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13/11/2024

Tears and Prayers

“I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears.” 2 Kings 20:5

How good it is to know that God sees our tears. As Hezekiah prayed, he also wept; and God answered him. Such tearful prayers can move God’s heart.

It seems that whatever cannot move your heart cannot move God’s heart either. A weeping before men may reveal your weakness and lack of manly strength, but a weeping before God is different.

Yet be clear about this, that tears are futile if they are not shed before God. There are people who are prone to weeping, but if a man's cry simply expresses his own sorrow and distress, it will not produce any positive results.

Tears accompanied by prayer, however, are effective. Every time you cry in distress, why not therefore add prayer?

The supplications of the Lord Jesus went up to God with strong crying and tears, and he was heard because he feared.

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13/11/2024

The Better Covenant

The New Covenant is full of God's grace. In order to enjoy such grace each one who belongs to the Lord must know what this New Covenant is.

How sad that many of the Lord's people today neither appreciate nor understand this New Covenant. For this reason we have a burden to release some messages on the New Covenant.

Even so, the New Covenant is such a comprehensive subject that we cannot exhaust its richness with our limited learning, experience and words.

Still, we look to God's grace and are willing to share with His children the little we have received.

Our earnest prayer is that God would enable us to know something of the New Covenant and lead us into its spiritual reality.

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13/11/2024

THE CRY FOR VINDICATION

After the widow suffered, she came to the judge for vindication. We should learn from this. We should not come before earthly judges for anything. We should cry out to our Judge who is our Father God.

The weapons of our warfare are not fleshly (2 Cor. 10:4); hence, we should not deal with the fleshly men, who are utilized by Satan, by any fleshly means. Instead, we should pity them because they have become Satan's tools.

In spiritual warfare, fleshly weapons are completely useless. Not only are they useless, but all those who use them will be overcome by Satan! We should use spiritual weapons to fight spiritual warfare.

There are, of course, many spiritual weapons, which are all recorded in Ephesians 6. The most important of these is the prayer of verse 18. We are powerless in ourselves and cannot seek to avenge ourselves, but we can pray to God and ask Him to avenge us.

Prayer is the best offensive weapon against the enemy. In prayer we maintain our ground, and through prayer we can attack the enemy and damage his plan, his work, and his power.

The widow knew that for her to fight or argue with the opponent was futile, for a weak widow can never prevail against an evil rogue.

In the same way, if God's children will not trust in God's power, if they will not have prayer as their shield, if they will not accuse the enemy in the midst of his accusations, crying for God's avenging, but rather, go to war alone against Satan, they will surely be hurt by his flaming darts.

In this parable, the Lord Jesus tells us the best way to overcome our opponent by crying to God day and night, calling for His vindication of us and His judgment and punishment on Satan.

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06/09/2024

I am doing a great work

"I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, while I leave it?" Nehemiah 6:3

When the nation of Israel had so sinned that God must give them into captivity, he was already making his own plans to restore them to their land again.

Among the instruments whom he prepared for this purpose was Nehemiah, a man whose spirit was in the land of God’s promise even while he himself served as a captive exile in the Persian palace of Shushan.

In asking the king for permission to return to Judah, Nehemiah knew he was risking his life. He succeeded in his request, but as he set out on his journey he could hardly have foreseen the opposition he would meet on his arrival there.

Yet whatever the enticements, he never once deviated from his "great work" of building for God. Steadfastness of purpose marked him. It is also our secret of spiritual triumph.

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06/09/2024

He kindled a few candles

“Among whom ye are seen as lights in the world.” Philippians 2:15

A candle should burn until it is all consumed; likewise a man’s testimony should continue until his death. It one candle’s light is to live on, then it needs to kindle another before it is completely burned out.

By kindling candle after candle, the light can shine on and on until it covers the whole world. Such is the testimony of the Church.

When the Son of God came to the earth, he kindled a few candles; later on he ignited another candle in Paul, and of course many more. During the 2,000 years since then, the Church’s light continued burning on in candle after candle.

Many have even sacrificed their lives to ignite others, but although the first candle gutters out, the second one continues, and so on and so on. Go therefore and witness for the Lord!

Let his testimony shine out in the earth unceasingly.

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06/09/2024

HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN BEING SPIRITUAL AND BEING SOULISH

The answer to this question is very long. Here, we can only mention something in brief. We have seen that from the time of our regeneration there are two lives within us.

One is the soulish life, and the other is the life of the spirit. With these two lives, there are two natures. One is the flesh, and the other is the nature of God.

We have also seen how one of our two natures, the flesh, was crucified, and the other, God's nature, is invested with the full authority to rule over our whole being.

The question of the two natures is solved. But the question of the two lives still remains. Both the soulish life and the spiritual life now live within us simultaneously.

Although the spiritual life itself is very strong, the deep-rooted operation of the soulish life rules our whole being.

Unless a person is willing to give up his soul-life and to allow the spiritual life to live and to operate, there will be little chance for the spiritual life to develop.

A spiritual Christian is one who allows the Holy Spirit to operate within his spirit. He accepts the Holy Spirit as a person dwelling in his own spirit and allows the life given by the Holy Spirit to supply him with all the strength he needs for his walk.

