Once I call His name there's a flow within;
It turns me from my day, makes Him Lord again.
As my spirit burns, Satan cannot win.
Calling, "Oh Lord Jesus, " keeps the flow within.

Spring up, O well, within my spirit!
Rise up and tell, so all can hear it!
Spring up, O well, so I experience
That life abundantly.

Tune

Fresh as the dew of the morning,
Bringing a sweet rest unheard,
Christ, in the gentle anointing,
Whispers His comforting word:
Stand till the trial is over,
Stand till the tempest is gone,
Stand for the glory of Jesus,
Stand till the kingdom is won.

Lord of all hope, O how
Sweet is Thy voice,
Making my heart in Thy
Presence rejoice.

Hymn 708

"But unto you who fear My name will the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings, and you will go forth and leap about like well-fed calves."

Malachi 4:2

"And he will be like a tree transplanted beside water,

Which sends out it roots by a stream,

And will not be afraid when heat comes;

For its leaves remain flourishing,

And it will not be anxious in the year of drought

And will not cease to bear fruit."

According to God's economy, the one who trusts in God is like a tree planted by water, signifying God as the fountain of living waters.  A tree grows beside a river by absorbing all the riches of the water.  This is a picture of God's economy, which is carried out by His dispensing.  In order to receive the divine dispensing, we as the trees must absorb God as the water.  The riches of the supplying God dispensed into us as the trees constitute us with  God's divinity and cause us to grow into God's measure.  In this way we and God become one, having the same element, essence, constitution, and appearance.

Jeremiah 17:8 footnote 1
Holy Bible Recovery Version

"The woman became a debtor because of the poverty of her husband. But she had a pot of oil. This pot of oil was the basic ingredient. It was this pot of oil that allowed her to pay her debt and that supplied her daily needs. She needed empty vessels. Elisha ordered her to prepare empty vessels, and not a few. Through Adam we have become poor. But praise the Lord, we have the Holy Spirit. What is lacking are empty spots for the Spirit to fill. The fact is not that we cannot be filled, but that we do not have the empty spots for the Holy Spirit to work into. The Holy Spirit will only fill the empty spots. For spiritual progress we must be continually empty to be continually filled. It is not to be emptied once and then remain full forever. Time after time we need further emptying and further filling...If there is unlimited emptiness, there will be unlimited filling. We should continually empty ourselves, instead of emptying ourselves just once. We should continually empty ourselves so that we can be continually filled. We are responsible for the emptying, and the Holy Spirit is responsible for the filling."

Collected Works of Watchman Nee, Vol 11
The Present Testimony (4), page 725

"Now a certain woman from among the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared Jehovah.  And the creditor has come to take my two children to himself as servants.

And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you?  Tell me, what do you have in your house?  And she said, Your servant has nothing at all in the house, except a jar of oil.

And he said, Go and borrow vessels outside, from all your neighbors, empty vessels, and not just a few.

Then go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and each one you fill set aside.

So she went away from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons; and they brought the vessels to her, and she poured out into them.

And when she had filled the vessels, she said to her son, Bring me another vessel.  But he said to her, There is no other vessel.  And the oil stopped."

2 Kings 4:1-6

"The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

John 3:8

"Nor height nor depth nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

"The love of God is the source of His eternal salvation.  The love is in Christ and has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit.  Nothing can separate us from this love of God.  In God's salvation this love to us has become the love of Christ, which does many marvelous things for us through the grace of Christ until God's complete salvation is accomplished in us.  These marvelous things provoke God's enemy to attack us with all kinds of sufferings and calamities.  However, because of our response to the love of God in Christ, these attacks have become benefits to us.  Hence, we more than conquer in all our afflictions and calamities."

Romans 8:39 footnote 1
Holy Bible Recovery Version

"...Holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God."

Colossians 2:19

"But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, Why this waste?"

"The disciples considered Mary's love offering to the Lord a waste.  Through the past twenty centuries thousands of precious lives, heart treasures, high positions, and golden futures have been 'wasted' upon the Lord Jesus.  To those who love Him in such a way He is altogether lovely and worthy of their offerings.  What they have poured upon Him is not a waste but a fragrant testimony of His sweetness."

Matthew 26:8 footnote 1
Holy Bible Recovery Version

"The wonderful Jesus, who is enthroned in heaven and crowned with glory and honor, is the greatest attraction in the universe.  He is like an immense magnet, drawing all His seekers to Him.  It is by being attracted by His charming beauty that we look away from all things other than Him.  Without such a charming object, how could we look away from so many distracting things on this earth?"

