I come to His presence afresh

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I come to His presence afresh
  Ere the night has passed into morning;
And His face I see as it shines on me—
  The Lord within is dawning.
And He speaks to me and reveals to me
  All His riches for me today;
And with sweet delight I partake of Him,
  My hunger has passed away.
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As Spirit He speaks thru the Word
  Till my heart in echo is singing,
And the fount of life with His grace and pow'r
  Within my soul is springing.
And He speaks to me and reveals to me
  All His riches for me today;
And I drink of Him for my every need,
  My thirsting has passed away.
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In tenderness He deals with me,
  While I stay with joy in His presence;
And He saturates and supplies my soul
  With all His precious essence.
And He speaks to me and reveals to me
  All His riches for me today;
And in every way I partake of Him,
  My problems all passed away.

Copyright Living Stream Ministry. Used by permission.

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Un Hermano

19. The All-inclusive One with the Unsearchable Riches

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To the believers Christ is the all-inclusive One with the unsearchable riches. In Ephesians 3:8 Paul speaks of the unsearchable riches of Christ. The riches of Christ are what Christ is to us. As God, He is the Father, the Son, the Spirit, the Lord, the Christ. As man He is the Apostle, the Shepherd, the Forerunner, the Captain of our salvation. There are countless aspects of the riches of Christ, for He is the reality of every positive thing in the universe. For example, Christ is the real gravity. Without Him, we would drift away. As the One with the true holding power, Christ upholds the entire universe (Heb. 1:3). Because all positive things signify Christ, when He was on earth He could use so many things as illustrations of Himself. Using a door as a picture of Himself, He could say, “I am the door” (John 10:9). He is also the real light, life, breath, water, food, clothing, and dwelling place.

The riches of Christ also include both human virtues and divine attributes. Christ is the real love, patience, and forgiveness. Apart from Christ we cannot love, be patient, or forgive. But when we have Christ, we have the uplifted human virtues and also certain of the divine attributes.

As believers, we need to know and experience the unsearchable riches of Christ, which are for the producing of the church as His expression. This takes place through the divine dispensing of Christ into the believers. The church is produced not by teaching nor by organizing but by the dispensing of Christ. The more Christ is dispensed into us, the more life we have, the stronger life we have, the richer life we have, and the more uplifted the church life becomes. The riches of Christ produce the church through our experience and enjoyment of Christ. On Christ’s side it is a matter of dispensing; on our side it is a matter of experience and enjoyment. When we experience and enjoy the Christ who is dispensed into us, we become part of the proper church life. By absorbing the riches of Christ we become the Body of Christ as His fullness to express Him. Therefore, the Body of Christ is constituted of the riches of Christ that have been enjoyed and assimilated by us.

The Conclusion of the New Testament: God, Christ, and the Spirit, Message 52 (LSM)


Un Hermano

God’s life has been imparted into our life, His nature is being wrought into our nature, His mind is being wrought into our mind, and we even have His divine element, the element of the riches of His unsearchable life, to transform our entire being. Thus, we have God’s life, God’s nature, God’s mind, and the divine element of all His riches, and now we can participate in God’s divinity in full. For us to participate in God’s divinity means that He is making us Him. He is making us God in His life, in His nature, in His thinking, and in His expression but not, of course, in His Godhead.

The Secret of God's Organic Salvation—"the Spirit Himself with Our Spirit"

Chapter 3 (LSM)


Catherine

United Kingdom

As Spirit He speaks thru the Word

Till my heart in echo is singing,

And the fount of life with His grace and pow’r

Within my soul is springing.

And He speaks to me and reveals to me

All His riches for me today;

And I drink of Him for my every need,

My thirsting has passed away.

Amen amen


Anna

Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Lord, I come to your presence afresh!

Shine your face on me!

Lord, speaks to me and reveals to me,

Supply me with all Your riches today!

Lord, You are the fountain of life with grace and power,

All my needs are satisfied!


Jamell Maurice Demons

Gifford, Florida, United States

I need to come to his presence afresh.


Maria L.

Fremont, California, United States

Praise the Lord!

Our whole life hinges on the Lord’s speaking. Any day without the Lord’s speaking is in vain.

Lord, we are open to You: speak to us today. Our life depends on Your speaking. We love to hear Your voice. We come to You again and again and we want to maintain our fellowship with You, always listening to You!


Mike

San Antonio, TX, United States

This hymn blows “In the Garden” away.

Compare the two and see there’s no comparison. What clarity! What revelation! What experience! I’m so thankful for the brother who wrote this. What a blessing! “He saturates and supplies my soul with all His precious essence! ”


LC

San Juan, NCR, Philippines

One thing that we always treasure is that the Lord still speaks to us personally and directly today. (ITERO October 2023, message 1)


Norma McDonald

London, United Kingdom

I woke up this morning with the thought; "O No; another morning "

And the dear Lord brought this hymn to mind. Thank You Lord.

The words just spoke to me in a personal way.

Oh! What a comfort. Amen Lord.


Lilo Xu

Auckland, New Zealand

Lord, do draw us morning by moring to come to Your presence afresh, so that You can speak to us and reveal to us, oh Lord, all the riches You have prepared for us. Lord, we don't want to miss You. Lord, we want to enjoy You moment by moment, to absorb all the riches of our Savior!!!

We also need to eat the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs (Exo. 12:8; 1 Cor. 5:8). In these three items—the flesh of the lamb, the unleavened bread, and the bitter herbs—there are two kinds of lives: the animal life and the vegetable life. In the Scriptures these two kinds of lives typify two aspects of Christ's life. The animal life has blood that can be shed for redemption. Hence, the animal life typifies the redeeming aspect of the life of Christ, a life that redeems us continually (Rev. 13:8). The vegetable life is the generating life and typifies Christ's life in the aspect of generating. Christ was the grain of wheat that fell into the earth, died, and grew up to produce many grains (John 12:24). However, both the redeeming and the generating aspects of Christ's life are for sustaining, nourishing, supporting, energizing, and strengthening. Whether we eat the flesh of the animal life or the unleavened bread of the vegetable life, we will be strengthened and nourished. Christ as life to us is the sustaining and strengthening power. We need to take Christ as such a life.

We may wonder why it was necessary to eat the unleavened bread with bitter herbs. We often speak of how sweet it is to receive Christ, and a number of hymns use this expression (see Hymns, #221, 554, 1143, and 1157). But it is quite significant that in the type of the passover there are bitter herbs. While we are eating the flesh of the lamb and the unleavened bread, we need to experience bitterness also. The proper way to experience Christ as life is, on the one hand, to be sustained, strengthened, nourished, and supported and, on the other hand, to sense that we are sinful. In fact, the more we enjoy Christ, the more we will sense that we are sinful, worldly, natural, fleshly, soulish, and very much against God. The more we enjoy Christ, the more joy we will have, and also the more bitterness we will have. While we are thanking the Lord for being everything to us, we may also be confessing with tears how sinful, worldly, fleshly, and full of the self and the natural man we are, and how much we are for ourselves and how little we are for God. Before God we may feel that everything concerning us is wrong. In our experience the enjoyment of Christ as life is always accompanied by such a real repentance. This is to enjoy Christ with a contrite heart and a broken spirit (Psa. 51:17). Whenever we eat and enjoy Christ as the Lamb, there must also be the bitter herbs.

Piano Hymns