Does this question sound intriguing? I really hope so. That’s because the genuine Christian life is a life in the divine mystery. Unfortunately, many well-intended Christians are distracted from the mysterious realm of God’s purpose revealed in the Bible to the material realm of the physical universe around them. This may be expressed in: treasuring
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Would you like God’s Word to dwell in you richly? Try singing it. That’s what the Psalmists did. They sang the Word of God…with incredible benefits. Just read Psalm 119. Their vital practice of singing God’s Word enlivened them (vv. 25, 50). It strengthened them (v. 28). It brought them salvation (v. 41) and comforted
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Have you ever noticed your experience of prayer becoming routine or stale? I know I have. Praying the same old prayers, without having a fresh touch with the Lord Jesus, can cause you to lose interest in prayer and possibly even quit praying. What a loss! But what can you do to invigorate and sustain
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Do you often find it difficult to pray—to have fellowship with God? If we’re honest, we all have to admit that this is our case. We often feel dirty, guilty, and insulated from God. So how can you “clear the slate?” That is, how can you pray in such a way that you make things
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One of the most important life practices for Christians is to spend time with the Lord Jesus first things in the morning. As born again believers, we’ve received the life of God, and our need is for this life to grow. Just as a newborn baby needs to be fed in order to grow, we
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Are you looking for some solid spiritual food?…a book that will introduce you to the deeper experiences of the Christian life? Then I’d like to recommend one of my favorite books—The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee. But for you to appreciate it’s depth, you’ll need a little foretaste. So in this post I’ve collected
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If Jesus, as the perfect and sinless man, needed to live on His Father’s every word, how much more do we who are fallen, sinful human beings?! Consider Jesus’ famous words in Matt. 4:4, “Man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God.” We may
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There’s a famous sermon titled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, an 18th century evangelist. The first time I heard of it was in a high school English class. It was in the context of learning more about the cultural landscape from this time period of American history in order
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One of the best ways a Christian can contact and enjoy God is to pray-read His Word. In John 6:63, the Lord Jesus told us His words are spirit and are life. Thus, if we want to contact the Spirit and to receive life, we need to come to God’s Word. This is the best
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In a previous post, “What’s the real significance of prayer?”, I pointed out that real prayer is to contact God in our spirit and to absorb God Himself. Prayer is our spiritual breathing (John 20:22) and drinking (4:15). But if we’re going to enter into this significance of prayer in order to absorb God, we need
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