Ministry Excerpt: Morning Revival

Why hello there! It’s been a while since I last posted on this blog, please forgive me.

For the past few months I have been receiving prayer burdens via beseeching.org and they have been a great help to direct intercessions in my prayer times with the Lord. Primarily, prayer is a matter of contacting God, to be one with Him, to abosrb Him and to express His sentiments which He has revealed to us for Him to carry them out. Though it seems almost second-nature to have specific “prayer items” that we consider before the Lord.

One of these is regarding the matter of being revived in the morning. As a believer in the Lord, this is to be a normal matter. But often times it may seem that we are defeated when it comes to spending time with the Lord to be revived, enlivened, energised, this being our very sustenance for our day, our living in and by Him. So when I came across the following extract, it was specially a Godsend (hehe). Please read on and be enlightened! The following text is from Living Stream Ministry as per citation at the end:

A vital matter that is crucial to the practice of the church life in the new way is our living a life of morning revival and daily victory. We should not consider that to have a personal morning revival is difficult. To be revived is simply to be touched by the Lord anew. Whenever the Lord touches us, we are revived. In only two minutes the Lord can touch us and revive us. You may not have been revived for a long time, and you may feel that you are very far from the Lord. However, the Lord promises that, regardless of what we are, where we are, or how we are, He is always near to us. We may not have a pure conscience, but the Lord’s blood is ready to cleanse us. If we simply confess our failures, defects, wrongdoings, and shortcomings, the Lord will forgive us and cleanse us. Then immediately we touch Him, and He touches us. This is to be revived, and this kind of revival must be fresh every day.

We stress that this should be a morning revival based on God’s natural law. Every twenty-four hours there is a morning to begin the new day. The sun rises anew every morning, and we also must rise up every morning. Therefore, it is good for us to go to bed earlier at night so that we can rise up earlier in the morning. Every morning we should get up, make our bed, and then spend some time with the Lord. If we can give the Lord ten minutes in the morning before doing anything else, surely we will be revived. If we normally get up at six o’clock, we should get up at five fifty. Then we could have ten minutes to contact the Lord and be revived.

In our time with the Lord, the main thing is to clear up our conscience, to get rid of our inner condemnation. This is done by making a thorough confession of all of our failures, defects, defeats, wrongdoings, mistakes, even sinfulness to the Lord. Then we can take one or two verses from the holy Word to use in our prayer. This is pray-reading. Do not be concerned about too many things, and do not care that much for your understanding. Take care of calling on the Lord, contacting the Lord, and touching the Lord with a proper inner sense. This keeps you in a direct, fresh, intimate, loving contact with the Lord…Use this ten minutes mainly to contact the Lord directly; then you will be revived. Because you have been revived, when you go to work, you will go with the Lord. In this way you will be victorious the whole day.

CWWL, 1989, vol. 3, “The Exercise and Practice of the God-ordained Way,” pp. 455-456

This is quite the encouragement to myself, as oftentimes this is a struggle for me. But how precious, that even 10 minutes, much less 2 minutes makes a difference when we truly touch the Lord to be revived. Sometimes I do dedicate this time in the morning but merely go through the motions, or worse yet… but! Being revived by the Lord is our victory! And also in relation to the prayer burden, this is a prayer not merely for oneself – but for every saint, a corporate view! That we would overcome in this matter of being personally revived by the Lord every morning. Briefly this made me recall a song which I have known from my youth:

Lord, grant me today a new start in this way,

A person of life I would be,

Just expressing You in all that I do.

Oh, may this life flow out of me!

When I first believed / Am I a person of life?

And with this song, another sentiment which I have had in recent days – to live each day with meaning and purpose, not wasting precious opportunities whereby I may gain Christ and He can gain me more!

Christian Faith & Experience: The Resurrection of Christ

“All Christians should be familiar with three things: the incarnation of Christ, the crucifixion of Christ, and the resurrection of Christ.” 

