Month: April 2021

Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 18

Reading the Book of Proverbs with a Praying Spirit

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

Ephesians 6:17-18 And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, 18 By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints.

Day 5 / Friday

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Timothy 1:6-7 For which cause I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of sobermindedness.

Day 6 / Saturday

John 10:35 If He said they were gods, to whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Ephesians 6:17 And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God.

Reading portion 2

Excerpts from Life-study of Proverbs, message 4.

Podcast 2

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 17

Reading the Book of Proverbs with a Praying Spirit

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Proverbs 1:1-4 The proverbs of Solomon… 2 For knowing wisdom and instruction; / For discerning words of understanding; 3 For receiving instruction in wise conduct, / Righteousness, justice, and equity; 4 For giving prudence to the simple, / Knowledge and discretion to the young man.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Psalms 119:48 And I will lift up my hand to Your commandments, which I love; / And I will muse upon Your statutes.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Day 3 / Wednesday

Ephesians 4:22-24 That you put off, as regards your former manner of life, the old man, which is being corrupted according to the lusts of the deceit, 23 And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind 24 And put on the new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the reality.

Verses for reading:

Proverbs 1:5-7 That the wise man may hear and increase in learning, / And he who has understanding may acquire sound counsel; 6 For understanding proverb and figure, / The words of the wise and their difficult sayings. 7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; / Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Reading portion 1

Excerpts from Life-study of Proverbs, message 1.

Podcast 1

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 16

The Multifarious Wisdom of God

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

Romans 8:23 And not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body.

Day 5 / Friday

Ephesians 3:10 In order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of God might be made known through the church.

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies.

Day 6 / Saturday

Hebrews 11:10 For he eagerly waited for the city which has the foundations, whose Architect and Builder is God.

Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Verses for reading:

Proverbs 8:17–19 I [wisdom] love those who love me, / And those who seek me diligently will find me. 18 Riches and honor are with me, / Enduring wealth and righteousness. 19 My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold; / And my yield than choice silver.

Proverbs 8:23–27 I [wisdom] was set up from eternity, / From the beginning, before the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, / When there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, / Before the hills, I was brought forth; 26 When He had not yet made the earth and the fields, / Nor the first dust of the world. 27 When He established the heavens, I was there; / When He inscribed a circle upon the surface of the deep.

Reading portion 2

Excerpts from CWWN, vol. 36, “Christ becoming our wisdom”

Podcast 2

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 15

The Multifarious Wisdom of God

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom, / And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Proverbs 3:19 Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; / He established the heavens by understanding.

Proverbs 8:30 Then I was by Him, as a master workman; / And I was daily His delight, / Rejoicing always before Him.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and untraceable His ways!

Romans 16:25 Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, that is, the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which has been kept in silence in the times of the ages.

Romans 16:27 To the only wise God through Jesus Christ, to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Day 3 / Wednesday

Proverbs 8:12 I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, / And I find knowledge and discretion.

1 Corinthians 1:24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Colossians 2:2b-3 …unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, 3 In whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Verses for reading:

Proverbs 1:2 For knowing wisdom and instruction; / For discerning words of understanding.

Proverbs 8:11–13 For wisdom is better than corals, / And nothing that you desire compares with her. 12 I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, / And I find knowledge and discretion. 13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; / Pride and arrogance and the evil way / And the perverse mouth, I hate.

Reading portion 1

Excerpts from Life-study of Proverbs, message 2.

Podcast 1

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 14

The Move of God with and among Men

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

Psa. 42:1-2 As the hart pants / After the streams of water, / So my soul pants / For You, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, / For the living God. / When will I come and appear / Before God?

Day 5 / Friday

Acts 13:33 That God has fully fulfilled this promise to us their children in raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, “You are My Son; this day have I begotten You.”

Acts 5:31 This One God has exalted to His right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

Day 6 / Saturday

Ephesians 4:4-6 One Body and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Verses for reading:

Job 42:1-6 Then Job answered Jehovah and said, 2 I know that You can do all things / And that no purpose of Yours can be restrained. 3 Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? / Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, / Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4 Hear now, and I will speak; / I will ask of You, and You shall inform me. 5 I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, / But now my eye has seen You; 6 Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent / In dust and ashes.

Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light.

Colossians 1:15–19 Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation, 16 Because in Him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or lordships or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and unto Him. 17 And He is before all things, and all things cohere in Him; 18 And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things; 19 For in Him all the fullness was pleased to dwell.

Colossians 3:4 When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.

Colossians 3:10–11 And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, 11 Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.

Acts 26:16–18 But rise up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a minister and a witness both of the things in which you have seen Me and of the things in which I will appear to you; 17 Delivering you from the people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, 18 To open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.

Ephesians 3:9 And to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things.

Ephesians 3:16–19 That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, 17 That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are 19 And to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.

Reading portion 2

Excerpts from Life-study of Job, message 34.

Podcast 2

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 13

The Move of God with and among Men

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

2 Cor. 5:17 So then if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, they have become new.

Gal. 6:15 For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation is what matters.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Gen. 4:4 And Abel also brought an offering, from the firstlings of his flock, that is, from their fat portions. And Jehovah had regard for Abel and for his offering.

Gen. 22:18 And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.

Day 3 / Wednesday

Job 1:5 And when the days of feasting ran their course, Job would send word and sanctify them; and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, Perhaps my children have sinned and have cursed God in their heart. Job did this continually.

Job 10:13 But You have hidden these things in Your heart; / I know that this is with You.

Verses for reading:

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.

Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel” (which is translated, God with us).

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:16–17 Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary lightness of affliction works out for us, more and more surpassingly, an eternal weight of glory.

Romans 8:29–30 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers; 30 And those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Reading portion 1

Excerpts from Life-study of Job, message 32.

Podcast 1

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 12

Gaining God to Be Transformed by God for the Purpose of God

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

2 Corinthians 3:16-18 But whenever their heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.

Day 5 / Friday

2 Corinthians 4:10-12 Always bearing about in the body the putting to death of Jesus that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death operates in us, but life in you.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary lightness of affliction works out for us, more and more surpassingly, an eternal weight of glory, 18 Because we do not regard the things which are seen but the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Day 6 / Saturday

2 Corinthians 4:1 Therefore having this ministry as we have been shown mercy, we do not lose heart.

Romans 5:3-4 And not only so, but we also boast in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance; 4 And endurance, approvedness; and approvedness, hope.

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 But all things are out from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 Namely, that God in Christ was reconciling the world to Himself, not accounting their offenses to them, and has put in us the word of reconciliation. 20 On behalf of Christ then we are ambassadors, as God entreats you through us; we beseech you on behalf of Christ, Be reconciled to God.

Verses for reading:

Job 42:1-6 Then Job answered Jehovah and said, 2 I know that You can do all things / And that no purpose of Yours can be restrained. 3 Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge? / Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, / Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4 Hear now, and I will speak; / I will ask of You, and You shall inform me. 5 I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, / But now my eye has seen You; 6 Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent / In dust and ashes.

Reading portion 2

Excerpts from The Way for a Christian to Mature in Life, chapter 12.

Podcast 2

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