Hebrews 12:2 footnote 2
Holy Bible Recovery Version

"Enjoying God is the ultimate thing that can make us happy."

Augustine

To love the Lord with our best is to take time to behold Him.

God has one will: to work Himself into man and to mingle Himself with man.  Therefore, if we desire to know God's will in any situation, we must first ascertain whether the situation is conducive to the mingling of Himself with us.

Today, God's life is already in us but His authority is still in the process of being constituted into us.

"Then they were willing to take him into the boat; and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going."

John 6:21

Faith is not to believe that He is willing or He is able.  Faith is to believe that it is done.

"The deeper the flow of grace is in us, the more we abandon our self-effort, forsake our own direction, and allow the flow to carry us on."

Ezekiel 47:5 footnote 1
Holy Bible Recovery Version

"Give yourself to love the Lord. No other way is so prevailing, and no other way is so safe, so rich, and so full of enjoyment. Just love Him. Do not care for anything else. Teachings, doctrines, gifts, and power do not mean much. We must continually tell the Lord, “Lord, keep me in Your love! Attract me with Yourself! Keep me all the time in Your loving presence!” If we will pray in this way, we will see what love we will have toward the Lord and what kind of life we will live. We will simply live by the Lord Himself. As long as we love Him from the deepest part of our being, everything will be all right. If we need wisdom, He will be the wisdom to us. If we need power, He will be the power. If we need the proper and adequate knowledge, He will even be that to us. Whatever we need, He is. Do not try to get anything else; just look to Him that He would reveal His love to you."

Life and Building as Portrayed in the Song of Songs
Witness Lee

Resurrection is only a breath away.

Resurrection is not an event.  Resurrection is a Person.

"Come and let us return to Jehovah; For He has torn us, but He will heal us, And He has stricken us, but He will bind us up.  He will enliven us after two days; On the third day He will raise us up, And we will live in His presence."

Hosea 6:1-2

"Faithful is He who calls you, who also will do it."

1 Thessalonians 5:24

"In tenderness He deals with me
While I stay with joy in His presence
And He saturates and supplies my soul
With all His precious essence.
And He speaks to me and reveals to me
All His riches for me today
And in everyway I partake of Him
My problems all passed away."

Hymn 554

"If the journey which many Christians take is not contrary to the wind, I doubt whether such a journey is ordained by the Lord.  We should take the journey that the Lord has ordained.  The Lord pays attention to every step we take.  He knows how great out temptations are and how difficult our circumstances are.  He will not let us endure beyond the fourth watch.  When the night is far advanced, He comes to us.  As soon as the Lord comes, everything is fine.  Thank and praise the Lord, the wind may be contrary, but it will not remain contrary forever.  Though rowing is a toil, we will not need to row forever."

Collected Works of Watchman Nee, Vol 10 page 423-33

"For indeed He was crucified out of weakness, but He lives by the power of God.  For indeed, we are weak in Him, but we will live together with Him by the power of God directed toward you."

2 Corinthians 13:4

Oh the blessed rest it brings us
To belong to Christ alone
We can draw on all His fulness
When we've nothing of our own.

Hymn 452

"Don't look for greater things.  Don't look for things other than they are.  Don't set your expectation on some great vision or on some great experience.  And don't expect anything outward, for the God who hides Himself is at work within your life, and He is working mightily.  Your responsibility is to cooperate with Him by responding to His voice within - that 'still small voice,' that voice that seems so much a part of your own feelings that you scarcely recognize it as a voice at all.  To that voice, registered in the deepest depths of your being, you must say, 'Amen,' for there, secretly and ceaselessly, the God who hides Himself is working."

A God Who Hides Himself, pg 20
Witness Lee

"Sometimes when you are out on the street or in your room, thoughts such as these come to you - 'What is the purpose of my life?  What is the Lord getting out of it?' - and it does not dawn upon you that that is the Lord at work within you.  Let me tell you: Those faint registrations in the depths of your being, those slight suggestions you thought were wholly your own because they were so natural - those were the Lord's doing.  The God who hides Himself is at work within your life, but He has hidden Himself so effectively that you have been quite unconscious of His activity.  And He is working outwardly as well as inwardly - in your home, in your business, in all your circumstances.  He is creating many situations and is active in many directions, though He lets you sense nothing of it, until you imagine these things have been just come about naturally; but both the inner and outer conditions of your life are under His control."

