HOME MEETINGS
Read and pray: “For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be comforted.” (1 Cor. 14:31)
Now all of you need to practice. In the home meetings everyone needs to speak by faith. This faith, as we saw in the last message, is involved with the Spirit. This spirit is not merely our spirit nor merely the Holy Spirit, but absolutely a mingled spirit.
Today we know that we have a mingled spirit within us, the Holy Spirit mingling with our spirit. Every time we do not care about the environment or the circumstances, but care only about what the Bible says, we exercise our faith.
Each time we exercise our faith, our spirit is included and the Holy Spirit is also there. Thus we have three things: our faith, our spirit, and the Holy Spirit. We all need to learn to speak in any kind of meeting, exercising our faith, by our spirit, and by the Holy Spirit.
In reality, the three things are one. When we speak by faith, we exercise our spirit. When we exercise our spirit, the Holy Spirit moves in our spirit. This makes the difference.
Speak what the Bible says. If we are willing to exercise our ability to believe, faith will be there. When we speak what the Bible says, the spirit is there and the Holy Spirit is also there. This makes our speaking living.
Today we are not in the age of the Old Testament. We are not in that economy. We are in the New Testament economy. In this economy God has poured out His Spirit upon us. He is like the blowing wind and like the air.
If we open the window, we have the breeze and the air. In the New Testament dispensation the wind blows all day and the air is here all the time. We must believe this according to what the Bible says. Therefore we have the Spirit within us and also the Spirit upon us. Now we are simply those who are baptized in the Spirit and are drinking the one Spirit.
In the New Testament, especially in Acts, the baptism of the Spirit refers to the coming down of the Spirit upon the believers. Both the baptism in the Spirit and the coming down of the Spirit refer to the same act.
In the Old Testament the word baptism or baptize is not used, but the concept of descending [of the Spirit] is there. The Spirit of Jehovah came down upon His people. This coming down of the Spirit is like the baptism of the Spirit.
This baptism has been completely carried out, and the result now rests upon us. We must believe this and practice it. Even at home, when you speak with your families concerning Christ, you must exercise faith and the spirit.
You need to believe that the Spirit is upon you and in you. When you speak with your children, you need to speak in this way. Unfortunately, we feel that we need faith, spirit, and the Holy Spirit only when we are going to give a message.
We do not feel such a need when we speak with our wife, our husband, our parents, or our children. Our way of speaking with them, without faith, may put them to sleep. But divine speaking will never make them sleepy. Rather, it wakes them up.
If we practice divine speaking, we will get used to it. Then on the Lord’s Day we will participate in the meeting by speaking. We will not remain silent in the meeting. We will be accustomed to speaking divine speaking. In this way we will speak with faith, with the spirit, and with the Holy Spirit. This is the proper way.
I have a heavy burden because I feel it is difficult for me to stir up your hearts and turn your minds to give full attention to this matter. In the meeting you nod your heads, but when you leave, you simply forget. You do not practice.
Are you willing to promise that from now on you will begin to practice all the time? If you have no one to speak to, simply speak to the air. Perhaps some angels are there and some demons are listening to your speaking.
In any case, simply speak in this way. Speak, speak, speak. Speak by faith. When you do it by exercising your ability to believe, your spirit will be included and the Holy Spirit will also be with you. Then your speaking becomes divine. It is a kind of divine speaking.
It may be that those who are silent in the meetings say, “Brother Lee, don’t blame me. You must blame God who created me like this. This is my disposition. I did not make it, but God did. Brother Lee, you must thank God for His mercy that He created you in this way: speaking, speaking, speaking all the time. I was not created by God in this way, and I cannot speak.”
To say this annuls the word of Paul. Paul said that you can all prophesy.
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