"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