Friday, March 2, 2012

Blosom of Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q3_IsHu-Mg
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/200
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ts/403

Jesus Lord, Jesus Lord.
How we long to touch You,
More and more, more and more,
That You may grow within us.
"Blossom of Gold" may You bloom and grow.
Bloom and grow forever
Then all will see, all will know,
You are the Lord within us.

主耶穌!主耶穌!
我渴慕摸著你!
多又多,多又多,
你長大在我裡。
願你的生命不斷成長,
『榮耀之花』盛放!
叫世人看見你
顯在我的身上。

Thursday, March 1, 2012

God has called us for His purpose



He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah; we are God's lion cubs

(toward sins, death, world, darkness, self, and anxieties)
He is the Lamb of God; we are the flock under Him.
He is the Faithful Witness; we are many witnesses of Jesus.
He is the Holy One; we are being made holy everyday.
He is the Firstborn Son; we are many sons of God.
He is Christ the Head; we are Christ the Body.
He is the Husband; we are His corporate Bride.

Enjoy this hymn and experience His duplicating work in us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tsKm8r7GX0
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php?t=ns&n=28
1. God has called us for His purpose,
His economy so glorious,
For which He was fully processed;
Consummated now is He!
As the Spirit, He indwells us;
As our God alloted portion,
Working out His full salvation,
Making us the same as He is.

(Chorus) Oh, may a clear, controlling vision of
The Lord's economy direct my heart,
And burn in me until my spirit's wholly set afire!
With spirit strong and active we'll press on
To consummate God's goal—New Jerusalem, Hallelujah!

2. Jesus lived the God-man pattern,
Set the way for us to follow,
He denied His natural man and
Was obedient unto death,
Once He was the only God-man;
Now we are His duplication.
As the many grains we're blended
As His corporate reproduction.

He is my God

May the Lord visit us like the rising sun and guide our feet into the way of peace. (Luke 1:78-79)

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php?t=ns&n=53
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn-ZC3310Xw
From the morning to the evening,
His faithfulness I see;
His mercy reaching sinners, reaching even me;
And I know, now I know.
Brighter than the brightest sunlight, all doubts and fears must cease;
Sweeter than the sweetest delight, His living Word in me;
And I know, now I know.
That God is there for me tomorrow,

As He is for me today;
That He'll take my cares and sorrow,
And He'll wipe them all away;
There's no crisis that He can't bear,
There's no storm He can't abate;
He's my God, He's my God.

Day by day His grace grows dearer; His love has conquered me,
Never leaving, never ceasing, His Spirit constantly
Flooding me, rich and free;
Higher than the highest heaven, He lifts me up to see
New Jerusalem descending, His Bride, His love to be
Eternally, it shall be.
That God is there for me tomorrow,
As He is for me today;
That He'll take my cares and sorrow,
And He'll wipe them all away;
There's no crisis that He can't bear,
There's no storm He can't abate;
He's my God, He's my God.

Dearest Lord, You've called us here

Be saved from this crooked generation! (Acts 2:40)

Let's be saved from this crooked generation and live a normal church life in the teaching and the fellowship of the apostles. (cf. Acts 2:40, 42)

"Be" is active, referring to our willingness to cooperate with God. "Saved" is passive, referring to our being replaced by God's life and nature. Be saved! Be willing to receive God's transforming work within us!

Actively enjoy this hymn and be saved into God's will - the ark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZsqi6KIDE&feature=related
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php?t=ns&n=97
Dearest Lord, You've called us here,
And opened up Your heart.
O the joy to hear Your call
And enter in the Ark.
Saving us from day to day
O Lord, this is Your way.
In Yourself we stay afloat,
Above this wicked age today.

(Chorus)
Thank You Lord, in Your eyes we find grace,
And with open hearts we come to You.
Regardless what our friends might say to us or do,
O Lord Jesus, we love You.

Seeking of this age to taste,
And of it have a part.
If we only knew, dear Lord,
The ways we grieve Your heart.
We would come and turn to You
With a repenting heart,
And would give ourselves to be
With you, O Lord, inside the Ark.

Praise You Lord, we're safe in You;
Outside death-waters pour.
Many things that I once loved
Are on the ocean floor.
Keep us open to you Lord,
Don't let us miss the mark.
Hallelujah, praise the Lord,
We're here within the church, the Ark.

