Serve One Another in Humility

"Yea, all of you, gird yourself with humility, to serve one another." - 1 Peter 5:5

The Body builds up itself in love. It is not that there are special apostolic workers who can stand apart from the Body as though it were a 'thing', and build it up from the outside. There is a danger, to which we are all prone, of thinking of the Church of Christ as something outside of ourselves to which we are ministering. This is not possible. If we are to contribute to the life of the Body, we must humbly take our place of submission within it, receiving from, as well as contributing to, its mutual ministry of life.

Do we find it easier to humble ourselves towards God than towards our fellow believers? Remember, without a continual exercise of humility, it is quite impossible to serve one another. For better or worse we are members of that Body, from which we cannot resign. Offend men and we offend God. Accept help from our brethren, and it is only that we may help others. Serve, and we ourselves are ministered to. We are God's fellow-workers, God's building.

A Table In The Wilderness (Watchman Nee 主僕倪柝聲弟兄)

Read the Scriptures: 1 Peter 5

One Talent Member

"Now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased Him." - 1 Corinthians 12:18

Tell me, which is the better member, the foot or the hand? There is, when you come to think of it, no way of comparing them. Their function in the human body is quite different, and each is equally needed there. And yet many minimize God's calling. Because they cannot be the special member they admire, they decline to take their place at all. This is exactly the situation described in Jesus' parable of the men with the talents in Matthew chapter 25. There was a servant with five talents, and another with two, but the whole emphasis of the parable is on the one-talent man. The danger is of the one-talent brother burying his talent. 'Since I cannot occupy a place of prominence,' he asks himself, 'does it matter therefore whether I occupy any place at all?' It most certainly does! For the parable teaches that if two can grow into four, one can grow into two. It is by functioning that we discover life. The Church's life is hampered and impoverished by the holding back of the one-talent members.

A Table In The Wilderness (Watchman Nee 主僕倪柝聲弟兄)

Read the Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 12

Christ Enthroned - Church Revival

主僕鄭天福弟兄話語：寶座上的基督－復興教會 (有生命的供應)

每一次教會的復興都是由於豐富生命的供應。若沒有生命的供應，教會就必荒涼、乾渴。新耶路撒冷有一條生命河從羔羊的寶座流出來，（啟22：1）這說明只要羔羊在寶座上，就有生命活水的湧流，叫口渴的人得著解渴。從五旬節起，發源於寶座的生命水，自耶路撒冷開始往外流，經過撒瑪利亞，猶太全地，一直流到地極。這一道活水的源頭就是寶座上的基督。因此，凡聯結於寶座上的基督的人，都要從他們的腹中流出活水的江河，（約7：38）使整個教會得著復興。

Every church revival is due to the supply of abundant life. If there is no supply of life, the church will surely become desolate and thirsty. The New Jerusalem has a river of life flowing from the throne of the Lamb (Rev 22:1). This illustrates that as long as the Lamb sits on the throne, there will be the pouring of the living water of life that quenches the thirsty ones. Since the Pentecost, the water of life originates from the throne, that started flowing out of Jerusalem, passing through Samaria, all of Judea, and flowing to all ends of the earth. The source of this stream of living water is Christ Enthroned. Therefore, those who abide in Christ that sits on the throne, streams of living water will flow from within them (John 7:38), causing the entire church to be revived.

Christ Enthroned - Church Revival (Supply of Life)
God's servant Brother Zion Jeng