the promised land. Rather, it is Joshua who typifies the law-replacing grace who is able to bring us into the fulfillment of the promised land. Today, the access to Joshua, or "Jesus" in Greek, is in our spirit. It is in our spirit that we receive the command "be strong and take courage!"

As it was by musing upon the book of the law day and night that the children of Israel were prosperous in taking the land, so also it is by our musing upon God's word in continual fellowship with Him that we are enlivened, nourished and strengthened to take what God has promised to us!

20/12/2020

As His people and the nations suffered in the midst of the chastisements and judgements, what was the word of comfort that God gave through His prophets? It was the promise of the Christ.

Today, the realization and manifestation of the Christ is our word of comfort through all the sufferings we go through.

We must realize that what ended the chastisement of Israel and the judgement of the nations, and brought in the age of restoration was the manifestation of Christ! We must not miss this line! What ends our sufferings is not the "fixing" of the environment, the movement of social reforms, or even the vaccine of the pandemic. All these are just curing the symptoms. What the nations actually desire is Christ Himself who will be the Sun of righteousness bringing healing in His wings!

07/09/2020

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I do not know where they have laid Him.
The stone is taken away from the tomb.
Oh! They have taken Him away!
Oh! Where is He?

2
Disciples came and saw the empty tomb
But went away so soon to their own homes.
They’re satisfied with just the facts.
But where’s my Lord?

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Where is He, my Jesus?
Where is He, my Beloved?
Where is He Whom my soul doth love?
Jesus, my Love, I just want You.

3
My heart is broken from my deepest need.
Don’t ask me, angels, why I’m weeping.
Nothing but Jesus fills my inner being.
Oh! Where’s my Love?

4
Someone is standing right behind me.
It’s just the gardener I can barely see.
Sir, if you carried Him away...
Oh! Where is He?

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Where is He my Jesus?
Where is He my Beloved?
Tell me where you have laid Him
And I’ll carry Him away, I’ll carry Him away.

5
And then I heard a voice say, “Mary.“
That sweetest voice that penetrated me.
It is the voice of my Beloved,
Jesus, my Love.

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I have found my Jesus!
I have found my Beloved!
I have found Whom my soul doth love,
Jesus, my love, I just love You!

6
But Jesus told me not to touch Him yet.
He must ascend first to the Father
And to My Father and your Father
To My God and your God.

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Go and tell My brothers,
I ascend to the Father
To My Father and your Father,
And My God and your God, go tell My brothers.

01/09/2020

Visa to a better world

John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

Jesus is our peace during this difficult time, thus our hearts should not be troubled. The release of visas for the better physical world has temporarily been halted but the "visa" to a better heavenly world is available and ready today. This better country is the all-inclusive Christ as the good land. May we avail of this privilege to explore the all-inclusive Christ whose riches are unsearchable. Christ truly is the better world we are longing for.

Thank you for your !

26/08/2020

Previously, we talked about "overcoming prayers" according to Mark 11. We discussed how such prayers were in ascension, directed not to God but to the obstacles on our path, commanding, authoritative, answered and miraculous. But in contrast, the widow's prayers in Luke 18 are low prayers, directed to the seemingly unrighteous God, begging rather than commanding, oppressed rather than authoritative, unanswered and in weakness.

James and John, even the prophet Elijah had the overcoming prayers, but they were impetuous and rash. James and John sought to cast fire on the nations. Elijah thrice burned a company of soldiers for no reason. Miraculous, fearful, ascended and authoritative, yet nevertheless impetuous. But Jesus' final prayer before He went to the cross was not a so-called "overcoming prayer" which He had every capacity to "cast the soldiers oppressing Him into the sea". Rather, His prayer was a widow's prayer full of begging, realizing His case with His opponent was not His to bear, but for the Judge to decide...

I was very encouraged that He did not lose heart up to the end. Rather, even as He prayed for the cup to be taken from Him, the Father did not take the cup from Him. What an encouragement that His prayer was "not answered", at least in His lifetime. Just wow. The perfect Man with the perfect heart with the perfect prayer did not get His prayer answered! Was He wrong? When our prayers are unanswered, we often blame our prayers being wrong, our heart being wrong or our person being wrong in sins. And yet Jesus had His prayer unanswered! What an unrighteous judge God was to Him! Yet the end of this charge was that we "ought always to pray and not lose heart". (Luke 18:1)

God did not answer Jesus' prayer yet He did not lose heart, how much more we! We who do not deserve our prayers to be answered should all the more not lose heart also! Jesus took the lead! We follow in His pattern whether our God in whom we serve may answer or not! (Daniel 3:16)

In the end, God will vindicate Himself. He will answer the widow's prayer. (Luke 18:4-6) In fact, it is when all creation enters into the heart of the widow, longing in one accord for the Bridegroom to finally come that the whole universe will pray the final prayer. My friends, that final prayer will be a widow's prayer. "Come, Lord Jesus!" Surely only an oppressed widow's heart longing for her only Joy can pray such a prayer! Actually the final prayer will both be a prayer in ascension, an overcoming prayer, and a widow's prayer at the same time! Just wow! The consummation of all prayers, all creation eagerly awaiting the one unique Desire! Then the Father will vindicate Himself, and finally reveal His Son, the Beloved in whom we all find our delight! The Joy of all the earth, the Desire of the nations, "Lord Jesus, Come!"

22/08/2020

“The Bible is the Word of God. It is God-breathed (2 Tim. 3:16). Hence, we should not come to the Bible just merely for knowledge, but to Christ (John 5:39,40) to experience and enjoy Him.”

How to Study, Chapter 6, Key H. Tee

21/08/2020

We are much like Balaam.
We bother and ask the Lord for His will, yet we have already made up our mind. We only deceive ourselves. If we have decided already, why do we ask the Lord in the first place? Oh Lord, save us from being selfish! May we be those who have a pure heart and a single intent to know God's will and to do it.

Bible Reference: Numbers 22

20/08/2020

The first day of classes is just around the corner! Here are some useful tips on how to improve your study habits taken from the Study Seminar and Workshop 2020.

19/08/2020

Do you feel lonely and helpless?

Although we may be in grief and despair, in loneliness and abandonment, even in helplessness and weakness, we can nevertheless experience the good Samaritan in whatever circumstances we are in. He knows and understands what we are going through and He feels what we are feeling. Our Lord Jesus is in the right place and at the right time to help us. He reaches to where we are and meets our needs. But we need to allow Him. Allowing Him is our need and our only hope.

Thank you for your !

18/08/2020

Above all, you have to practice. There is no shortcut. It is like playing piano. Practice makes perfect.

"A very famous musician once said, “If I skip practicing for one day, I will notice it. If I skip practicing for two days, my friends will notice it. If I skip practicing for three days, my audience will notice it.” If this is true for practicing music, it is even more true for the spiritual lesson of rising up early..."

Watchman Nee, Messages for Building Up New Believers,
Volume 1, Chapter 11, LSM, Anaheim

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