I live, if you stand firm in the Lord





You live, if I stand firm in the Lord. This is the church life! Everyone is so precious and necessary. Hence, don't be a loner. Be knit together and joined together (Ephesians 4:16).
http://online.recoveryversion.org/FootNotes.asp?FNtsID=6439


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZBDeI4uN4A
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/117
1. I'm thankful that God has placed me
With you to build up His Body.
Christ in you is the hope for me!
You also need Christ lived in me..

I live, if you stand firm in the Lord.
You live, if I stand firm in the Lord.
My going on is for you,
Your going on is for me,
Not sep'rate entities,
I need you saints desp'rately!

2. Oh, what a sweet church life have we!
Built up in Him, His bride to be!
In Him steadfast, you help me be;
Encouraged by Christ whom I see.

3. Your faith in Christ helps me pursue;
My progress depends upon you!
As I seek Christ, with you in view,
My heart, full of prayers, is for you.

4. God's heart longs, desires that we,
His lovers, seek Him corp'rately.
On each other spent constantly;
My life is for you, yours for me.

5. I want to encourage you all,
Without your supply I would fall.
Never think that your Christ is small.
Christ needs you, and so do we all

my God, my portion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3U8g7R-GPM
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/nt/600
1. My God, my Portion, and my Love,
My everlasting All,
I've none but Thee in heav'n above,
Or on this earthly ball.
What empty things are all the skies,
And this inferior clod!
There's nothing here deserves my joys,
There's nothing like my God.

2. To Thee I owe my wealth, and friends,
And health, and safe abode;
Thanks to Thy name for meaner things,
But they are not my God.
How vain a toy is glittering wealth,
If once compared to Thee!
Or what's my safety, or my health,
Or all my friends to me.

3. Were I possessor of the earth,
And called the stars my own,
Without Thy graces and Thyself,
I were a wretch undone.
Let others stretch their arms like seas,
And grasp in all the shore;
Grant me the visits of Thy grace,
And I desire no more.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Turn your eyes upon Jesus


Switch on your inner eyes (Ephesians 1:18) as you are shutting off your outer eyes (Genesis 3:7).

Look away unto Jesus (Hebrews 12:2)!


http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/645
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO4uIyz_d90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPydzU80jFA&feature=related
1. O soul, are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness you see?
There's light for a look at the Savior,
And life more abundant and free.

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,

And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,

In the light of His glory and grace.


2. Through death into life everlasting
He passed, and we follow Him there;
O'er us sin no more hath dominion
For more than conqu'rors we are!

3. His Word shall not fail you, He promised;
Believe Him and all will be well;
Then go to a world that is dying,
His perfect salvation to tell!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Lord, I believe

Link

Don't be troubled by whatever condition you are in right now. Whether it be good or bad, it will pass. Don't be over run by anxieties. Just look away unto Jesus and enjoy His presence everyday. Christians living seems ordinary, but the daily divine dispensing is extra-ordinary. Enjoy this hymn and be at peace. Amen.

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php?t=ns&n=209
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyXvYe7prWQ&feature=related
1. Lord now I see,
You only want me to believe
Not to change.
In all my failures and defeats
To believe what You have done,
And not in what I see.

2. Lord I believe,
When all around me is defeat
And it seems that nothing's changing outwardly.
No! I'm not discouraged,
I'm believing You.

3. Yes, I believe,
And there is no demand on me.
Simple faith, yes, that is all You want from me.
Freed from anxious doubting—
I'm free to just believe!

4. Believing You,
Because, Lord, You are my success!
When I fail, all I must do is just confess,
And go on enjoying You—
I love believing You!

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Nearer each day


God is near (Romans 10:8). Even He is in us (John 14:20), dispensing God's life and nature into our whole being.

As we are receiving Him, we are being made just like Him gradually. One day, even people around us will sense God's presence through us. Let your forbearance be known to all men. The Lord is near. (Philippians 4:5)

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/199
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZzjCY6qc1c&feature=related
1. Nearer each day to me,
Dearer each day to me,
This Person inside me is
Becoming reality.
Saving me, loving me,
Faith and hope giving me.
You're all the world to me Jesus, my Lord.

2. Even when faith is small,
When there's no hope at all,
I hear Him say to me,
Trust in Me and you'll see,
That I'll supply all your needs,
If only you will believe.
All anxious doubts will cease,
While trusting in Me.

