Daily Portions

Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 9

God’s Intention with Job—A Good Man Becoming a God-man

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be. We know that if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is.

Verses for reading:

Job 2:3 And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you considered My servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, though you have moved Me against him to destroy him without cause.

Job 2:9 Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.

Job 27:5 Far be it from me to declare you righteous! / Until I die, I will not put away my integrity from me.

Job 31:6 Let Him weigh me in a righteous balance, / And let God know my integrity.

Day 2 / Tuesday

1 Timothy 6:11 But you, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness.

2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.

Day 3 / Wednesday

Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore also the holy thing which is born will be called the Son of God.

Romans 8:29 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.

Reading portion 1

Excerpts from Life-study of Luke, message 62.

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 8

Job and the Two Trees

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are those who wash their robes that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into the city.

John 6:48 I am the bread of life.

Day 5 / Friday

1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony, that God gave to us eternal life and this life is in His Son.

Proverbs 16:25 There is a way which seems right to a man, / But the end of it is the ways of death.

Day 6 / Saturday

Romans 8:5-6 For those who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but those who are according to the spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

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 Collected Works of Watchman Nee, Volume 56.

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 7

Job and the Two Trees

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and he feared God and turned away from evil.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Revelation 22:1-2 And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street. 2 And on this side and on that side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

Job 4:7-8 Remember now, who, being innocent, has ever perished? / And where have the upright ever been cut off? 8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity / And those who sow trouble reap the same.

Day 3 / Wednesday

Job 2:3 And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you considered My servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, though you have moved Me against him to destroy him without cause.

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall live.

Reading portion 1

Excerpts from Life-study of Job, message 37.

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 6

Job’s Experience of God’s Consuming and Stripping in the Old Testament Being Far Behind That of Paul in the New Testament

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

John 3:5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

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.

Day 6 / Saturday

Philippians 1:22-25 But if I am to live in the flesh, if this to me is fruit for my work, then I do not know what I will choose. 23 But I am constrained between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for this is far better; 24 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary for your sake. 25 And being confident of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy of the faith.

Reading portion 2

Excerpts from Life-study of 2 Corinthians, message 35.

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 5

Job’s Experience of God’s Consuming and Stripping in the Old Testament Being Far Behind That of Paul in the New Testament

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Job 3:1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

Philippians 1:19-21 For I know that for me this will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, 20 According to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. 21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Philippians 3:9 And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is out of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is out of God and based on faith.

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 3 / Wednesday

Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the high and exalted One, / Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: / I will dwell in the high and holy place, / And with the contrite and lowly of spirit, / To revive the spirit of the lowly / And to revive the heart of the contrite.

Romans 1:9a For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son….

Revelation 1:10 I was in spirit on the Lord’s Day and heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet.

Reading portion 1

Excerpts from Life-study of Job, message 21.

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 4

God, Man and Satan

Morning revival verses

Day 4 / Thursday

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.

1 John 5:18 We know that everyone who is begotten of God does not sin, but he who has been begotten of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

2 Timothy 4:22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

Day 5 / Friday

Romans 16:20 Now the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

Romans 12:5 So we who are many are one Body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Romans 16:1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church which is in Cenchrea.

Day 6 / Saturday

Revelation 12:5 And she brought forth a son, a man-child, who is to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

Matthew 12:26 And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

Revelation 12:7-11 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels went to war with the dragon. And the dragon warred and his angels. 8 And they did not prevail, neither was their place found any longer in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast down, the ancient serpent, he who is called the Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole inhabited earth; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, Now has come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ, for the accuser of our brothers has been cast down, who accuses them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their soul-life even unto death.

Reading portion 2

Excerpts from Life-study of Revelation, message 36.

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Crystallization-study of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, part 3

God, Man and Satan

Morning revival verses

Day 1 / Monday

Job 1:6-7 Then one day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, Satan also came among them. 7 And Jehovah said to Satan, Where have you come from? And Satan answered Jehovah and said, From roving the earth and going about in it.

Isaiah 14:12-14 How you have fallen from heaven, / O Daystar, son of the dawn! / How you have been hewn down to earth, / You who made nations fall prostrate! 13 But you, you said in your heart: / I will ascend to heaven; / Above the stars of God / I will exalt my throne. / And I will sit upon the mount of assembly / In the uttermost parts of the north. 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; / I will make myself like the Most High.

Day 2 / Tuesday

Job 2:3-7 And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you considered My servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, though you have moved Me against him to destroy him without cause. 4 Then Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin! Indeed all that a man has he will give for the sake of his life. 5 But stretch forth Your hand, and touch his bone and his flesh; and he will surely curse You to Your face. 6 And Jehovah said to Satan, Here he is, in your hand; only spare his life. 7 And Satan went forth from Jehovah’s presence and struck Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Day 3 / Wednesday

1 John 3:8 He who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

Hebrews 2:14 Since therefore the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death He might destroy him who has the might of death, that is, the devil.

Reading portion 1

CWWN, Vol. 1, Chapter 9, part 1

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