第一週 • 週二
晨興餧養
約一14 話成了肉體，支搭帳幕在我們中間…。
林前十五45 …末後的亞當成了賜生命的靈。
啟五6 我又看見…羔羊站立，像是剛被殺過的，有七角和七眼，就是神的七靈…。
神中心的啟示就是神成為肉體，這肉體成了賜生命的靈，這賜生命的靈又成了七倍加強的靈，為要建造召會，產生基督的身體，終極完成新耶路撒冷。…這靈是為着建造召會，召會要成為基督的身體，終極完成新耶路撒冷，作神經綸的最後目標。…今天主的恢復，就是恢復這些關於神永遠經綸行動中，有關神的靈緊要的點（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第四冊，一一三頁）。
信息選讀
我相當關心所有的同工和長老。他們許多人可能對於主的恢復是甚麼，沒有完全的領會。人若請我們解釋今天恢復是甚麼，我們應該能彀用一句簡單的話回答：主的恢復乃是神成了肉體，肉體成了賜生命的靈，賜生命的靈成了七倍加強的靈，為要建造召會，成為基督的身體，終極完成新耶路撒冷（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第四冊，一一四頁）。
基督使祂自己這第一個神人成為一個原型，好大量複製許多弟兄—許多神人（羅八29）。我作基督徒六十九年了。經過這麼多年，神叫我只知道這一件事，就是神成為人，為要使人在生命和性情上，但不在神格上，成為神。這是我惟一的負擔，我惟一的資訊。神與人要成為一個實體，而這一個實體，就是神性與人性的調和。這個調和要終極完成於新耶路撒冷，那就是整本聖經的總結（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第二冊，六八頁）。
最近我與同工、長老們交通，對他們說了很率直的話。我說，『弟兄們，你們有許多人為主作工，還是在作事務。你們那樣在聖徒中間領頭，不是照着靈，乃是照着你們自己的那種認識。所以你們就造出許多的形式，而要別人來作你所定規的形式。這常常會引起意見，甚至分裂。』所有的同工和長老，從今天起，應該有所改變。你們蒙主呼召，不是作同工或長老來實行一些形式。你們蒙主呼召、為主所立，乃是要實行神的經綸，而神的經綸完全是以基督為中心，以基督為實際。若是沒有基督，就沒有神的經綸。我們在主的恢復裏、在召會中，可能每一天都很忙碌，我們也可能很殷勤、很忠心，但我們作的事卻不是神經綸的內容、實際和中心。所以我們需要轉。
我向主禱告：『主阿，求你使我們在你的恢復裏，有一次真正、真實的復興。』…我們今天急切的需要，就是實行過一種屬於神人的生活，這些神人乃是神經綸的組成分子。…所有長老、同工應該追求這個實際，好〔使他們和他們所在的召會〕被主作成模型，就是活在神經綸裏的模型。…這就是在我的禱告裏我所說真正的復興。…如果〔眾〕召會都是這樣的模型，那就會是一個很強的見證（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第一冊，二三四、二三八頁）。
參讀：基督徒的生活，第二篇；三一神的啟示與行動，第一至二篇。
WEEK 1 — DAY 2
Morning Nourishment
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us…
1 Cor. 15:45 …The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.
Rev. 5:6 And I saw…a Lamb standing as having just been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God…
The central revelation of God is God becoming flesh, the flesh becoming the life-giving Spirit, and the life-giving Spirit becoming intensified sevenfold to build up the church to issue in the Body of Christ and to consummate the New Jerusalem…This Spirit is to build up the church, which becomes the Body of Christ consummating the New Jerusalem as the final goal of God’s economy…The Lord’s recovery today is just the recovery of these critical points concerning the Spirit of God in the move of God’s eternal economy. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” p. 92)
Today’s Reading
I am quite concerned for all the co-workers and elders. It may be that a good number of them do not have a complete understanding of what the Lord’s recovery is. If we are asked to explain what the recovery is today, we should be able to answer in one simple sentence: The Lord’s recovery is God becoming the flesh, the flesh becoming the life-giving Spirit, and the lifegiving Spirit becoming the sevenfold intensified Spirit to build up the church that becomes the Body of Christ and that consummates the New Jerusalem. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” pp. 92-93)
Christ made Himself, the first God-man, a prototype for the mass reproduction of many brothers, the many God-men (Rom. 8:29). I have been a Christian for about sixty-nine years. After so many years I have been made by God to know only one thing—God became man so that man may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. This is my unique burden, my unique message. God and man will become one entity, and that one entity is the mingling of divinity with humanity. This mingling will consummate in the New Jerusalem, which is the conclusion of the entire Bible. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, “The Practical Way to Live a Life according to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures,” p. 55)
I recently fellowshipped with the co-workers and elders by speaking a very frank word to them. I said, “Brothers, many of you still work for the Lord by doing affairs. Your kind of taking the lead among the saints is not according to the spirit but according to your kind of realization. So you made a number of formalities, asking others to perform your formalities. This often causes opinions and even divisions.” All the co-workers and elders from today onward should have a change. You have not been called by the Lord as a co-worker or an elder to carry out formalities. You have been called and assigned by the Lord to carry out God’s economy, and God’s economy is altogether centered on Christ, taking Christ as its reality. Without Christ, there is no economy of God. We may be very busy every day in the Lord’s recovery in the church, and we may be very diligent and faithful, yet we do things that are not the contents, the reality, and the center of God’s economy. So we need a turn.
I pray, “Lord, grant us in Your recovery to have a genuine, real revival.”… The urgent need today is the practice of a kind of living that belongs to God-men, and the God-men are the very components of God’s economy. All the elders and co-workers should pursue this reality so that they [and their churches] will be made into a model by the Lord, a model living in the economy of God…In my prayer, this is what I call the genuine revival…If all [the] churches would be such a model, that would be a prevailing testimony. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “Living a Life according to the High Peak of God’s Revelation,” pp. 195-196, 198)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” ch. 2; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The Triune God’s Revelation and His Move,” chs. 1—2
