Hymn: Prayer for a Pure Heart

As we were fellowshiping on the need to have a pure heart before God and man, I was freshly enlightened to see my own need to be pure in heart. It has been from the impure ones that many problems have occurred in the church history. Especially, from gifted brothers who were full of ambition to be somebody among God’s children. The fact is, no one is born pure. It is the Lord’s mercy that we could be dealt with by Him to be pure in heart, single in purpose, knowing only to serve God by serving the church, the saints, as a slave. To have a pure heart requires a specific dealing from the Lord. This enlightenment burdened me to write this hymn as a prayer for a pure heart yesterday morning.

This matter of the need for pure in heart was further confirmed and strengthened by the Lord’s speaking personally to me in my time with Him while reading His word.

Mark 10:43-45 RecVer

43. But it is not so among you; but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant,

44. And whoever wants to be first among you shall be the slave of all.

45. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many.

Prayer: Pure in Heart

Tune: 1051 (I hear Thy welcome voice)

Meter:  6.6.8.6 with chorus

1

(Matt. 22:37; Matt. 22:30)

Lord, grant me a pure heart-

A heart that loves Thee Lord,

With all my heart, my soul, my strength, 

With all my being, Lord.

Purify my heart,

Lord, I pray to Thee. 

Wash me, cleanse me in Thy blood,

From all impurity. 

2

(Matt. 5:8)

Lord, grant me a pure heart-

A heart single in goal,

E'er seeking to glorify God,

A pure heart that sees God.

3

(1 Pet. 1:22)

Lord, grant me a pure heart-

To love Thee with first love,

Love one another fervently, 

With Thy love, as Thou love.

4

(2 Cor. 4:16; Eph. 4;23; Matt. 6:10)

Lord, grant me a pure heart-

A mind renewed daily, 

A will to do Thy perfect will,

Emotion that loves Thee.

5

(Heb. 9:14; 10:22; 13:18; 1 Pet. 3:16, 21)

Lord, grant me a pure heart-

A conscience pure and good,

A conscience, cleansed, without offense,

Pure before man and God.

Blending in Badvel

Today, the 30th August 2026, as the ministry literature distribution in Rayalaseema region in Andhra Pradesh was about to begin, we enjoyed a one day blending meeting of the churches in this region. The initial plan was for three local churches, however, more saints from other localities also wanted to join. Therefore, about 150 saints from seven localities blended together in sweet oneness and one accord!

As the brother requested me to minister the word, I looked to the Lord for His timely anointed word. The Lord spoke based on the need to see the vision of the age in Proverbs 29:18.

Proverbs 29:18 RecVer

Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law.

We traced the vision of the age in the Bible. The work that God did at a particular age from the time of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Enoch, and Noah in the Old Testament, and the work God carried out in the four Gospels through the Lord Jesus Christ, and from the time of the book of Acts till today, what God has been doing in this age; the building up of the Body of Christ. 

To build up the Body of Christ, the necessary requirement for the believers is to be dealt with in the natural man so that the humanity of Jesus can be lived out, and the way for such a living of Christ was ministered. Using the life of Job and Moses, the way to be dealt with by God until we realise we are nothing and good for nothing, arrive at our end so that God can have a new beginning, and be gained by God for the building up of the Body of Christ were ministered. An emphasis on Ephesians 4:1-3; 7-10, 11-12 for a walk worthy of our calling with the humanity of Jesus through the experiences of the death and resurrection of Jesus was also ministered. Thus, the burden the Lord anointed was ministered. Afterwhich, many saints prophesied on how the Lord showed them the vision and the way to fulfill the vision in preparing their persons through the experiences of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the building up of the Body of Christ. 

We all enjoyed the Lord's timely speaking for His move in Badvel and the surrounding localities. 

The blending meeting was held in a newly constructed meeting hall cum house built by a brother and his wife who are both serving in government jobs. They built the house out of the God blessed provisions. This itself is a testimony of their love and offering for Christ and His Church. 

After the meeting, five housewives who were seeking to know God came requesting for prayer. The Lord led me to preach the gospel to them instead, led them to believe into the Lord Jesus and receive the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal God and Savior. Then, as requested, I also prayed for their experiences of salvation and growth in life and their household salvation. 