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Recently, I with other saints have been sharing with the younger generation (intermediates, highschoolers) about Christ – particularly in the aspects of His incarnation, crucifixion, and [tomorrow’s content] His resurrection, as presented in Journey Through The Bible – lessons that go into details from Genesis unto Revelation.

Even I, myself, feel that I am only beginning to delve into the depths of these matters, despite not being an intermediate, nor highschooler. But [related to tonight’s word with the JYP (“junior young people”)] “Out of the mouth of infants and sucklings You have perfected praise” (Matt. 21:16; cf. Psa. 8:2). How delightful it is to God, that we would have the attitude to be as a child, receiving His word in simplicity and purity.

As a little “sample” of my impressions:

• The matter of the resurrection of Christ is a fundamental aspect, a central item of the Christian faith.
  • From the perspective of God, it shows that God accepted Christ as our unique Substitute – this One who was crucified has been raised!
  • From the perspective of man, this is the continuation of the process that God went through, that through resurrection, Christ became the life-giving Spirit to enter into man, to be one with man – His very purpose, His heart’s desire.
• The question that begs to be asked then is: How is the resurrected Christ applicable to us? Through our contacting Him – which can be seen in the following cases:
  • Mary the Magdalene, Mary (the mother of James, of Jesus), and Salmone.
    • These women were likely anticipating to meet the Lord, to anoint His body for His burial.
    • So they went very early on the first day of the week to the tomb (Mark 16:2), yet they found not His body.
      • The principle is this: To meet the Lord, to contact Him – the best time is first thing in the morning!
      • Despite being weak and foolish (how could you expect to roll away a massive stone that blocked the entrance to the tomb, and even after going through the guards standing at bay to prevent suspect “robbers” from stealing the Lord’s body?), their earnest endeavouring to meet the Lord was not in vain! (This detail to be further described below…)
    • Angel(s) told them that the Lord had risen, and to go and tell the disciples and Peter concerning His resurrection (Mark 16:7), which then they promptly did so.As many may recall the journey of Peter, who as one of the Lord’s closest disciples was also one of the unreliable, unfaithful ones [hey, I think we can relate to this…] in speaking against the Lord and even to the point of denying Him thrice, the Lord specifically called out to Peter, to encourage him that it was not the end of their encounters. In fact, the Lord ends up making breakfast for the backslidden disciples as described in John 21 😀
      • The immediate response of the women to tell others – spread the good news!
    • John and Peter went to the tomb, saw it was empty, acknowledged that the Lord had risen (though not necessarily knowing what this meant exactly), and left.
    • But Mary (the Magdalene) was not satisfied with merely this fact that Christ had risen – where was He then?
      • This is where we see the lovely and intimate encounter that Mary had with the Lord – who was in mid-resurrection to going to the Father.
      • Mary was weeping, to the point of wailing, in her desperately seeking after the Lord, in discovering that He was no longer in the tomb (John 20:11).
      • In her desperation, this drew the Lord in mid-resurrection, provoked Him to appear behind Mary (John 20:14).
      • Even though she mistakenly thought the Lord to be the gardener at first, He tenderly called her by name, and she responded to Him in recognition (John 20:16).
    • The Lord then also appeared to the other disciples:
      • The two who were walking to Damascus, away from Jerusalem;
      • The rest of the disciples in a home.
      • Though the Lord’s appearance was in a different form, despite [overusing this word, but I feel is fitting] their unawareness – they did not realise at first, yet their hearts were burning (Luke 24:32), i.e. there was a recognition deep within that they had met the Lord.

Hence, may we regard the resurrection of Christ beyond understanding it as a central matter of Christian faith – even more, may we aspire to have such a vivid time of meeting the Lord, even many dear moments of contacting Him in such a lovely and intimate way!

