Revelation 3:8

Revelation 3:8 I know your works; behold, I have put before you an opened door which no one can shut, because you have a little power and have kept My word and have not denied My name. 

The condition for rapture is to manifest spiritual power for the Lord, to keep His word, and to exalt His name. If we walk according to our own will every day and do not keep the Lord's word, we are dreaming if we hope to have the right of rapture. It is important to exalt the Lord's name and to draw close to the Lord Himself. We need a deeper death to ourselves so that we can set aside our own confused thoughts and keep the Lord's word which opposes our natural preferences. We should have a deeper death toward the world so that we can forsake everything and can have an uninterrupted fellowship with the Lord Himself. The Lord cannot take us to a heaven to which we have no pleasure in going. He cannot drag us to a presence in which we have no joy in remaining. These things must first have their basis on earth before they will have their consummation in heaven. It is vain for us to talk about the Lord Jesus' coming every day. What is needed is the adequate preparation. 

- Collected Works of Watchman Nee, The (Set 1) Vol. 05: The Christian (3), Chapter 3