Wherever you go, I will go




Ruth made a choice to follow Naomi. This is what she said to Naomi in Ruth 1:16-17

...For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you dwell, I will dwell; and your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die; and there will I be buried. ...

As a result, Ruth took part in the first coming of Christ.

Who is Naomi? Naomi is someone who has been fully dealt with by God through her failures and weaknesses (Ruth 1:20). Paul was fully dealt with by the Lord so that he may betroth us to Christ (2 Corinthians 11:2).

Lot made a wrong choice. As a result, he lost his participation in God's economy (Genesis 13:11-12).

Enjoy the following hymn and choose the path of life to bring in the 2nd coming of Christ, our Bridegroom (Revelation 19:7):

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/lb/75
Wherever you go, I will go,
Wherever you dwell, I will dwell;
Your people will be my people,
And your God will be my God.
Wherever you go, I will go,
Wherever you dwell, I will dwell;
Your people will be my people,
And your God will be my God.
Wherever you die, I will die;
And there will I be buried.
Jehovah do to me, and more as well,
If anything but death parts me from you.
Jehovah do to me, and more as well,
If anything but death parts me from you.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Lord, to know Thee as the Body


God's will can not be done by human efforts (Matthew 7:22-23). His will, which is His kingdom, can only be fulfilled through the Body of Christ. Christ is the Head; Christ is also the Body, who is the church, the extension and enlargement of the Head. Yes, Christ and the church, what a great mystery (Genesis 2:21-23, John 19:34, Ephesians 5:32)!

May the Lord renew our thinking and harmonize our feelings so that we would exercise our choosing to willingly choose His blessed will - the Body of Christ. Amen!
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/1225
  1. Lord, to know Thee as the Body,
    Is my desperate need today,
    Oh, to see Thee in Thy members,
    'Tis for this I long and pray.
    No more just to know Thy headship
    In an individual way,
    But to see Thee incarnated,
    As the Body-Christ, I pray.

  2. Through the years, Thy saints have sought Thee,
    Longing for reality;
    Gazing upward, searching inward,
    Thirsting for the sight of Thee.
    Now reveal that Christ in heaven,
    Is the Body manifest;
    And the Christ who dwells within us
    As the Body is expressed.

  3. Prone to be misled, I know it,
    By my lofty thoughts of Thee,
    Easy 'tis for self to seek Thee,
    Yet not touch reality,
    Oh, how much I need to find Thee,
    In Thy members here below.
    God eternal dwells among us,
    Manifest in flesh to know.

  4. Limit, Lord, my independence,
    Let me to Thy Body turn;
    Not just seeking light from heaven,
    But the church's sense to learn.
    May we be the stones for building
    Not the formless, useless clay,
    Gain in us Thy heart's desire
    Corporately Thyself display.

My heart was far from You



Isaiah 6:5 - I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.


Job 42:5-6 - I have heard of You by the hearing of the ears, but now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php?t=lb&n=33
My heart was far from You.
My worship was not true.
My lips were honoring Thee
But I was so empty.
Lord, help me! Have mercy!
Lord, now deliver me!
All else is vanity.
You are reality!

Traditions are a lie.
Mere practice can't satisfy.
No matter how hard you try
Inside you feel so dry.
Lord water me! I'm so thirsty!
I come to drink of Thee.
You are the Spirit of life
To free me from all strive.

The doctrines and the creeds
Have never met my needs.
The letters have killed me dead
My need is Living Bread.
Lord, feed me! I'm so hungry!
I come to eat of Thee.
Your Person now I can take.
The Living Word partake.

I need You desperately
To get You into me!
I drink You as the Spirit, Lord,
And eat You in the Word.
I'm satisfied! And You're testified!
There is no lack in Thee.
You are the river and the tree,
My feast eternally.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Oh, sanctify us, Lord!


You therefore shall be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Mathew 5:48)

Be full of compassion, even as your Father also is full of compassion. (Luke 6:36)

...We know that if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is. (1 John 3:2)

Pray according to God's intention. (Don't pray according to your idea.) Pray so that God will make us the same as He is. Pray so that God will gain His many sons as God's glorious expression - the church.

