From my spirit within flows a fountain of life

Amén!!! Praise the Lord!!!!

LIFE BEING GOD HIMSELF
ENJOYED BY MAN
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We have already seen that God’s goal in creation and redemption is life. God created man so that man would obtain life. Furthermore, the story of the entire universe is related to life in living creatures, with God’s life being the highest life. The source of all life in the universe is God. Hence, the story of the universe comes from God’s life. If we want to know and understand God’s salvation, we must see that God’s only goal is life; life is God’s only purpose, and everything that happens in the universe is because of life and originates from life.

AN OPENING WORD

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Now we need to see two crucial points: what does the life that we speak of refer to, and how do we contact and touch this life? The Bible shows that the source of life is God; God is the origin of life. Psalm 36:9 says, “With You is the fountain of life. ” In other words, life is in God. In verses 7 through 9 there are some related points that we must consider. Verse 7 speaks of God’s lovingkindness and says that His precious lovingkindness enables the sons of men to take refuge in the shadow of His wings. Verse 8 speaks of the fatness of God’s house and of the river of His pleasures for man’s enjoyment. Verse 9 has two special points: “for with You is the fountain of life” and “in Your light we see light. ” Let us examine these four points: first, man can take refuge in God’s lovingkindness; second, man enjoys the fatness of God’s house and the river of His pleasures when he takes refuge in God’s lovingkindness; third, man enjoys God’s fatness and the river of His pleasures in God’s life; and fourth, man can touch God’s life in His light.

Knowing Life and the Church
Chapter 2 CWWL, 1953, vol. 1
(LSM)

THE ISSUE OF OUR
ENJOYMENT OF THE LORD
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If we enjoy the Lord in this way, this enjoyment will create a deep hunger within us for the Lord’s heart’s desire, His dwelling place. This enjoyment will stir us up to pray, “Lord, bring me fully into the experience of the church life. Keep me in Your courts and in Your house all the days of my life. ” The enjoyment of the Lord will bring you into the church life, and the church life will cause you to enjoy Him even more as the fountain of life and the source of light. Sometimes people asked us where we received all our light from. They wondered what books we studied to get this light from the Word. Actually, the light we have received is from the living Lord Himself in the church. In the church the Bible is an open book. The church is typified by the tabernacle. Within the tabernacle is the table of the bread of the Presence, which is the source, the fountain, of life, and the lampstand, which is the source of light. Life and light are both in the house of the Lord, in the church, God’s building. This life and light are inexhaustible in the church. In the Lord’s house the light even floods in, as the psalmist said, “In Your light we see light” (Psa. 36:9).

The issue of the enjoyment of the tree of life is the tabernacle, the house of the Lord. If we enjoy Him in such a living and real way as the tree of life, we will have the tabernacle, and we will be in the house of the Lord. At that time we will be able to say that we are saturated with the fatness of the house of the Lord. We will enjoy Him as the fountain of life and the source of light. We will only desire to dwell in His house all the days of our life and will have a full realization that a day in His courts is better than a thousand. We will be like the sparrow that has found a house and the swallow that has found a nest for herself where she may lay her young at the two altars of the house (84:3). The church life will be our resting place and a nest to take care of the younger ones whom we have brought to the Lord. Thank and praise the Lord for the fatness of His house.

Chapter 4 The Tree of Life

(LSM)

LIFE BEING GOD HIMSELF
ENJOYED BY MAN
--------------------------

We have already seen that God’s goal in creation and redemption is life. God created man so that man would obtain life. Furthermore, the story of the entire universe is related to life in living creatures, with God’s life being the highest life. The source of all life in the universe is God. Hence, the story of the universe comes from God’s life. If we want to know and understand God’s salvation, we must see that God’s only goal is life; life is God’s only purpose, and everything that happens in the universe is because of life and originates from life.

AN OPENING WORD

----------------------------

Now we need to see two crucial points: what does the life that we speak of refer to, and how do we contact and touch this life? The Bible shows that the source of life is God; God is the origin of life. Psalm 36:9 says, “With You is the fountain of life. ” In other words, life is in God. In verses 7 through 9 there are some related points that we must consider. Verse 7 speaks of God’s lovingkindness and says that His precious lovingkindness enables the sons of men to take refuge in the shadow of His wings. Verse 8 speaks of the fatness of God’s house and of the river of His pleasures for man’s enjoyment. Verse 9 has two special points: “for with You is the fountain of life” and “in Your light we see light. ” Let us examine these four points: first, man can take refuge in God’s lovingkindness; second, man enjoys the fatness of God’s house and the river of His pleasures when he takes refuge in God’s lovingkindness; third, man enjoys God’s fatness and the river of His pleasures in God’s life; and fourth, man can touch God’s life in His light.

Knowing Life and the Church
Chapter 2 CWWL, 1953, vol. 1
(LSM)

THE ISSUE OF OUR
ENJOYMENT OF THE LORD
--------------------------------

If we enjoy the Lord in this way, this enjoyment will create a deep hunger within us for the Lord’s heart’s desire, His dwelling place. This enjoyment will stir us up to pray, “Lord, bring me fully into the experience of the church life. Keep me in Your courts and in Your house all the days of my life. ” The enjoyment of the Lord will bring you into the church life, and the church life will cause you to enjoy Him even more as the fountain of life and the source of light. Sometimes people asked us where we received all our light from. They wondered what books we studied to get this light from the Word. Actually, the light we have received is from the living Lord Himself in the church. In the church the Bible is an open book. The church is typified by the tabernacle. Within the tabernacle is the table of the bread of the Presence, which is the source, the fountain, of life, and the lampstand, which is the source of light. Life and light are both in the house of the Lord, in the church, God’s building. This life and light are inexhaustible in the church. In the Lord’s house the light even floods in, as the psalmist said, “In Your light we see light” (Psa. 36:9).

The issue of the enjoyment of the tree of life is the tabernacle, the house of the Lord. If we enjoy Him in such a living and real way as the tree of life, we will have the tabernacle, and we will be in the house of the Lord. At that time we will be able to say that we are saturated with the fatness of the house of the Lord. We will enjoy Him as the fountain of life and the source of light. We will only desire to dwell in His house all the days of our life and will have a full realization that a day in His courts is better than a thousand. We will be like the sparrow that has found a house and the swallow that has found a nest for herself where she may lay her young at the two altars of the house (84:3). The church life will be our resting place and a nest to take care of the younger ones whom we have brought to the Lord. Thank and praise the Lord for the fatness of His house.

Chapter 4 The Tree of Life

(LSM)

Amen saints what a beautiful song

Hallelujah, the Triune God has been installed in our being and He is flowing in us as the love of God, the grace of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit! Lord Jesus, thank You for coming into our spirit as the current of the Divine Trinity, the rich flow of the divine life! 😀

Lord cause me to treasure the sweet flow of life over all things! Deepen the pure flow of life!

No more struggle and strain
All self effort is vain
In the flow I am perfectly blessed

Lord, I don’t need to have any more struggle and strain, all self-effort is vain, in the flow I am perfectly blessed!