Blessing

Today, the last day of the weekend training for the national responsible brothers and serving ones, the last of the nine mesaages released was the portion alloted to me. The title of the message was rightly titled, "Blessing." This was indeed a blessing to me experientially. Not because I spoke the message in coordination with brothers, but because I am truly being blessed by the Lord’s uptodate speaking on the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Coincidentally, this was also the last meeting we had eith all the full-time trainees as they would be shifting down South from the North. 

Blessing is the overflow of the divine life through human channel who has been chosen, dealt with, broken, transformed, and matured. This human channel is a person who has been saturated and permeated with God's divine life and nature by being under the continual dispensing of the Triune God. He is a God-man who has become one with God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. His thought has become God’s thought, his feeling has become God’s feeling, his decision has become God’s decision, and he himself is fully one with God! He is blessed and he has become a channel of blessing to others. He brings people to God and brings God to people. His very presence is God’s presence. What a blessed human life! This is a God-man life. 

To be a blessed person and be a channel of blessing, one has to know and experience the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob in the many aspects of the experiences each person had experienced which is also the experience of the Triune God, in the Father, in the Son, and in the Holy Spirit. 

"And God also said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation." (Exodus 3:15) Recovery Version

Only by being identified experientially with the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, can one express and represent God fulfilling His eternal purpose of creating man.

"And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." (Genesis 1:26) Recovery Version

Lord, grace us to be such a blessed person!

Tell Me Your Name

Genesis 32:29-31 RecVer

29. And Jacob asked Him and said, Please tell me Your name. But He said, Why is it that you ask My name? And He blessed him there.

30. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for, he said, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been preserved.

31. And the sun rose upon him as he crossed over Penuel, and he limped because of his hip.

Jacob wrestled with a man who suddenly seemed to appear from nowhere, and after the wrestling disappeared. This is a sure sign that that man had been with Jacob all the time, for he neither came nor left, he just appeared and disappeared. This is the man whom Jacob described in his latter days as "the God who shepherded me all my life to this day."

"And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn. And when the man saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated as he wrestled with Him." (Genesis 32:24-25) Recovery Version

"And he blessed Joseph and said, / The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, / The God who has shepherded me all my life to this day," (Genesis 48:15) Recovery Version

However, this man who wrestled with him did not reveal his name when he asked him. Jacob pleaded, "Please tell me Your name." Instead of answering his question, the man questioned him back without answering, and yet blessed him. Who is this mysterious man?

To Jacob, experientially, that man was God who blessed him after dealing with him, breaking him, and transforming him. To us too, experientially, this man has been with us all the time, physically invisible in Himself, but very real in person, things and matters. The man is God as the Spirit working silently yet steadily transforming us day by day.

I was enlightened to see who this man is whose name is unknown. It was God’s sovereignty that that man did not tell his name upon being asked by Jacob. Because that man experientially is in different forms. In fact, in my life, he could be my family members; my wife, my son, my daughter, my cousins, my niece, my brothers in the church, or even anybody who is the Lord-in-disguise or whom the Lord used to accomplish His purpose in me. 

Once I got this revelation, all my questionings about the people around me have stopped. Now, I understood why God allowed many mysterious things to happen to me, with many enigmas. The many "whys?" have now become many "wows!" Hallelujah!

Now I know why Jacob's request, "please tell me Your name" was never granted. Now I know why many so-called prayers were not answered. Actually, they were already answered and I didn't know that they were already answered. Actually, the answers came in many ways I did not expect nor apprehend in the it should. What I need was my eyes to be enlightened to see as God sees.

Thank the Lord for this man who did not tell his name inspite of being asked. For he has too many names; different at different times. Please tell me Your name, again? No name, its an experience.