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/1135
1. Oh, sanctify us, Lord; now add Thyself to us,
In our experience, Thy Person spread in us,
That in reality the church be glorious,
O Lord, do add Thyself, we pray.
* Oh, sanctify us, Lord, today;
Lord Jesus, You're the only way.
We take Your Person, Lord;
Oh, spread Yourself abroad.
Oh, sanctify us, Lord, today.

3. O Lord, do nourish us; You are the food we need;
As we are eating You, we'll be transformed indeed;
We're fully satisfied as on Yourself we feed,
So nourish us, O Lord, we pray.
* O Lord, do nourish us today
As all our self You wash away.
Not only purify,
But fill and satisfy;
O Lord, do nourish us today.

5. Lord, make us glorious, by all Your inner work,
Not glory for ourselves, but glory for the church;
That You may have Your Bride, thus ending all Your search.
O Lord, do work on us, we pray.
* O Lord, do work on us today!
To form the church Your glorious way.
Oh, spread Yourself in us
Till we are glorious;
Oh, make us glorious, Lord, today.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Dear Lord, Thou art my best love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAJkezuz650&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlM0yRndVM0&feature=related

http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/351
Dear Lord Jesus, Thou'rt my best love,
Thou hast fully captured my heart;
None in heaven nor on earth is like Thee,
With Thy beauty none can compete.
When Thy voice first came to my ears,
To my heart entered words most dear;
All past loves and seekings decreased for Thee,
All my boasts have now disappeared.

    • Who'd compare with Thee, so fair and comely?
      Who'd compare with Thee, so sweet and lovely?
      Only Thou art worthy my love to win,
      O Lord Jesus, How I love Thee!

      No more I who live, No more self-deceit,
      No more in the self-world indulged to be,
      Deeply now I know only Thou'rt my love,
      My best love is none else but Thee!

我深知祢是我惟一所愛
http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/351c

主耶穌祢是我至愛,祢奪取了我這顆心,
天地間無何可與祢比擬,祢全然美麗無可比。
當祢聲音給我聽見,柔聲細語在我心中;
前所愛、所求,都因祢消減,我所誇的今都成空。

(副)
世間有誰像祢如此美麗?世間有誰像祢如此甜蜜?
只有祢是配來得著我愛,主耶穌我深深愛祢!
不再照己意不願再受欺,不願再沉迷於己的天地;
我深知惟有祢是我所愛,我惟一的最愛是祢。
(FTTJ 05)

Best love for the Lord


  • Loving You, Lord's all I'm living for;
    Loving You, Lord, to the uttermost.
    Lord, forgive me if I've left my first love,
    That's the bridal love to You.
    You are more than any one I love.
    You are more than anything I have,
    Even my dear self; nothing can compare
    To my beloved Bridegroom.
    • I give You the first place in all things by faith.
      Let nothing take Your place in all my heart.
      Infuse me with Yourself abundantly
      'Til we meet, dear Lord.
      I'll love You with the best love.

    Thursday, July 8, 2010

    Immanuel - God with us

    Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive and will bear a son, and she will call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23)

    Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you all the days until the consummation of the age. (Matthew 28:19-20)

    Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His peoples, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. (Revelation 21:3)

    Christ is Immanuel - God with us. He is our Savior, Redeemer, Life-giver and indwelling Spirit. Actually the content of the entire New Testament is an Immanuel (Matthew 1:23; 18:20; 28:20, Revelation 21:3), and all the believers in Christ, as the members of Christ, are a part of this great Immanuel, the corporate Christ. which will consummate in the New Jerusalem. (2010 Summer Training, Message #5, II.G)

    http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/63
    1. Christ is God incarnated,
    Born according to God's plan
    To bring divinity, into humanity,
    By mingling with man.

    Christ is God incarnated,
    He became the Son of Man;
    A man of flesh yet without sin,
    Accomplishing redemption,
    He was a perfect man.

    * And He shall be named Jesus,

    And called Emmanuel,
    Hallelujah! God with us,

    In man He came to dwell.

    2. Christ is God incarnated,
    How wonderful! How marvellous!
    Incarnated so that He could
    Live inside of you and me,
    He's mingling now with us.

    Christ is God incarnated,
    He became the first God-man.
    Oh! How glorious!
    Now He lives inside of us,
    Fulfilling God's great plan.