All the principles of his living are no longer guided and affected by the mind or the emotion. Instead, he is living dispassionately in the spirit.

The soulish Christian is just the opposite. Although he has the spiritual life, he does not derive vitality from his spiritual life.

Instead, his daily living still has the soul as its life, and he continues to be guided and affected by the mind and the sensations.

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06/09/2024

GOD'S WILL IN SUFFERING.

In Luke xxii. 42, we read: "Not My will, but Thine be done." These words, spoken in Gethsemane, indicate that Christ put His will on God's side, in the awful anguish He was going through.

The pressure was so strong that His sweat became as great drops of blood. "Not My will, but Thine," was the declaration of His attitude as He set His will.
He had come to the same choice just before "Now is My soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour?"

"Shall I say, `Father, save Me'?" "No," but "Father, glorify Thy Name." Christ put His will for God's glory. And as He put His will on God's side against this awful pressure, He was heard, He was sustained. Then an angel came and ministered to Him.

If you too will make this the central principle of the spiritual life, and set the helm of your will unvaryingly to choose God's will because it is God's will, then He will apply to your life Christ's victory on Calvary in such a way, as to endue you with power, for the deliverance of others from the power of evil spirits.

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06/09/2024

HOW THE LORD KNEW THE WILL OF GOD.

The Lord Jesus knew the will of God in His spirit. See John iv. 4: "He must needs go through Samaria." The literal rendering is that "It was binding upon Him." It was God's will that He should go, and He knew it, because His spirit was pliable.

If you are to know the will of God you must not have a hard or unbending spirit. You need a spirit so flexible that it can move whichever way God wants, and I do not see how we are going to know and walk in the will of God, in harmony with God's Word, unless we consent to this walk in the spirit.

If you insist that such and such a course must be taken to-morrow, you have not left yourself open to the will of God to effect any change. The Lord does not seem to have had inflexibly fixed plans.

"But are we to make no plans?" you ask. Yes, but they should be made in such a way that you can drop them, if necessary, in a minute. You will not walk continuously in the will of God until you have learnt how to be pliable to His will.

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06/09/2024

GOD'S WILL

Romans 8:37 says that we can "more than conquer." This means a victory among victories, the highest form of victory. To conquer means to be on top.

We have to ask if the experiences of temptations, circumstances, emotions, frustrations, and depressions belong to our old man or our new man. If they belong to the old man, we have overcome them on the cross already, and they are under our feet.

This does not mean that we can avoid the things mentioned above; however, it does mean that we can take control of them. The way to victory is not to develop the old man but to trust in the Holy Spirit for power to resist temptations.

God's children are often unaware of the fact that spiritual depressions come from the enemy and not from God! At the needed moment, we must resist through the power of the cross. Every step of the Christian life is a wrestling.

Every time that we die to the things that oppress us and hold the devil at bay by obeying the Spirit, we allow the Spirit to take a firmer hold of us, and we shake ourselves further away from the devil's grip.

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06/09/2024

God's Sympathy For Our Weaknesses.

“For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.” Hebrews 4:15

Why was it that our Lord Jesus did not enter this world as a grown man? Why did he have to be conceived as a baby, to be nursed and carried, until he gradually grew up to manhood?

Why was he obliged to pass through more than thirty years of earthly sufferings? Could he not as easily have accomplished the work of redemption by coming down into the world and being crucified three days later?

The answer is that he suffered chastening and hardship and frustration and disappointment in order that he might be sympathetic with you and me.

Sympathy is compassion, “suffering together.” He feels with you. He is always sympathetic toward your infirmities, never to the sins you commit, but always to the sufferings of your body and distresses of your soul.

He has been through it all. He not only has the grace to save you; he also has the heart to sympathize with you.

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06/09/2024

God Waits For Us To be Empty

“And she said, thy handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.” 2 Kings 4:2

The work of the Holy Spirit is not “once empty, always full”; it is “keeping on being empty to keep on being full.” The woman’s difficulty was having too few vessels.

She was told to borrow “not a few.” which is to say “the more the better.” The greater the space, the greater will be the fullness. This is the rule which God wants us to learn.

He waits for us to be empty. If you have an unlimited vacancy, the Holy Spirit will occupy it all, dispensing to you his unlimited fullness. Let me repeat; our emptying needs to be continuous. To the degree that we empty ourselves. God can fill us.

The emptying is our responsibility, just as the filling is His. God wants to see the hungry filled with good things. Only those who presume to be rich will he send away empty.

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06/09/2024

Satisfied with Him

Contentment is a virtue of the saint. The first step toward it is to offer up everything to God. Taking God as all gives one a heart of contentment.

Saints who entangle themselves with the world cannot help but crave for vainglory. Vainglory, like all other kinds of glories in the world, cannot satisfy man's heart. No matter how much fame a believer may gain, he will never be satisfied.

Blessed is he who knows that the Lord Jesus is our all! If we have never ascended with the Lord to see all the vanities under the sun, it will be hard for us not to set our mind on things of this earth.

If we have not been enlightened by the Holy Spirit to see that what we have is forever and is real, we too will be greedy. Praise God, He is the treasure to those who believe in Him.

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