Amen and Amen

In the recent fellowship with a  brother, though the response from the saints was not initially strong, that became a trigger point to bring forth the need to exercise our spirit in the meeting and receive the ministry of the word with resounding amens and amens. This is not a religious declaration nor a ritualist formality. But a genuine agreement in one accord with the word that has been ministered. A proper Christian meeting should not be uni-directional but multi-directional. The minister ministers the word, and the recipients receive the word not merely as coming from the minister but in agreement with the minister himself. Meaning, the minister's ministry of the words is the ministered ministry of the word too. It is only that one minister and the other receives and the recipients too minister by being one with the minister himself. Therefore, the ministry of the word is multi-directional. Though in a ministry message meeting, one seems to minister, actually all ministers together in oneness with the one who ministers. The minister and the ministered are all one. The minister may minister according to the Lord's burden imparted to him, but all the saints receive the ministry not merely as recipients but also in oneness with the minister by simply amening the ministry of the word. This is the significance of the saints opening their mouths wide and the Lord feeding them with His word through the minister. 

“I am Jehovah your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.” (Psalms 81:10, RecVer)

This reveals that in the church meetings during the apostle’s time, when one prayed, all the others said Amen, even “the Amen” with emphasis. 

“For as many promises of God as there are, in Him is the Yes; therefore also through Him is the Amen to God, for glory through us to God.” (2 Corinthians 1:20, RecVer)

When we say Amen before God to the fact that Christ is the Yes, the fulfillment, of all the promises of God, God is glorified through us.

In the Old Testament time too, there was the practice of saying amen to the word of God. 

“And Ezra blessed Jehovah the great God; and all the people answered, Amen, Amen, lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshipped Jehovah with their faces to the ground.” (Nehemiah 8:6, RecVer) 

So that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of faithfulness, and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of faithfulness; Because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hidden from My sight. (Isaiah 65:16)  

Lit., the God of Amen (twice in this verse); “i.e., the God who turns what He promises into Yea and Amen (2 Cor. 1:20)” (Keil and Delitzsch). Rev. 19:4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God, who sits upon the throne, saying, Amen, Hallelujah! 

I was helped to understand based on the word of God that I must exercise my spirit to receive the ministry of the word by amening the word of God. This is a sign of a normal and living  Christian meeting.

“Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the unlearned in tongues say the Amen at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?” (1 Corinthians 14:16, RecVer)

Always amen the word of God by saying, "Amen!"