So long, until next time! ♡

– T ♪

Emanna: Our Joy Being Directly Connected to God

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Isa 49:4 But I said, I have laboured in vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah, And my recompense with my God. (5) And now says Jehovah, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel would be gathered to Him; and I will be glorified in the sight of Jehovah, and My God will be My strength.

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Isaiah is one of the prophets who prophesied a great deal concerning Christ. In Isaiah 49:5 we see the work of the Lord on earth. Verse 4 tells us whether the Lord’s work on earth was successful. What was God’s purpose in sending the Lord Jesus to the earth? It was for the purpose of turning the house of Jacob back to God, to gather them to Him. But what was the result? Did he succeed? According to man’s view, our Lord failed completely. The house of Jacob did not turn to Him, and the Israelites rejected Him, denied Him, and crucified Him on the cross. Even one of His disciples betrayed Him. This is why verse 4 says, “But I said, I have laboured in vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity.” Brothers and sisters, in these circumstances–being despised by men on earth, with no result in the work, and seemingly having accomplished nothing for God’s will–we surely would have wept in sorrow. Even if we had not wept, we surely would have been sad, and even if we had not been sad, at the very least, we would have become passive.

But our Lord was different. Although He did not gain what He hoped for and missed what He yearned for, His justice was with Jehovah. Although He had laboured much and there did not seem to be any result in the work, His justice was with Jehovah. In other words, whether or not He was treated justly was something up to Jehovah. “My recompense [is] with my God.” Although He could not obtain anything from the house of  Jacob or from the Israelites, He would receive His reward from the Lord. Therefore, He was satisfied; He did not complain, weep, or grieve. This is the Lord’s attitude.

Brothers and sisters, this shows us one thing–we cannot be directly related to our work; we can only be directly related to God. We cannot be directly connected to affairs or people; we can only be directly connected to God. Whenever we are directly related to work, affairs, and people, we will feel hurt, weep, and suffer as soon as we encounter difficulties and adversities. But if we are directly related to God, we will rejoice when we are rejected. Even when difficulties arise and everything seems to have failed, we will be able to rejoice. If we are directly related to God, no success or failure will touch us. We will only care for one thing–whether or not the justice due to us is with the Lord and
whether our recompense is with Him. If our justice is with the Lord, our recompense will be with Him also.
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Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Watchman Nee, General Messages, Vol. 37, The Collected Works of Watchman Nee, pp .201-202. Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.

Emanna: We Will Cause the Universe to Praise God [excerpt]

Praise is the utterance of appreciation. We do not praise clay because we do not appreciate it. The day is coming when we, the sons of God, will be appreciated by all the angels. The more they look at us, the more utterance they will have that will flow out as praise to God. Their appreciation of us will become their praise to God. They will realize that what we are is the work of God’s abounding grace. The amount of praise depends upon how much work the abounding grace has done.

Amen, what a statement to make! In my experience, this does relate as my tendency is to praise the Lord, based from some aspect [of Him] which I [freshly] appreciate.

To think that the universe will look at us and praise, give thanks to God – what a glory to God!

Emanna: Peace From Committing All to God

Hallelujah! Even in despite of ourselves, and our tribulations of varieties, I had a fresh appreciation – that we can have the peace of God! And this very peace (definitely not peace of ourselves) is what guards our hearts and thoughts – in Christ Jesus alone.

As humans, mortal man, we are certainly quite fragile. But there is one thing that keeps us – that thing, or Being being God Himself ♡ I also appreciate that we just need to commit all things to God, no matter how small or big that very thing may be. Because the result is that we are not troubled by these things, but God’s peace keeps us! How precious this is!

