Being a Vessel Unto Honor, a Fully Equipped Man of God,
by Being Empowered in the Grace Which Is in Christ Jesus
to Fully Accomplish Our Ministry in the Unique Ministry of God’s Economy
Message Five
Being a Fully Equipped Man of God by Inhaling and
Exhaling the Word of God as the Breath of God
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
2 Tim. 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
17 That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
Word of Appetizer
What is a fully equipped God-man?
A God-man is a person who partakes of the life and nature of God, being one with Him in life and nature (1 Corinthians 6:17), and thus manifesting God. A fully equipped God-man is someone who, in the spirit, reads the Bible through various prayers and supplications, so as to inhale God and supply the Word as the Spirit, so as to exhale God into people.
Spiritual Burden
God’s ultimate purpose is to gain a corporate God-man to be His corporate manifestation. God does not want good people, but God-men, God-men who have the breath of God.
To become a fully equipped God-man with the breath of God, we need to exercise our spirit, constantly receiving the Spirit, and also inhale God’s Word. The overcomer is fully constituted by the Spirit that is the Word of God, becoming the Bride of Christ and the new man, the corporate God-man, who has the breath of God as a sword to slay, to destroy God’s enemies, so that God’s sons can be manifested.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
God’s ultimate purpose is to gain a corporate God-man to be His corporate manifestation. God does not want good people, but God-men, God-men who have the breath of God.
The Bible, God’s breathing out, is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, so that the God-man may be complete, equipped for every good work.
The Experience of Life
Whenever we see God’s things, we see our own mistakes, faults, shortcomings, and sins. As a result, we are reproved, rebuked. The more we see God, know God, and love God, the more we abhor ourselves and deny ourselves.
Whenever we are troubled by certain negative things within us, we should receive God’s Word in the spirit through various prayers. When the negative things within us are slain through prayerful reading, the Lord gains the victory.
Practice and Application
To become a fully equipped God-man with the breath of God, we need to exercise our spirit, constantly receiving the Spirit, and also inhale God’s Word.
We should read the Bible to inhale God, to gain life. We should teach the Bible to exhale God, to dispense life.
We are kept safe in church life and ministry by receiving the Word that is the Spirit, which is the slaying sword. This Word is the spiritual antibiotic that kills the “germs” within us, enabling us to live a healthy physical life and a healthy church life.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 The function of the human spirit (Gen. 2:7, Job. 32:8)
(Please illustrate that the human spirit is an organ within man that enables him to contact, receive, and contain God.)
T2 The Lord’s death and resurrection caused Him to become the Spirit from the flesh (John 20:22)
(Please illustrate that the Lord breathed the Holy Spirit into the disciples, thereby imparting Himself into them to be life and everything.)
Day 2
T1 The speaking of God is the breathing out of God (2 Tim. 3:14-16)
(Please illustrate that the breathing out of God refers to the Bible, the Word of God, which is the breathing out of God.)
T2 Reading the Bible is related to both the breathing out of God and our breathing in (2 Tim. 3:14-16)
(Please illustrate that when God breathes Himself out, He breathes out Himself. When we read the Bible, we breathe in God.)
Day 3
T1 The Bible is for us to receive profit in four matters—teaching, conviction or reproof, correction, and instruction (2 Tim. 3:16, Eph. 3:9)
(Please illustrate that doctrine is actually nothing less than divine revelation.)
T2 No one can see something about God and not be reproved by what he sees (2 Tim. 3:16)
(Please illustrate that the spiritual meaning of reproof, correction, and instruction after doctrine.)
Day 4
T1 We may be good men, but we are not God-men (2 Tim. 3:17, 2 Pet. 1:4)
(Please illustrate that a man of God is a God-man, that is, one who partakes of God’s life and nature and is one with Him in God’s life and nature.)
T2 The result of doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness is to make a godly person perfect (2 Tim. 3:17)
(Please illustrate that we may memorize and recite scriptures without experiencing any reproof.)
Day 5
T1 The immediate and timely Word is the Spirit; such a word is a sword (Eph. 6:17-18).
(Please illustrate that if a word is merely printed letters, it is not the Spirit, nor is it a sword.)
T2 Praying the Word is the way to kill the enemy within us (Eph. 6:17-18)
(Please illustrate with experience that the more we receive God’s Word in the spirit through all kinds of prayers, the more the negative things within us are put to death.)
Day 6
T1 Being preserved in the church life through the slaying power of the Word as the Spirit (Rev. 1:16, Heb. 4:12)
(Please illustrate with experiences that we can let all the offenses pass away through receiving the Word as the Spirit. )
T2 Receiving God’s Word in a living way is receiving the Word as the Spirit (Rev. 1:16, Heb. 4:12).
(Please illustrate with experiences that the Word becomes the Spirit, and the Spirit becomes a sword, slaying the germs within us and the evil spirits in the air.)
