The work of the Holy Spirit has now brought you into a new heaven and a new earth. Everything is being renewed, everything is in My hands, staging a comeback! With their notions, people are unable to think it through, and to them it does not make sense, but it is I who am at work, and My wisdom is in it. You may therefore put down all of your notions and opinions. You may concern yourselves with eating and drinking the word of God in submission, with no misgivings whatsoever. Working this way I am shouldering a sacred responsibility.
In fact people do not need to be a particular way. Rather, it is God doing miraculous things, making manifest His omnipotence. People may not brag unless they brag about God. Otherwise they will suffer loss. God lifts the needy from dust, where the humble are made high. I will use My wisdom in all its forms to govern the universal church, to govern all nations and all peoples, so that they are all within Me, and so that all of you in the church might submit to Me. Those who did not obey before must now be obedient before Me, must submit to each other, accept each other, have interconnected lives, and love one another, all drawing on others’ strong points to offset their own weaknesses, serving in coordination. In this way will the church be built, and Satan will have no opportunity to exploit. Only then will My management plan not have failed. Let Me give you another reminder here. Do not allow misunderstandings to arise in you because such-and-such person is a certain way, or acted in such-and-such a way, letting you become decadent in spirit. As I see it, this is not appropriate, and it is a worthless thing. Is the One you believe in not God? It is not some person. The functions are not the same. There is one body. Each does his duty, each in his place and doing his very best, every spark of enthusiasm a flash of light, seeking maturity in life, thus will I be satisfied.
You must concern yourselves only with being peaceful before Me. Keep in close communion with Me, seek where you do not understand, offer up prayers, and wait for My time. See everything clearly from the spirit. Do not act recklessly, so as to prevent walking astray. Only in this way will your eating and drinking of My words truly bear fruit. Eat and drink My words often, ponder what I have said, pay attention to practicing My words, and live out the reality of My words; this is the key issue. The process of building the church is also the process of the growth of life. If your life stops growing, you cannot be built. Relying only on naturalness, on the flesh, on zealousness, on contributions, on qualifications, however good you may be, you will not be built. You must live within the words of life, live within the enlightenment and illumination from the Holy Spirit, know your actual situation, and be a changed person. You must have the same insight within your spirits, have new enlightenment, and be able to keep up with new light. You must be able to ceaselessly get in closer communication with Me, be able to base your actions in daily life on My words, be able to handle properly all sorts of people, events, and things based on My words, all activities in life having My words as your standard, living out My disposition.
If you desire to fathom and care for My will, you must pay attention to My words. Do not do things rashly. All that I do not approve of will meet a bad end. Blessing comes only in that which I have commended. If I speak, it will be. If I command, it will stand firm. You absolutely must not do what I have not permitted, to avoid enraging Me. At that time it will be too late to regret.
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
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