The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy
Message Six
Being a Vessel Open to the Lord and Living Ordinary Days in the
Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Rom. 9:23 In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before prepared unto glory.
2 Cor. 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not out of us.
Matt. 22:37 And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
Word of Appetizer
The summary of Paul’s fourteen Epistles can be expressed in two words: open vessel. What is “an open vessel”? How are we to be open vessels to the Lord?
An open vessel is doing nothing but keeping itself open to be filled by the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity.
A genuine Christian life is one that loves the Lord and keeps itself open to the Lord and stops its doing; then the Lord comes in and does everything; the vessel simply contains the Lord and enjoys the Lord’s filling and doing. We simply need to love the Lord and keep ourselves open to Him, giving Him every opportunity to do everything He wants to do.
Spiritual Burden
As believers in Christ, we simply need to love the Lord and keep ourselves open to Him, giving Him every opportunity to do everything He wants to do, and we need to be satisfied with a life of ordinary days in the regular and normal experiences in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity according to the miraculous normality of the divine economy.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The first step of God’s procedure in fulfilling His purpose was to create man as a vessel to contain Himself as life.
God chose us so that we may be vessels of honor filled with the Triune God. The summary of Paul’s fourteen Epistles can be expressed in two words: open vessel.
The Experience of Life
All the things of life that the Triune God gives to us through the divine dispensing are quiet and calm, and our life as believers should also be quiet and calm; day by day we need to live in this way, simply living an ordinary life of receiving the divine dispensing.
Calling on the name of the Lord is a normality, yet it is miraculous that when we call, we receive the totality of the processed and consummated Triune God.
Practice and Application
As believers in Christ, we need to learn to be satisfied with a life of ordinary days in the regular and normal experiences in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity; we need to receive the divine dispensing little by little, day by day, receiving this dispensing again and again in a slow, steady way.
A genuine Christian life is one that loves the Lord and keeps itself open to the Lord and stops its doing; we should pray, “Lord, by Your grace I would not have any part of my being closed to You; I choose to keep myself entirely and thoroughly open to You”.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 God’s intention was to create a vessel to contain Him and to express Him (Rom. 9:23; 2 Tim. 2:20)
(Please illustrate that God chose us that we might be vessels of honor to contain Him.)
T2 God wants us only to love Him and to keep ourselves open to Him (2 Tim. 2:20)
(Please illustrate what the real significance of man’s fall and the real nature of man’s fall is.)
Day 2
T1 The summary of Paul’s fourteen Epistles can be expressed in two words: open vessel (Rom. 9:23; 2 Cor. 4:7)
(What is an “open vessel”? )
T2 Love the Lord to the uttermost; do not do anything for Him by yourself (Eph. 3:17)
(What is “active-passive”? )
Day 3
T1 Keeping yourself open to Him all the time, yet you would not do anything, but He would do everything (Gal. 2:20)
(Please illustrate with experiences that this is possible.)
T2 Love the Lord and keep yourself open and stop doing (Gal. 2:20)
(Please illustrate whatthe proper and genuine Christian life is.)
Day 4
T1 The One whom we believe in has become the Spirit (John 20:21; 1 Cor. 15:45b)
(Why must the Triune God be the Spirit before we can partake of His divine dispensing?)
T2 The Lord is definitely living in me. He is our life, and He is our person (Rom. 8:10-11)
(Please illustrate that the Lord is coming to us to be our life and to be our person.)
Day 5
T1 The miraculous normality of the divine economy (1 Tim. 1:4; Eph. 3:9)
(Please illustrate that all the spiritual and divine things provided by God for our experience and enjoyment are normal.)
T2 The spiritual matter of God coming into us to be our life is a very normal matter (John 3:5-7)
(Please illustrate that to be saved is a very normal matter.)
Day 6
T1 To open up our mouths and call “O Lord Jesus” is most normal (Rom. 1:12-13)
(Please illustrate that to call “O Lord Jesus,” and I get the processed Triune God for my enjoyment.)
T2 Regeneration is a miraculous normality (John 3:6)
(Please illustrate that regeneration was to receive God’s divine life in addition to our human life. )