Later, a brother, touched by the Lord’s speaking today wanted to be baptised. After reviewing the Scriptures on seven important significances of baptism, he was baptised!

Finally, we had a time of gospel preaching and shepherding meeting with a family. 

Thus, the day concluded with me spending time reading Life-study on Revelation with the saints in my locality, Gurugram, and a time of prayer with my son and daughter and enjoying their sharings of what they shared today in the church meeting.

Praise the Lord for this day, a day filled with the ministry of the word, gospel preaching, baptism, prayers, sharing, and shepherding! Hallelujah!

Choose Life and Blessing

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 RecVer

19. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today: I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that you and your seed may live,

20. In loving Jehovah your God by listening to His voice and holding fast to Him; for He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell upon the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Last Tuesday afternoon after the four and half days of training, a brother and I visited an old classmate of ours who is a resident of Hyderabad. Our last meeting was last year when we had a similar training in Hyderabad. Whenever we could, we tried our best to meet and fellowship on whatever point the Lord burdend us with.

This time, on the first day of the training, out of the blue, I simply asked a brother to call this classmate of ours. Then, an appointment was made for Tuesday. Yet, I had another plan, to study Hebrew lessons and clear my midterm exam. However, after further consideration, I decided to visit this brother instead, and postponed my Hebrew learning for some other day. The decision I took was worth it. For, it was not easy to come here often, and whenever we did, we should not miss the opportunity to visiting acquaintances and minister life. 

In our last visit, I fellowshipped with my brother's chidren on reading the Bible and prayer. This time, the burden released was on a continuation of the same, but with an emphasis on choosing life and blessing through the pursuit of the word of God. It was a wonderful and fruitful time of brotherly and friendly shepherding visit. Though the journey took one and half hour each, to and fro, it was worth it. We were sowing seed of the word of God to young souls and seeking family. One day, in God’s time, the harvest will be reapt.

As was ministered, I believe, we did choose life and blessing in paying the price to visit this family. 

Choose life and blessing in loving Jehovah and listening to His words.

Blessed Are Our Eyes That Sees

Luke 10:21-24 RecVer

21. In that hour He exulted in the Holy Spirit and said, I extol You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to babes. Yes, Father, for thus it has been well pleasing in Your sight.

22. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and him to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

23. And turning to the disciples, He said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see.

24. For I tell you that many prophets and kings have wanted to perceive the things that you see, and have not perceived them, and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.

God, the Father, in His sovereign wisdom is pleased to reveal the heavenly and spiritual vision to me as well. In last nine days in Hyderabad, I had the privilege of attending the brothers training for four and a half days, then a full day fellowship on the Lord’s move in our country, and another two and a half days of full-timers training. In all these nine days, the Lord has been pleased to reveal the deep and hidden things in His heart.

In fact, God revealed Himself to us through the fellowship of the word in spirit. His light shown on us that we could see and know our own self, see the vision and revelation of God and His work in the present age, and the need for us to be perfected to participate in His building work of His Body, He also showed us His leading by revelation and experience to constitute us as His New Testament ministers. He also bestowed on us the grace to be His gifted members to build up His Body to bring Him back.

Therefore, blessed indeed are our eyes that saw what He has shown us to see. He has hidden these things to many, but to us, He is pleased to reveal. What a grace! What a mercy!

Every day, I was enlivened by the Lord’s speaking to the extent that I wrote an article on "Knowing God and Knowing Self," followed by two hymns, and on the ninth day, another hymn on "Pure in Heart." Only when the Lord enlightened me and gave me the burden and the words, I would write hymns. The fact that I was led to write hymns are signs of seeing something new and deep. In fact, I had not been writing hymns for quite sometime until the Lord’s fresh shining and speaking this time.

Praise the Lord for His divine revelation! Blessed indeed are our eyes that sees what He has shown us!

