“What is the Lord’s recovery? It is not so easy to answer this question. First of all, we must see the real significance of the word recovery. It means that something was there originally, yet it became lost. Now it must be recovered. Hence, when we speak of the Lord’s recovery, it means that the Lord had certain things in the beginning, which at a certain stage became lost. Now He must recover all the things that have become lost.”

The first of those things is the matter of life. The Lord’s recovery today is first to recover the matter of life. The Lord’s recovery is also to recover the matters of the Spirit and the church. In a general way, these terms are familiar to most Christians, but their real significance has been lost. Finally, the Lord’s recovery is to recover the matter of the kingdom, which is constituted with life, the Spirit, and the church. Although the crucial aspects of these matters have been lost, year after year the Lord has been recovering them. This is His recovery.