Enjoying Christ in His word

Today the Lord is looking for some who have an upper-room consecration to give Him the cooperation He needs for Him to end this age and bring Him back. We want to be such ones. We want to be like the early disciples, those who see the heavenly vision of God's economy and the need for the recovery of His testimony and who give themselves to the Lord to be one with Him for this by praying in one...

It is amazing to see how in the book of Acts the disciples of Christ were a group of people who lived in the divine history within human history! One aspect of their living was that they continually enjoyed, lived, and proclaimed the resurrected Christ as the firstborn Son of God and as the holy things of David, the faithful things! Wow, Christ is God's sure mercies to us, and we can enjoy the...

We believers in Christ are learning to live in the divine history by rejecting ourselves and living by the divine life so that Christ may gain the reality of His Body on the earth. Furthermore, we continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word, and we are one with Christ to speak Him forth as the gospel to bring many into the enjoyment of Christ. Amen, Lord, we choose to live by th...

Did you know that, as believers in Christ today, we are the continuation of Christ, those who live in the divine history by living, moving, and acting as one Body, the body of Christ? Amen! We are those who are learning to live in a divine way by the divine life corporately to be the continuation of Christ on the earth, His corporate expression and manifestation! Amen, Lord, we want to live by the...

How encouraging it is to see that the disciples in the book of Acts called on the name of the Lord, were honoured to suffer on behalf of His name, and spoke boldly in the name of the Lord! Oh, the name of the Lord is life-giving, victorious, strengthening, and encouraging! When we call on the name of the Lord, we are saved and we enjoy all His riches, for He's rich to all who call on His name!...

Do you live merely in the human history by living in the world, or are you living in the divine history within human history by living in the mingled spirit and in the church? We believers in Christ have been born of God to be part of God's divine history today, and we need to live not just in the outward human history but even more, in the inward, divine history! Amen! Oh Lord, show us how to...

As believers in Christ, we can be commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers, and we can be committed to God and to the word of God's grace! Hallelujah, we can enjoy the word of God's grace today, for this word is able to build us up and to give us the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified. Lord Jesus, sanctify us in Your word! May Your word be full of grace to const...

Praise the Lord, we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, and not through any works of the law! Amen, we today are in the age of grace, and we are saved by believing in the Lord's person and His redemptive work! We today enjoy Christ as grace and we testify to the word of His grace, learning to give grace to those who hear. As we pray in one accord with the saints, we are commended to...

If we look at the mentions of the word grace in the book of Acts we will see the rich meaning and wonderful application and experience of God in Christ as grace to us. As the apostles gave testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, great grace was upon them all! Amen! And later we see that Barnabas saw the grace of God among the saints! Wow! May we continue in the grace of God today so that...

Oh, the experience of the grace of God in the economy of God is so rich and wonderful! We can experience the Lord's sufficient grace perfecting us, and Christ's overshadowing power is over us in our weakness! We are being perfected, established, strengthened, and grounded by God's all grace after we have suffered for a little while! Thank the Lord, we can carry out our stewardship of t...

Praise the Lord, we believers in Christ can and should experience the grace of the Lord as revealed in the New Testament! We have faith and love through the Lord's superabounding grace. We have obtained access into and stand in God's abounding grace. We enjoy eternal comfort and good hope in grace. We come forward with boldness to the throne of grace to find grace for timely help. We recei...

How rich is God's grace in His economy! His grace abounds unto us, His grace is sufficient for us, and His grace can be enjoyed and experienced by us in the situations of our daily living! Grace is not just a thing God gives us or something He does for us; grace is simply God in Christ dispensing Himself into us for our enjoyment today! May we enjoy God in Christ as grace today! Amen, Lord, we...

What kind of work do we do today for the Lord? And how do we work for Him in our daily Christian life and church life? May we be those who see how God moves today, remain in the divine stream, and are one with the Lord for His move, even do the one work for the building up of the church as the universal Body of Christ. Lord, we give ourselves to You to be one with You and in coordination with the...