Lesson from Character Crisis

Last week, I received calls and texts messages from serving ones in one of our offices in the South. The message was loud and clear, to summarise it, a character crisis. Due to the character problems of the serving ones comprising loose talks, hidden ambition, pride, temper and anger, a full blown crisis broke out causing panic and shock in the office. It was very unbecoming of the serving ones to fall into uncontrolled anger. Though I received reports about the incident from both the parties, I kept the matter to myself and my co-working brother, and meanwhile brought the matter to the Lord in prayer and careful consideration. It was natural for me to act immediately and take action, but I dared not trust my natural man. I prefer to defer the matter for a latter time as I needed time to pray over amd consider carefully before taking any action. Lest I fall into the same trap of Satan in dealing the flesh with the flesh. The flesh must not be dealt with the flesh. The flesh must be dealt with the Spirit.

Later in the afternoon, I had a time of fellowship with my co-working brother and had direct calls over the phone with the concerned persons. After hearing them all, we left the matter to be considered more as we would be meeting some more brothers in the following weekend training in Hyderabad. 

In the following weekend, we had a time of fellowship with the responsible brothers of the church where the incidents took place and considerd the matter carefully. We all felt good for one of the brothers to personally check with the serving one concerned about his personal and psychological well being. Though we intended to take some strict action, we would wait for a proper time to execute it.

Meanwhile, I also received messages of apology and description of how the indecent transpired. I have forwared the messages and conveyed the same to my co-working brother.

This was a good test case for me in handling crisis. First thing is, I acknowledged the fact that I cannot solve the problem and therefore, bring the matter to the Lord in prayer and also to the brothers concerned in fellowship. My greatest concern for myself is, I should not misrepresent God. If God has to fire the one concerned, I would do so. If God has to forgive and retain him, I will also do so. Until I heard from the supreme Judge, God Himself, I would wait and wait. Once the decision is made clear, I would simple pronounce the decision, whatever it may be, as from God.

For to some extent, I have learned not to live my life, but to take the life of Christ as my life. This character crisis involving our serving ones is a good examination for me. I pray that I learn the lesson I need to learn.

As the decision on action to be taken is still awaited, I wait in prayer. Meanwhile, I pray for the Lord to perfect all of us in our humanity that we can indeed live out the humanity of Christ. 

Lord, have mercy on us and perfect us in our living and service.

The Humanity of Jesus

Ephesians 4:1-2 RecVer

1. I beseech you therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

2. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love.

God's heart's desire is to build up the Body of Christ. For this, He need materials for His building. The materials are the regenerated and transformed believers. There are many regenerated believers indeed, but how many of these ones have cooperated with God to deny their soul life, take up the cross, and follow the Lord? This refers to the need for a proper humanity, the humanity of Jesus gained through years of experiences of the Lord, and thus been transformed.

All these years of my life, I have realised that one of the biggest hindrances in a believers life is the lack of proper humanity. Put it other way, the person or the being of the ones concerned is what matters most. Because of lack of proper humanity, many saints are not growing. Instead, they become problematic and causes trouble in their own personal life, marriage life, work life, and even in many cases, the church life too. I have been observing this scenario in the lives of some brothers known to me. Even to some of these ones, I dare not stretch my hand to do any thing, for I know I don't have the maturity or the anointing to do so. The only thing I can do for such ones is, to pray for them that Lord may have mercy on them that they may realise their wickedness, repent, and cooperate with the Holy Spirit's transforming work in their lives.

These days, as we are in a full-timers training in Hyderabad, the Lord’s speaking has also been on this line; the need for a proper humanity. For the building up of the Body of Christ, the first requirement is the humanity of Jesus. If the believers are not transformed and their humanity is not the humanity of Jesus, they are not qualified to build the Body. The way, therefore, is to see that one's humanity is worthless, than abhor it, open to the Lord to receive the Lord’s divine dispensing with His divine life and nature, eat the humanity of Jesus by eating Jesus through the word day by day, and through the discipline of the Holy Spirit making all the words real to the believers. In this way, the humanity of Jesus will be wrought in the believers, who then, will live out Jesus' humanity as in Ephesians 4: 2 and 3.

Ephesians 4:2-3 RecVer

2. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love,

3. Being diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

Job of the Old Testament is a good example of a natural man dealt with by God through outward circumstances and consumeed in his natural goodness. Then, Gid further dealt with him to open his eyes to see God, in addition to all the hearings of God. 