A God Who Hides Himself, pg 18-19

Witness Lee

"Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace."

Hymn 645

God's way is little by little, day by day.  The Lord's way of life is to give us small amounts of Himself day by day.

"Your Leader will lead you to walk an untrodden way, to go down a path you never dreamed of.  He is afraid of nothing, and He wishes you to be afraid of nothing also.  He is with you.  In desperate situations it is His joy to see His children grasping His hands."

Watchman Nee

"...The things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the beginning of the creation of God."

Revelation 3:14

"Day by day, and with each passing moment
Strength I find to meet my trials here
Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment
I've no cause for worry or for fear.
He, whose heart is kind beyond all measure,
Gives unto each day what He deems best,
Lovingly its part of pain and pleasure,
Mingling toil with peace and rest."

Hymn 713

"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."

Blaise Pascal

"The Canaanite woman did not come to the Lord because she was hungry; she came because her daughter was sick.  But the Lord turned the situation to the matter of eating...Although the woman's request had nothing to do with eating, the Lord purposely related her case to the matter of eating to show us that what we need is not outward washing, but eating for the inward nourishing.  In his doctrinal arrangement Matthew put these matters together that we might understand that for the kingdom of the heavens we do not need outward cleansing, but what we need is for Christ to get into us...The Lord seemed to be saying to the Canaanite woman, 'You don't need healing.  You need Me!  And you do not need me outwardly; you need Me inwardly.  You need to eat Me.  I came as bread for people to eat, to digest, and to assimilate.  I would like to get into your being, into your system, vessels, and fibers.  I would like to get into your very constituent and become you.  Thus, you need to eat Me.  Don't deal with things in an outward way.  Rather, deal with everything in an inward way by taking Me into you.  As long as I can get into you to nourish you, every problem will be solved.'"

Life-Study of Matthew, Chapter 46, Page 551

"We are destined, made, and saved so that somehow in His manifold wisdom and way, He may work all that He is into every fiber of our being."

"If God leads you to walk a way that you know, it will not benefit you as much as if He would lead you to tae the way that you do not know.  This forces you to have hundreds and thousands of conversations with Him, resulting in a journey that is an everlasting memorial between you and Him."

Watchman Nee

"By all these steps of work divine
Thou hast established praise.
With overflowig hearts to Thee
Our joyful voice we raise."

Hymn 1097

"Therefore my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord."

1 Corinthians 15:58

"You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. "

A.B. Simpson

"When we wait on the eternal God, we are terminated and replaced by Him, and then we have Him as our life and power, which is the power of resurrection.  This power strengthens us and enables us to mount up with wings as eagles and to soar above the earth."

Life-Study of Isaiah, Chapter 44

"That I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a laboring priest of the gospel of God, in order that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit."

Romans 15:16

"He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no vigor He multiplies strength.  Although youths will faint and become weary, and young men will collapse exhausted; yet those who wait on Jehovah will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and will not faint; they will walk and will not become weary."

Isaiah 40:29-31

"Until we all arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."

Ephesians 4:13

Every morning reviving.
Every day overcoming.

"The highest profession on earth is to spend time being infused with God that we may shine forth God.  This is far greater than doing anything for God.  If we would shine forth God, we need to send time with Him, not to do something but to have Him transfused into our being."

Life-Study of Exodus, Chapter 62

"God is faithful in whatever He says. This is the rainbow. Whenever a cloud comes, you must call God's faithfulness to come. That means that you call out the rainbow. There is a verse for every circumstance that you face. If you hold on to God's covenant...regardless of what happens to you, there is a verse as a living promise for you to rely upon and live by. We should not be threatened or frightened by the clouds of our convictions, feelings, and environments. We are under God's covenant, fully under His blessing."

Life-Study of Genesis, Chapter 32

"According to the entire revelation in the Holy Bible, God's words are good for us to eat, and we need to eat them (Psa. 119:103; Matt. 4:4; Heb. 5:12-14; 1 Pet. 2:2-3). God's word is the divine supply as food to nourish us. Through the word as our food, God dispenses His riches into our inner being to nourish us that we may be constituted with His element. This is a crucial aspect of God's economy. When we eat God's words, His word becomes our heart's gladness and joy."

Jeremiah 15:16 footnote 1
Holy Bible Recovery Version

"As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me."

John 6:57

"And she said, Yes, Lord, for even the little dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

Matthew 15:27