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Phil 4:6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;  (7) And the peace of God, which surpasses every man’s understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Matt 11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

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The first thing that enables us to have peace is to bring all our matters and requests to God. Our work, our need, and the difficulties we encounter should all be committed to the Lord. We should say to the Lord, “Lord, I commit all these things to Your hand.” We can commit to the Lord whatever we encounter through prayer, petition, and thanksgiving, and the peace of God will keep our heart and mind. God will keep us. All we need to do is make our request known through prayer and petition with thanksgiving. As soon as we encounter any matter, we have to commit that matter to God immediately. Once we have made such a commitment, God’s peace keeps us. Whenever we make our commitment to God, His peace will come. As a result, we will be free from outside influence all the time. Regardless of how great the difficulty or how numerous the activities, the peace of God in us will guard our hearts.

The first condition is faith, and the second condition is obedience. God allows many things to come upon us. If we reject what God wants for us, if we do not accept His will, or if we have other desires, we will lose our rest within. We should realise that rest comes from consecration. Therefore, when any difficulty arises, we need to take His yoke and learn from Him. Although we may not be able to act according to our own wish and may have to suffer, we will have rest. We will have rest if we say to the Lord, “Lord, whatever You want me to do, I am willing.” However, if we are not willing to obey, if we choose our own pathway or our own way of life, or if we cherish our own desire, we will lose the rest. All of our personal desires and dissatisfactions will deprive us of our peace within. Peace will fill our heart when we say to the Lord, “Lord, everything that You give me is the best. I am willing to take Your way, choose Your will, and set aside my own wish.”

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Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Watchman Nee, General Messages, Vol. 37, in The Collected Works of Watchman Nee, pp. 119.  Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.

Emanna: There is Need of One Thing

Wow, just impressed that there is need of one thing – we may do many, many things… but the Lord is just after one thing. See below:

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Luke 10:38 Now as they went, He entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received Him into her home.  (39) And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s feet and was listening to His word. (40) But Martha was being drawn about with much serving, and she came up to Him and said, Lord, does it not matter to You that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to do her part with me.  (41) But the Lord answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things;  (42) But there is need of one thing, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

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One day as our Lord came to a certain village, a sister named Martha received Him into her home. She loved our Lord and wanted to do many things for Him in order to please Him. She did this and that; she prepared this thing and that thing. She did many things, but then she became disturbed. Not only was she disturbed, she also worried about many things, and her mind was troubled. Martha, like those who are ill at ease, sought to blame others by going to the Lord and saying, “Lord, does it not matter to You that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to do her part with me.” But the Lord  answered, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things; but there is need of one thing, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” Oh, the Lord said that only one thing is needed! Martha did many things, but the Lord said that there was need of only one thing. We plan one thing after another and do one thing after another. It seems that we have planned many things and done much, yet there is need of only one thing! There are not many needful things; there is only one thing which is needful!

Brothers and sisters, what is the one thing that is needful? It is nothing other than Christ Himself — this is what Mary chose. We can have this needful thing only by sitting quietly before the Lord as Mary did. Every Christian should work, and it is wrong if anyone does not work. The Bible tells us that the man who will not work should not eat (2 Thes. 3:10). We should work diligently. However, we often find no rest within when we work; we may even feel that we have forgotten the Lord. Sometimes we are so busy from morning till evening that we do not find time for prayer or Bible reading before the Lord. When we labor, do some spiritual work, or give assistance to a brother or sister, our motive is for the Lord, yet eventually we become distracted; our heart is disturbed. The problem is that there are too many things that cause us to forget the Lord and let Him go. Let us listen to the Lord, who is telling us that only one thing is needful! This very thing is to have rest in the Lord and to be content in Him.

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Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Watchman Nee, General Messages, Vol. 37, in The Collected Works of Watchman Nee, pp. 113-114.  Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.

Emanna: Building Up With What We “Have”

Praise the Lord! And welcome to the year of two-thousand-and-nineteen!

Just a little portion of Emanna which I enjoyed – that we may build up the church with what we have, this being something that is accumulated from our daily walk, through our constant communion with God ♡

Let’s have more fellowship with the Lord this year, for the building up of His church! Yes!

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1 Cor 14:26 What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
Col 3:16  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.