Likewise, today, we all need the stripping and consuming of our natural man, and then the filling of the divine life with the divine nature to be reconstituted with God like an Acacia wood overlaid with gold. Only this transformed humanity can be used for the building up of the Body of Christ. 

May the Lord grant us all the proper humanity to serve Him in the way He wants us to serve Him. 

Hymn: Asking and Abiding

A fellowship with a brother on prayer especially concerning the words of the Lord in John 14, 15, 16, 17 where the Lord Jesus specifically asked his disciples to ask Him, "Ask Me." Based on this, the following hymn was composed.

Prayer: Abiding in the Lord

Tune: Sweet Hour of Prayer

Enlightened by and through the fellowship of Br. RC, and based on the fellowship today at Hyderabad 22 Aug 2026, this hymn was composed, a hymn on prayer.

1

(John 15:4,5,16)

"Abide in Me, Abide in Me."

Jesus, to us, Thy loving charge.

Cause us, Lord, to abide in Thee,

Deal our soul life, and our self purge.

Thou art the Vine, we are Thine branch,

Thou set us forth to bear Thee fruits.

Abide in Thee, Lord, cause us to

Bear remaining, abundant fruits.

2

(John 14:13,14; 15:7,16; 16:23,24,26)

"Ask in My name, Ask in My name."

Jesus, 'tis Thine loving command.

In Thy Person, in life, nature,

Abide in Thee, as Thou demand.

In mind, in will, in emotion,

Lord, one with Thee, in one spirit.

We ask Thee Lord, gain us fully;

Abide in Thee, by Thy Spirit.

3

(Phil. 4:6, James 4:8; Col. 3:15)

We ask Thee, Lord, teach us to pray, 

According to Thy will, Thy words:

No anxiety, no double soul,

No doubting mind, no blabbling words;

In obedience, in submission

To Thee, Thy word, and Thy Body;

In discerning, in deciding, 

In one with Thee. Lord, we ask Thee!

4

(Rev. 8:3,4; 1 John 2:27; Matt. 11:28-30)

Teach us to pray, persistently:

Praying, asking, by inner sense,

Praying the burdens Thou bestow-- 

Sweet fragrance of burning incense,

Praying, caring the peace within,

Fill with insight, full of foresight,

Praying by inner anointing.

And thus, winning Thy heart's delight.

5

(Ezekiel 36:35; Isaiah 45:11)

"Inquire of Me, Inquire of Me."

Thou, Lord, command us to inquire,

'Tis to increase men like a flock.

Increase in us, Lord we inquire. 

Of Thy Son and work of Thy hands, 

Work Thyself into us th'roughly.

Do Thou through us, do Thou in us.

To fulfill Thy economy. 

Hymn: See God and Know God

On the first day of our fellowship with a brother, the Lord opened my eyes to see once again how much my eyes need to be opened to see God, and the result of seeing God is to see my self. Job was indeed perfect outwardly as God testified about him, yet, inwardly he lacked divine life and nature of God. Despite all the dealings he had gone through, he was not able to see himself. Therefore, he kept defending his integrity to all who debated or questioned him. This cycle of debate went on and on until God came and asked him questions after questions in Job 38-41 until Job realised he was nothing, knew nothing, and that God is everything. 

Job 42:1-6 RecVer

1. Then Job answered Jehovah and said,

2. I know that You can do all things / And that no purpose of Yours can be restrained.

3. Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? / Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, / Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

4. Hear now, and I will speak; / I will ask of You, and You shall inform me.

5. I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, / But now my eye has seen You;

6. Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent / In dust and ashes.

Based on the fellowship as the initiation, the following hymn was composed, with what I have understood of the word of God concerning seeing God and seeing one self.

Prayer: To See God and Know God; to See and Know Oneself 

(Enlightened by and through the fellowship of Br. RC, I wrote this hymn today, the 21 Aug 2026)

Tune: What a Friend We Have in Jesus Hymn 789

1

(Matt. 9:27; 7:5; 8:25; Eph. 1:18; John 15:26)

Son of David, Lord, have mercy!

Heal my sight that I may see!

Open my eyes, Lord, to see Thee,

All Thou art, see Thee clearly.

Son of God, enlighten my heart;

To know Thee and Thy glory,

To know the hope of Thy calling

To know Thee in reality.