    Wednesday, July 7, 2010

    Partakers of God's nature

    (1) Then a sprout will come forth from the stump of Jesse, ...
    (2) And the Spirit of Jehovah will rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah.
    (6) And the wolf will dwell with the lamb; And the leopard will lie down with the kid, ...
    (7) The cow and the bear will graze; ...; And the lion will eat straw like the ox.
    (8) The nursing child will play by the cobra's hole, ...
    (9) ... For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah, ... (Isaiah 11:1-9)

    Because the church life is a foretaste of the coming age, what will happen in Isaiah 11 should be among us today as a foretaste; among us there should be no "wolves", "leopards", "bears", "lions", and "vipers". (2010 Summer Training, Message #7, II.H)

    We were wild, self-centered, individualistic, rebellious, ambitious, independent, and negative, but now we have become partakers of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). The Potter (Isaiah 29:16, Romans 9:21) is shaping us up to be meek, obedient, peaceful, joyful, pleasant, life-giving, harmonious, Christ-centered and Body-conscious. Awesome!

    http://www.hymnal. net/hymn. php/ns/290
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgHChEH-Uvk
    http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/ns/290c/gb=1
    1. Your love and beauty has drawn me;
    To run after You lovingly.
    In Your chambers I am brought,
    Nourished by You, dear Lord.
    * My Beloved, I belong to You.
    My love, you're so beautiful.
    We're the same in life and in nature,
    United in love forever.

    2. I partake of Your nature divine,
    I enjoy Your divine life to shine.
    Renewed in submission sweet,
    Rise up with You to meet.

    3. Viewing You like a dove uniquely,
    Trusting You singly as a lily.
    Transformed and built up to be
    Your rest and joy wholly.

    4. Let us go to the fields, my Beloved,
    Working here with You, Lord, in love.
    Your queen longs to be matured,
    And hopes to be raptured.
    * Set me as a seal on Your heart,
    In Your love, keep me—ne'er apart.
    Lord, make haste, I long for Your coming,
    Come quickly, Beloved, we're waiting!

    Here is the Chinese version: http://www.hymnal. net/hymn. php/ns/290c

    Tuesday, July 6, 2010

    Great Light - Great Salvation


    (2) ...Upon those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death
    Light has shined. (3) You have multiplied the nation; You have increased their gladness; ... (4) For You break the yoke of their burden And the staff on their shoulder, ... (Isaiah 9:2-4) ...那些住在死蔭之地的人,有光照耀他們。你使這國民繁多,加增他們的喜樂;...因為他們所負的重軛和肩頭上的杖,就是欺壓他們之人的棍,你已經折斷...

    When God in Christ as the Spirit shines in us,
    darkness is expelled;

    our real condition is exposed;
    all the germs are killed;

    we are healed;
    we are enlivened;

    we are released from our bondage;
    we are supplied, comforted and encouraged;
    we are revived, restored, and reconstituted;
    even we are becoming light! (Matthew 5:14, Ephesians 5:8, Revelation 21:24)

    O how great His salvation!

    (A little overflow from the 2010 summer training, Message #6)

    http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/1065
    1. O how great His salvation!
    O how great His salvation!
    O how great His salvation!
    Jesus saves me now!

    * Jesus breaks every fetter!

    Jesus breaks every fetter!
    Jesus breaks every fetter!
    Jesus sets me free!

    4. I will sing Hallelujah!
    I will sing Hallelujah!
    I will sing Hallelujah!
    Jesus shines in me!

    Jesus Lord, You're our first love


    But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him. (1 Corinthians 8:3)
    但若有人愛神,這人乃是神所知道的。

    Enjoy this hymn and memorize the 1st stanza. Sing it to the Lord. Amen.

    http://www.hymnal. net/hymn. php/ns/118
    1. Jesus Lord, You're our first love;
    You're the One
    we love the best.

    When our heart is loving You,

    How we're filled with Your sweet rest!

    2. Lord, we love You for Yourself,
    Not for what You give or do.
    Nothing else could e'er compare
    With the joy of loving You.

    * Lord, we've been drawn off by many things;

    Now we turn our heart back—how it sings!

    We repent of loving other things—

    Jesus, Lord, You're our first love.


    3. Never more could we desire
    Anything that's less than You,
    And to this we would aspire—
    Simply to be filled with You.

    4. Jesus Lord, You're our first love;
    You're the One we love the best.
    When our heart is loving You,
    How we're filled with Your sweet rest!

    Here is the Chinese version. http://www.hymnal. net/hymn. php/ts/316