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There are two difficulties in the church. First, those who do not “have” think that they “have.” …God has never said anything to him or worked in him. He has nothing within him, yet he likes to talk, and he likes to express himself. When this happens, the church is not built up. Second, some people are unwilling to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Lord may have spoken to a brother or a sister, yet he or she waits and holds back from speaking. In this way the church is deprived of the supply it deserves. If you find that you are empty inside, you should keep silent. If you know that you “have” something, you should supply the church. The Holy Spirit dispenses life to the meeting through what you have, making it possible for God’s children to touch life. God may
put a word within you; the same word may be in you while you are at work and while you are walking on the street. You realize that God has spoken to you. You should realize that this word is not for you alone but also for the church. When you “have” something, you should supply the church with what you have.

At the time the tabernacle was built in the Old Testament times, the people dedicated their gold and silver to God. The same is true with us today. We should give what we have. Some have a revelation, some have a teaching, and some have a hymn. Let everyone bring what he has.

In our daily walk, we should have constant communion with God and look to Him for His work in us, so that we will “have” something and be able to supply the church with what we have. We should remember that God guides us in the meeting according to what we already have–a hymn or a revelation. We must first have something that we can share with others. Since we have learned and accumulated something during our daily walk, we can be guided in the meetings and render a supply to others. What we give to the church should not be something that we come up with on the spur of the moment or
something that is according to our own good idea but something we have in our daily life, that is, something God has given us during our daily life. If we supply the church
with what we have, the church will be built up, and the brothers and sisters will receive help. If everyone supplies the church with what they have, the result will be living and
rich.

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Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Watchman Nee, General Messages, Vol. 37, in The Collected Works of Watchman Nee, pp. 69-71.
Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.

Emanna: Being Released to Speak for God

Hello! Just a quick update on an email portion of Emanna which I enjoyed tonight. As one who can often be timid, shy, certainly self-conscious, this word on “being released to speak for God” is rather liberating. Praise God we can speak for Him, and this isn’t from ourselves, for we speak His word with all boldness!

 

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Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings and grant Your slaves to speak Your word with all boldness, (31)  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.

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Some have an excellent inward disposition, but they are very timid. They have to make up their mind a few times before they can stand up to speak or testify for the Lord. Some have believed in the Lord, but they are afraid of passing out gospel tracts to others. Before I received the outpouring of the Spirit, I would follow a gospel friend for a mile or two and still not muster enough boldness to open up my mouth to testify to him. After I received the outpouring of the Spirit, I was no longer afraid of anything.

A self-conscious person pays attention to how well he dresses and how others respond to his words, etc. When he is invited to a meal, he cannot speak to others about the gospel in a released way. He cannot speak to a stranger without preparing himself carefully before he speaks… Sometimes we are too restrained in the meetings. When there is too much restraint, no one will dare to speak. Once there was a meeting in a brother’s living room. The Spirit came down, and everyone who was present was released. This kind of freedom is not licentiousness but a liberation in the spirit…. Only those who are free from self-consciousness can work for God, and the only way we can be delivered from our self-consciousness is through the outpouring of the Spirit.

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Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible (RcV) and Words of Ministry from Watchman Nee, The Works of the Holy Spirit. The Collected Works…vol. 41. 167-168. Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.

Emanna: Being Able to Do All Things in Christ

Hallelujah, what a portion we have in Christ! It’s so interesting, the correlation between Philippians 3:9 and 4:13 – I never saw that as the apostle Paul was found in Christ (3:9), he was thus able to do all things in Him who empowered Him (4:13). Whether he was abasing or abounding (4:12), he learnt the secret of abiding in the Lord. What a pattern this is to the believers in Christ! This also made me think of a song, which I will insert briefly (please view this link to enjoy the rest of this hymn): ♪

STANZA 1

I have learned the wondrous secret
  Of abiding in the Lord;
I have tasted life’s pure fountain,
  I am drinking of His word;
I have found the strength and sweetness
  Of abiding ’neath the blood;
I have lost myself in Jesus,
  I am sinking into God.