2

(Psalms. 43:3-4; 133:3)

Lord, send forth Thy light and Thy truth,

Lead me to Thy holy mount.

Bring me to Thy tabernacle,

To Thy altar, to Thy fount.

Lord, there, to praise and worship Thee,

There, in oneness we're dwelling ,

There, Thy anointing bestowing,

There, Thou command Thy blessing!

3

(Exodus, Acts 7; Heb. 9-10)

Out of Egypt to wilderness,

Lead me onto Thy good land;

Red Sea crossed, then o'er to Jordan,

Lead through and through by Thy hand.

Outer court to the Holy Place, 

Passing through the riven veil,

Into to the Holy of Holies,

To live e're within the veil.

4

(Psalms 103:7; Rev.3:16-18)

Thank Thee, Father, for Thy mercy,

Revealing Thyself to me;

Thy way and Thy deeds to know Thee,

To know myself, and self to see.

Lord, I confess I am lukewarm,

Wretched, miserable, poor,

Blind and naked, I come to Thee,

Anoint my eyes, Thou to see.

5

(Job 42:5-6; Rom.8:13)

Lord, my hearing ear had heard Thee,

Lord, now, my eye has seen Thee.

Lord, I abhor myself and repent

In dust and ashes, unto Thee.

Lord, my end is Thy beginning.

Lord, my death is Thy living.

Through Thy cross by Thy Spirit,

Lord, Thou be e'er my living.

A Day in Mathura

Persecutions in North India have been gathering steam. In the midst, some of our brothers were affected while in a meeting in Mathura and were imprisoned and case filed. After over four months of imprisonment, they were bailed out. However, their belongings confiscated were not bailed out as these required another lengthy legal procedures. For these, there is a need for guarantor. 

To be one of the guarantors for one of the brothers, I was approached. I also readily agreed. Therefore, for this purpose, along with another guarantor and the brother concerned, we travelled to Mathura. 

It was a new experience for me to drive the car the Lord blessed me with, from Gurugram all the way to Mathura and back, picking and dropping our brothers in Delhi. This was an opportune time for a day's blending in the car. Meanwhile, I got to drive on the Jamuna Expressway at 100+ kmph, the permitted speed on this highway.

Yet, to our disappointment, our documents were not accepted by the court staffs with the excuse that our documents were based outside Mathura which needed a lengthy process of verification and that our original vehicle RCs were all smart cards which have no provision for marking as used, unlike the paper RC. After a long and hectic travel, our documents were returned back. It felt like our day was wasted, but the Lord gave us new experiences in standing one with and for the brothers. Though the legal purpose for which we came to Mathura was unfulfilled, the spiritual purpose of fellowshipping and blending with our fellow brothers were fulfilled. Praise the Lord!

Thank the Lord, all things indeed worked together for good.

New Experiences

On the 19th August 2026, as we drove to the airport to drop my wife and daughter for their flight journey to Taipei for our eldest daughter's further studies, as a family we experienced something new, never experienced before. Our three children had a good and sweet time of bonding while being in the car. The usually heavy traffic lengthened the journey of half an hour to more than hour, giving sufficient time for sibling bonding. This was the first time a member of our family is moving forward and be temporarily separated for a new beginning. 

As we dropped off at the airport, everyone of us were in tears. The first time I witnessed my chidren in tears of love. It even affected me for a while. But I could hold it back with a little struggling. By the way, we had sufficient prayers, fellowship, and preparation while on the way.

As my wife and eldest daughter were abroad, a new experience ensued at home. All that my wife used to do at home, now those things have to be done without her. My son and younger daughter were well prepared to fill up the "missing link." My cousins and niece came in to fill the gap too. With this new arrangement came also new learning. Things in the house were all taken care. Now, my chidren became more responsible to sleep on time and wake up on time without their mom's waking them up. And other household chores were responsibly taken care too. We learn to adapt with new environment. Praise the Lord for these new experiences! And our love for one another also grew much more.

Wedding Gathering

I received a last minute information about a sister's wedding in New Delhi just two days before the wedding date. I had no intention to attend as I had many things in store at hand. However, when my wife and my daughter spoke to me about attending the wedding, I responded half heartedly initially. Later, it was confirmed through a fellowship with a brother that it was good for me to attend. Then, I finally decided to attend.

