09/08/2026
I've been thinking:
Through my recent experience of spiritual discipline, I received a revelation about God’s work.
PHILIPPIANS 2:13
"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”
{2Corinthians 4:7}
👉 God wants us to know who is doing all the work. 👉 Today there are many mixtures in the Lord's work, and sometimes we cannot tell which work is of the Lord.
👉 God Himself wants to do all the work. 👉 Only then will He get all the results and glory.
👉 Whoever does the work will get the glory. AMEN
God cannot say, nor will He ever say, "It is My work, yet the glory goes to you." This is like one fighting the battle, while another receives the medal.
👉 This is not possible. God is just as jealous for His work as He is for His glory. AMEN.
👉 READ: Any possibility of misunderstanding in the work will produce a possibility of misunderstanding in glory.
👉 Devotees, unless God does all the work, He cannot get all the glory. 👉 God does not allow a little of man's hand in His own work. 👉 I rewrite: God does not allow a little of man’s hand in His divine spiritual work.
👉 Accordingly, He has to bring us to the point where His work has nothing more to do with you and me.
👉 As I have learned, many others must learn to see that no work belongs to us. 👉 Many are not cognizant that once we relax and become comfortable, we become proud and give glory to ourselves.
👉 In the services on YouTube, they use fog machines, colored flashing lights, and other technological gadgets. 👉 In the Lord's work, all artificial props have to go. They have to fall so utterly that we do not have any strength even to lift a finger.
When Ministry Becomes
Performance, Then The Sanctuary
Becomes A Theater, The Congregation Becomes An
Audience, Worship Becomes
Entertainment, And Man's Applause And Approval Become The Measure Of Success.
“Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
{Galatians 3:3}
A brother once said, "I have to ask the Lord to cleanse with His blood the tears which I shed for my sins." This shows us that even our tears over sins can be impure. AMEN
👉 Dearly beloved of God, before a man has fallen completely, the Lord cannot have a way through him.
READ:
👉 The believer must have clear knowledge and discernment about one thing: Who is doing the work.
👉 If we are not careful, we will end up being the one who does the work, and we will become proud. 👉 The cross in 2 Corinthians 13 concerns weakness. 👉 In His work, God requires that we become weak in and with Christ. 👉 We have to be so weakened that we cannot be proud even if we tried. TRUST ME, BELOVED, it is a good sign when God's children are led to such weakness.👉 It is good when they cannot even stand up on their own. If the wound a man suffers is deep enough, he will not need to try to remember anything; the Holy Spirit will remind him. OMG. 👉 I can assure you that God does and will measure out spiritual discipline according to His servant's need.
READ THIS:
👉 If we still need the help of our memory in practicing such things as humility, patience, and obedience, it proves that the dealings we have received are not adequate. The traditional belief system is unaware of this; nevertheless, 👉 if we need to exercise our memory to remember to love, then that love is not reliable. 👉 If we need to exercise our memory to remember to be patient, “that patience is not reliable.” 👉 If we need our memory for our humility, “then that humility is unreliable,” too.
👉 Peter became so fallen and defeated that he dared not even confess his love for the Lord. He had no confidence in anything.
👉 When the Lord tested him, he failed. His fall was genuine. His stubbornness, confidence, and everything fell. He became truly weak. 👉 Such a weakness is kept in the memory of the Holy Spirit; 👉 Peter no longer had to rely on his own memory. 👉 A big wound was there. He had truly become weak. His fall was a fall of his very life. 👉 After this, he could only work by the Holy Spirit. 👉 Not even an ounce of energy could come from him; from that point forward, every work belonged to the Lord. Oh, did I learn this lesson.
👉 Beloved Parishioners, we have to be so weakened in the work that no one will be confused about who is working. 👉 Even if the work is very small, it will be apparent to everyone that this work is of the Lord. We will no longer have the slightest thought that we are doing the work.
👉 We have to be enlightened by the Lord to see our total uselessness and to see that not even the slightest work originates from us. We have to acknowledge wholeheartedly, "I am like a dead dog in the Lord's work."
👉 READ IT:
The principle of work is the principle of death and resurrection. Without death, there is no resurrection. 👉 Man always wants the Lord to make up his lack. But this principle is basically wrong. 👉 The Lord's principle is first death, then resurrection. We have to know that we are dead already and that we need the Lord to resurrect us. Resurrection comes only when we see our utter uselessness. 👉 Ladies and gentlemen, only then will we give glory to God. When this happens, humility will be spontaneous. If our humility is something we can forget, it proves that there is still self-effort in our humility and that we have not fallen enough.
👉 Believers, the goal of humility is to give all the glory to God.
👉 We must forever be conscious that we are totally helpless, hopeless, powerless, and useless.
Yours truly,
PASTOR
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