CHORUS

I’m abiding in the Lord
And confiding in His word;
I am hiding in the bosom of His love.
Yes, abiding in the Lord
And confiding in His word,
  I am hiding in the bosom of His love.

 

And without further ado, here is the excerpt from Emanna which was refreshing to me : )

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Phil. 4:12  I know also how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to hunger, both to abound and to  lack.  (13)  I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me.
3:8  …that I may gain Christ  (9)  And be found in Him…

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In 4:13 Paul refers to Christ as the One who “empowers me.” To be so empowered is to be made dynamic inwardly. Christ dwells in us (Col. 1:27). He empowers us, makes us dynamic, from within, not from without. By such inward empowering Paul could do all things in Christ. In 4:13 we find the secret to which Paul refers in verse 12. Here Paul says that he is in Christ, in the One who empowers him. In chapter three Paul testified that he pursued Christ in order to gain Him and be found in Him. Now in 4:13 Paul says that he is in Him. In Christ as the One who empowers him Paul could do all things. He could say, “Christ is my secret of sufficiency. As long as I have Him and as long as I am in Him, I can do all things in Him.”

To appreciate Paul’s word we need to join the phrase “in Him” in 4:13 to the same phrase in 3:9. In 3:9 Paul aspired to be found in Him; in 4:13 Paul declared that being in Him he  could do all things in the One who empowered him. This is the secret.

Our circumstances may change. In certain circumstances we may abound, and in others we may be abased. But whether we abound or are abased, the enjoyment of the Lord is the same. Perhaps he enjoyed more of Christ when he was poor than when he was rich. This, however, is my understanding. Perhaps Paul would say, “No, I enjoy Christ equally when I am abased and when I am abounding. It makes no difference to me whether I am rich or poor, high or low. The enjoyment of Christ is the same.” Even though the enjoyment might be the same, the taste might still be different. Whether or not there was any difference in enjoyment or in taste, it is certain that Paul had learned the secret.

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Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible (information available at www.recoveryversion.org), 1991, and Words of Ministry from Witness Lee, Life-study of Philippians, pp. 249-250 (available online at www.ministrybooks.org/life-studies.html)  Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA

Emanna: Seeing and Proclaiming Christ as the Son of God

Just a little ministry I enjoyed tonight 🙂
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Acts 9:18  And immediately there fell from his eyes
something like scales, and he received his sight and rose up
and was baptized.  (20)  And immediately he proclaimed Jesus
in the synagogues, that this One is the Son of God.

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Everyone in this world knows that there is a Jesus. But they
only know Jesus as one among millions of men in this world.
Although they regard Him as being a little more special than
others, He is still an ordinary man to them. But one day
light and revelation came to you; the eyes of your heart
were enlightened, and you discovered something. You
discovered that this Jesus is the Son of God. What a great
discovery! You discovered that there is one man among all
men who is the Son of God. This is truly tremendous! When a 
person receives the Lord Jesus as his Savior and confesses 
Him as the Son of God, he is doing a great thing, a 
tremendous thing. He cannot let the occasion pass by 
lightly, because it is a momentous event. 

If you realize how great the discovery you have made is and
how important and wonderful your discovery is, you surely
will tell others immediately, “I have met the Son of God,”
You surely will proclaim aloud, ” Jesus is the Son of God!”

Brothers and sisters, never consider your faith to be a 
small thing. You need to realize that your faith is a 
wonderful thing. Saul had to go into the synagogues to speak
because he knew that his discovery was too wonderful. You
will do the same if you realize how wonderful the things you
have seen are. Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God. This is
a most wonderful and glorious fact.

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Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the
Bible and Words of Ministry from Watchman Nee,
Messages for Building Up New Believers, pp. 279-281.  Both
are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.