Thank the Lord that we can learn the lessons in the book of Acts for us not to bring mixture into the church life nor bring in any religious practices or traditions in the church today. Even more, we can learn to use every opportunity, even our limitations, to carry out our ministry in full for the building up of the Body of Christ. Amen, Lord, may we be those who do all things for the building up...

We need to both learn the positive lessons from the early disciples and be warned as we read the book of Acts and see some of their failures. We need the Lord's mercy to be saved from Satan's schemes to frustrate the spreading and building up of the church, and we need to be in the flow of the age today! May we be saved from outward and dead ordinances, human opinions, religious traditions...

As we read the book of Acts to see how God moves through His disciples to spread the church, we realise that He needs to break through our human concepts and we need to cooperate with Him in prayer in one accord. We have so many natural, cultural, and racial concepts, and it is through our cooperation with Him for His spreading that He has a way to break through and spread! May we give ourselves t...

How wonderful it is to see that the church is not just local but universal, and the church is eternal! The church must constantly spread on the earth, and the spread of the church comes from the growth in life of the believers and the overflow of the divine life from them. Amen! As we grow in life and allow the Lord to fill us with His life, there will be an overflow of life, and many others will...

Did you know that God is flowing, and He has only one divine stream of His life and His work? Today we can be in the divine stream of God's life, fellowship, and work simply by giving the Lord the preeminence in all things and loving Him with the first love. Oh, when we love the Lord and give Him the first place, He has a way to flow in us and out of us, and we will be in the divine stream! Am...

Hallelujah for our wonderful Lord Jesus, the all-inclusive Christ, who is revealed in Acts as the Lord of All, the Judge of the living and the dead, and the Lord Jesus, the object of the believers' faith! Oh, our Jesus Christ is so lovely, so enjoyable, and so extensive! It takes the whole eternity for us to enjoy Him, experience Him, and partake of Him, and we will never exhaust His riches! T...

How wonderful is our dear Lord Jesus, the One who went through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension! He is both God and man, and in particular, He's the Son of Man comforting, encouraging, and strengthening us as we suffer! He's also our God, and He shed His blood to purchase the church! Oh Lord, we love You and we appreciate You as the Son of Man and...

Did you know that Christ is the Ruler and the Saviour who has the full authority to arrange everything in order for us to be saved in full? Wow, what a wonderful Christ we have! In His ascension He was exalted to be the Ruler over all things, even the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is exercising His authority to rule over the environment for the salvation of God's people, for He is also t...

Did you notice in the book of Acts that Christ has so many aspects, functions, and wonderful characteristics? As we read the apostles' preaching the gospel, they speak of Christ in so many ways, for He's the all-inclusive One! May we see Him in particular as the Author of life, the One who is the origin of life to propagate His life in us and through us! And may we enjoy Him as God's S...

Christ in ascension is on the throne, the Lord of all! Have you seen that Christ is not only in resurrection but also in ascension? The book of Acts shows us Christ in ascension, being enthroned far above all, crowned with glory and honor! Oh, what a wonderful Christ we have! He was not only approved by God and therefore resurrected, but even more, He was raised to the throne as a man, and He was...

What is the content of our gospel preaching today? What do we testify of when we preach the gospel? The disciples in Acts spoke concerning the resurrected Christ, testifying of the resurrection of Christ in order to propagate Christ. May we see a fresh vision of Christ's resurrection, be impressed with its importance and efficacy, and testify of the resurrection of Christ for His propagation!...

The book of Acts reveals to us the secret to accomplishing God's work: it is prayer! The disciples prayed again and again, and through prayer they carried out the spiritual warfare and defeated the enemy! Today we need to maintain the one accord by practicing prayer without ceasing. Amen, Lord, we give ourselves to You to persevere in prayer. We are serious with You regarding our prayer life!...