The Lord's Speaking Again

Not our human plan nor we ever thought about it. But the Lord arranged this morning for us to come to a small town about 17 kms away from Kakinada. This was an impromptu arrangement. To a brother's friend's house, after 18 years meeting again. This was indeed the Lord's sovereign arrangement.

Tonight, we had a wonderful fellowship on Grace: God in Christ as the Spirit for our Christian life for the church life. Beginning with the Spirit in Genesis 1:2, comparing and contrasting with the Spirit in John 7:39. The Spirit in the Old Testament though it was the Spirit of God essentially it could not regenerate man yet, until in the New Testament, He was incarnated, passed through human living, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension and descension, and entered into men, regenerating man making them His many children possessing His divine life and nature to be His expression and representation on the earth as the church, the testimony of Jesus. 

Furthermore we fellowshipped on John 14:16, concerning the promise of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, which was fullfiled, firstly as the inward filling in John 20:22, for a Christian life and living, producing His believers (John 20:17) and secondly as the outward filling in Acts 2:4 for the Christian work for propagation and multiplication, and the issue of such filling in Holy Spirit or baptism of the Holy Spirit is to produce the church His Body, to be His corporate expression and representation as the fullfilment of God's purpose in creating man in Genesis 1:26.

We further fellowshipped on the universal and local aspect of the church, the significance of the church, the divisions caused by Satan, the Lord's heart's desire for His dwelling place, the church, the importance of oneness, and the need for the Lord to recover His testimony as the church standing on the ground of oneness as the testimony of Jesus.

The believers were so impressed by the Lord's speaking again and as we prayed together on our knees, our brother prayed for the testimony of Jesus.

We have discharged our burden, and henceforth, the Lord may continue to speak to them and grace them for the testimony of Jesus here in Samalkot. 

Grace, God in Christ as the Spirit for our experience and enjoyment is for Christ and the church.