As usual, the wedding meeting in the church life is simple yet full of content, especially in the ministry of the word. It was God who arranged the marriage and He did it in the best way. I was simply one of the witnesses to the Lord’s sovereign arrangement. The testimonies of the saints and the ministry of the word with a specific focus on the family members of the groom who were yet to be saved was simply amazing. The wedding meeting has served its very purpose; a testimony to the family and friends of the bride and groom, and also to the church.

When requested to be one among the brothers to bless the couple in prayer, the instant leading of the Lord in me for the couple was to bless them with the bkessing of the Triune God. The greatest blessing on the whole universe is the blessing of the Triune to be dispensed into the couple to make them one with Himself and one with one another, also and fill them with the divine love to love one another.

Besides, this wedding meeting also turned out to be our family gathering. After a long long time, we were able to take a family photo together with proper attire. As we graced the wedding, we also graced our own family gathering. The Lord was sovereign in leading us to this wedding meeting.

Sometimes, I may be complacent to something the Lord had in mind. Yet, He never left me to my own decision. He used the people around me to wake me up from my sleeper cell and venture out to discover what the He has planned for us as a family. 

What a blessing in disguise for our family in attending this wedding meeting! What a wedding gathering that also paved the way for our family gathering.

May the Lord bless the couple, make them fruitful and multiply.

God’s Timely Provision

As the Lord in His mercy has taught us lessons on prayer by leading us to pray for specific burdens and then answering those prayers, He also provided all the needs to meet the burden we prayed for. This was specifically concerning our daughter's further studies in Taipei. 

As the Lord has been leading us step by step, He also provided all the needs for her going abroad. At this juncture, the Lord provided in abundance the needed finance through the maturity of the Life Insurance policy I purchased fifteen years ago. Fifteen years ago, God already knew that I would need money and He led me to purchase a policy then. At the right time, fifteen years after, the policy got matured and I received much more than sufficient money to take care of all the needs at this time. Praise be to God who was and is and always will be; the all-knowing God!

With all the provisions, all that are needed for my daughter's going abroad were purchased one by one. Luggages, clothes, phone, laptop, and many big and small items, almost everything that could be purchased in India were all purchased. Even the finance needed in foreign currencies were all provided. Only that her scholarship could not be applied from India as the embassy has no department to handle the matter.  Nonetheless, the Lord provided all the needs. And I trust the Lord will also provide the best scholarship at the proper time as we also have been praying for this.

Praise the Lord, our Jehovah-Jireh!

Know God and Know Thyself

An enlightenment from the fellowship with a brother we enjoyed today at Hyderabad as we embarked one five days national brother fellowship. 

Spiritual blindness is not knowing God. As as result of ignorance of God, one is also ignorant of himself. In this case, ignorance is never a bliss. Many people, Christians and non-Christians alike, are groping in darkness, living in the wilderness, not knowing where they are, and to which direction they are headed to. One clear sign of such ignorance is to think highly of oneself, self glory, self boasting, pride, and foolishness. This was the case with Job and his friends in the book of Job, so is the case with many of us.

God in His sovereignty allow such ones to linger around in their blindness and then ultimately convicts them, leading  them to see themselves who they really are: ignorant, foolish, and blind. Job experienced such in Job 38-41 when God asked him thirty one questions of which he could answer none.  Such knowing of himself led Job to see God finally, then he declared:

Job 42:5-6 RecVer

I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye has seen You; Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.

Spiritual growth is to know what we are not and then to know who God is. Know God and know thyself.

When one knows who God is and gains God, perhaps, individually first, and then corporately, that is the blessing. God is the Blessing. This blessing comes as God Himself as the anointing Spirit. When we have this anointing, we have God. However, this gaining of God and His anointing comes with a price, the price of self denial through the experiences of the cross, leading to oneness and one accord among those who know God and know themselves.

To gain God, the self must go. For the self to go, one must see himself and know for sure that he is nothing and can do nothing. This will lead to self denial and allow Christ be everything. Thereby, always leaning and depending on God and God alone, never taking anything for granted. This is just like the experience of the Shulamite.

