Week 1

Calling upon the name of the Lord, enjoying the riches of Christ

Hymn enjoyment this week: #1, #2

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness. (John 4:24)
...Thus declares Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him, (Zechariah 12:1)

Monday key point: The origin of our spirit is God; our human spirit is created by God to fulfill the purpose of God's creation. Further reading.

The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the innermost parts of the inner being. (Proverbs 20:27)
The Lord be with your spirit. (2 Timothy 4:22)

Tuesday key point: Our spirit is a vessel for contacting and containing the Spirit of God. We should exercise to stop our soul and use our spirit.Further reading.

The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45)
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. (1Corinthians 6:17)

Wednesday key point: Christ is now the life-giving Spirit in our human spirit as our life and life supply. We need to establish the habit of exercising our spirit.Further reading.

To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, the called saints, with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, (1 Corinthians 1:2)
For the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him. (Romans 10:12)

Thursday key point: The Lord's name is His person who is the all-inclusive Spirit. Calling upon His name is the way to enjoy Him. Further reading.

Always rejoice, Unceasingly pray, In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-19)
As the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me. (John 6:57)

Friday key point: Calling upon the name of the Lord is to pray with our spirit, our spiritual breathing.Further reading.

But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. (2 Timothy 2:22)
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all who call upon Him. For whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 1012-13)

Saturday key point: Calling upon the Lord's name enables us to experience His dear presence with His abundant supply.Further reading,

Week 2

Judicial Redemption & Organic Salvation

Hymn enjoyment this week: #1, #2

And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; (Genesis 1:26)
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name. (John 1:12)

Monday key point: God's complete salvation has two aspects - judicial aspect and organic aspect. Further reading.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving-kindness and truth go before Your face. (Psalms 89:14)
For Christ also has suffered once for sins, the Righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God, (1 Peter 3:18)

Tuesday key point: God's righteousness is God's way of doing things. His salvation has to be righteous.Further reading.

…much more we will be saved in His life, having been reconciled, (Romans 5:11)
And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect. (Romans 12:2)

Wednesday key point: The judicial aspect of God's salvation is based on God's righteousness; the organic aspect is through God's life.Further reading.

who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:13)
He who believes into the Son has eternal life; (John 3:36)
Not out of works in righteousness which we did but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. (Titus 3:5)

Thursday key point: Regeneration is the center of God's complete salvation; regeneration is also the beginning of the organic salvation.Further reading.

But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:18)
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. (2 Corinthians 4:16)

Friday key point: Transformation is the metabolism through God's life within believers. Though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.Further reading.

I write to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you because of His name. (1 John 2:12)
I have written these things to you that you may know that you have eternal life, to you who believe into the name of the Son of God (1 John 5:13)
We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brothers. (1 John 3:14)

Saturday key point: Evidences of our salvation include the word of God, Spirit's witness within our spirit, and our love for one another. Further reading.

Week 3

Word of life and pray-reading the word

Hymn enjoyment this week: #1, #2

…the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. (John 6:63)
You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is these that testify concerning Me. (John 5:39)

Monday key point: As we are receiving the word of God by faith, we need to come to the Lord through His word. Further reading.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)
All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. (2 Timothy 3:16)

Tuesday key point: The Bible is the word of life, breathing out of God as God's explanation, declaration and expression.Further reading.

…Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God. (Matthew 4:4)
As newborn babes, long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation, (2 Peter 2:2)

Wednesday key point: God's word is our food and life supply. It is by His word we grow unto salvation.Further reading.

It is the Spirit who gives life,…the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. (John 6:63)
... and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)

Thursday key point: We don't approach God's word with our intelligence. Instead, we come to touch God's word with our regenerated spirit.Further reading.

And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit... (Ephesians 6:17-18)

Friday key point: Through reading and praying, praying and reading, we contact God and enjoy God's presence.Further reading.

How sweet are Your words to my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! (Psalms 119:103)
May be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are, (Ephesians 3:18)

Saturday key point: We need to pray-read God's word with other Christians. Four secrets when we pray-read with others: quick, short, genuine, and fresh. Further reading.

Week 4

God's revelation and move in His Trinity

Hymn enjoyment this week: #1, #2

…that there is no God but one. (1 Corinthians 8:4)
Go therefore and disciple nations, baptizing them into the name of Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19)

Monday key point: God is one and three (Father Son and Spirit).

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever, Even the Spirit of reality. (John 14:16-17)
The Grace of Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of Holy Spirit be with you all. (2 Corinthians 13:14)

Tuesday key point: Father, Son and Spirit co-exist from eternity past to eternity future.

Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and you have not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father, how is it you said that, Show us the Father? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and Father is in Me? (John 14:9-10)
But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of reality, who proceeds from Father,.. (John 15:26)

Wednesday key point: Father, Son and Spirit co-inhere within one another and never separate.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: ….: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)
… the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45)
And the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of Lord is, there is freedom. (2 Corinthians 3:17)

Thursday key point: Father, Son and Spirit are one (Son = Father = Spirit), so that we may receive Him and enjoy Him.

And He has said to me, My grace is sufficient to you,.. (2 Corinthians 12:9)
The grace of Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2 Corinthians 13:14)

Friday key point: God desires to dispense Himself into us in His Trinity. We can experience and enjoy God in His Trinity.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, (2 Timothy 3:16)
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him. (Ephesians 1:17)

Saturday key point: God's revelation and move in His Trinity: God's speaking became the written word; God's word transmits to us His divine revelation; God moves according to His revelation; God's move is for the fulfillment of His eternal economy.

Week 5

God's economy and Christians' consecration

Hymn enjoyment this week: #1, #2, #3

Making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Himself, unto the economy of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ, ... (Ephesians 1:9-10)
So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, (Ephesians 2:19)

Monday key point: Christians who love the Lord must understand God's plan and arrangement - God's economy.

And to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things, in order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of God might be made known through the church, according to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord, (Ephesians 3:9-11)

Tuesday key point: The center of God's work throughout the generations is to complete His eternal economy. His economy is to dispense Himself in His Trinity into His chosen people to produce the church as God's kingdom, which will issue in the ultimate expression - New Jerusalem.

And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. (John 1:14)
"The first man, Adam, became a living soul''; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45)
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be. 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)

Wednesday key point: God became a Man. Then He became the life-giving Spirit to dispense Himself as life into men for His eternal economy.

For you have been bought with a price. So then glorify God in your body. (1 Corinthians 6:20)
For the love of Christ constrains us because we have judged this, that One died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all that those who live may no longer live to themselves but to Him who died for them and has been raised. (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)
I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1)

Thursday key point: God loves us, so He paid a hefty price to purchase us back. Hence, we ought to love Him back by consecrating ourselves to Him for His economy.

And He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'' This is the great and first commandment. (Matthew 22:37-38)
And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done shall also be told as a memorial of her. (Mark 14:9)

Friday key point: We need to love the Lord with all our heart and with all our soul, just like Mary. This is a noble deed.

...all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28)
But as it is written, "Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard and which have not come up in man's heart; things which God has prepared for those who love Him.'' (1 Corinthians 2:9)
Whom having not seen, you love; into whom though not seeing Him at present, yet believing, you exult with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, (1 Peter 1:8)

Saturday key point: Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility.

Week 6

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