In the Bible the basic principle concerning man’s relationship with God is that man needs to eat & drink of God. It is by eating & drinking that we take God into us, and God works Himself into us to be one with us organically. Exodus 17:1 footnote
Whenever we prepare ourselves to speak God's word, we must be assured that we have the presence of God. If we do not have this assurance, we need to pray until we have the deep sense of God's presence with us.
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“Our need is to enjoy everything that is in God. The spontaneous outcome of God becoming our enjoyment is that we will bear fruit.”
It is not that we decide to visit some brothers and sisters then kneel before the Lord to pray for them. We go before the Lord first to enjoy Him.
We have to undergo the process of being crossed out all the time by allowing the Spirit to bring us to the cross, so that the cross can issue in more of the Spirit.
Peter says that as newborn babes we all have to desire the milk of the Word that we may grow (1 Pet. 2:2). We will grow by the milk of the Word and then we will become living stones being built up a spiritual house (1 Pet. 2:5).
In spiritual matters it is much better not to act according to our choice but to leave matters in the hand of the Lord and let Him do according to His choice.
-Num.32:5note1
Our service to God in the New Testament is not in the realm of material things; therefore our reward is not in that realm. The only reward, the only compensation for our priestly and levitical service is Christ as everything to us. -Num.18:31note1
Love is the inner substance of God. When we are brought into love and the love is dispensed into us, we are entering into the inner substance of God. — R.K.