Song of Solomon 8:5-6 RecVer

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, Leaning on her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree: There your mother was in labor with you; There she was in labor and brought you forth.

Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol; Its flashes are the flashes of fire, A flame of Jehovah.

This has been my personal experience these days, even in the past 9-12 months. By God’s mercy, I could see and know something of God, many things of myself, and desperately depend on the Lord.

This personal experience also led me to depend on the Body, on the brothers and sisters, as I also very much depend on God Himself. For the experience of God on Christ as the Spirit is also the experience of His heart's desire, His Body, His church, the many fellow believers whom He has placed me with. 

This dependence on Christ and His church, brings in the oneness and accord which is the key to all the spiritual blessings in the New Testament. When God blesses based on this condition of oneness as in Psalms 133, the anointing is the result. When God blesses, there is the anointing. This anointing is the Spirit. When there is the blessing, we simply must praise rather than pray. 

On the cautionary note, no one can fake the anointing. If there is the anointing, there is the anointing. If there is no anointing, there is no anointing. This is the simple fact.

Such knowledge of no anointing should drive one to desperately humble oneself, repent and abhor oneself in dust and ashes as Job did, and seek God to gain Him. Then, this exposure and merciful dealing will pave the way to turn from blindness to seeing, from darkness to light, and from self to God, issuing in the presence of God bestowed on us as the anointing Spirit, the Blessing. This is to know God and to know oneself. 

Know God, know thyself. 

God is and we are not. 

Where the self is, there will no God be. Where God is, there will no self be. 

More God, less self.

More knowing God, more knowing of the self.

More knowing of God, more knowing of God's will.

Know God,and know thyself.

Lord, cause me to know Thee.

Lord, cause me to know myself. 

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Lord, cause Thyself as the Blessing bestow upon me.

Bible Reading: Fifty-Second Time

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God. Col. 3:16

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalms 119:105 

Today, the 6th of August 2026, the Lord graced me to complete reading my Bible for the fifty-second time. Trusting in God’s grace, I have a goal of reading through the Bible at least a hundred times in my lifetime, if the Lord wills so. This is my personal goal, and it gives me immense joy to be able to read and read the word of God. I do trust the Lord that He will grant me my heart's desire to read and read and read His words. And along with the reading, He may also speak to me and enlighten me as He did so many times as I was reading His words. In fact, all that He needed to speak to man was already spoken and recorded as the Bible. The need of the time is to diligently spend time reading His word day by day. This is man's responsibility. He will do the speaking and give the enlightenment. Therefore, I exercise myself to be diligent in coming to His word and cut straight the word of the truth.

Like Timothy, I have been graced to know the sacred writings even from my early age. What a mercy! Thanks to my grandfather, who taught me to read the Bible since my childhood. What a great blessing it has been to me to have learned this lesson of reading the Bible! And I am passing on this lesson to my own children, to my spiritual children, and also to all the young ones and the believers the Lord has brought to me, from time to time.

And that from a babe you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:15-17, RecVer)

To me, the only book worth reading again and again is the Bible. To me, the only time that must be spent at any cost is to read the Bible, even if it means doing it as a habit. Let it be a habit and be a part of my life. I reckon this is a good habit. God forbid, if I say that reading the Bible and prayer are the only things that must be done every day at all costs, even at the sacrifice of other things.

My prayer has been that the Lord would grace me day by day to be able to read the Bible with good eyesight; with a renewed mind filled with the shining of the divine light, sight, vision, and revelation; and a strong spirit to absorb the word as spiritual nourishment. And that, no matter what my circumstances may be, the Lord may grace me with the reading of the Bible and prayer day by day. I cannot think of a life without the word of God and prayer. They have become a part and parcel of my life. I have been married to the word of God and prayer. I can't help but keep reading the Bible and praying. And it has been my joy and enjoyment day by day. I can sacrifice anything else in the world, but not my time with the Lord in prayer and the word of God. 

I pray that all my children, family members, saints in the church life, and all the children of God should love the word of God and read it to be constituted with it, and be a man of prayer to the extent that we all be "living Bibles" and "talking Bibles" for others to see and read the Bible.

May the Lord grace me with the taste and enjoyment of His word that I may read and eat the word of God every day, all the days of my life.