We believers in Christ need to be victorious over the demonic diet given to us by the ruler of this age by eating Jesus for the building up of the church, and we need to be victorious over the devilish blinding preventing people from seeing the great human image and the crushing stone as the divine history within human history.
Lord Jesus, make us Your overcoming saints today. May we be those who overcome one spirit with You. Oh Lord, what about our eating? May we learn to discern what we eat and never partake of the demonic food. Save us from eating what this world has to offer in so many ways. We want to eat You so that we may be filled with You. We want to eat Jesus for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ today! Amen!
We want to be Daniel and his companions today; we want to pursue Christ together with our companions, and we want to live an overcoming life on the line of life to fulfil the economy of God.
This means that we need to be open to the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, for the Triune God is dispensing Himself into us to obtain a corporate expression of Himself.
He is dispensing all that He is in Christ as the Spirit into our being, and on our side, we need to enjoy Him, experience Him, and express Him.
As we receive and enjoy the divine dispensing, as we find grace in the eyes of the Lord day by day, we can live an overcoming life, the life of an overcomer.
An overcoming life is a life under the dispensing of the Triune God; as we remain open to the divine dispensing, we can have an overcoming life and we can fulfill the economy of God.
As we consider Daniel and his companions with their experiences of being victorious in the first six chapters of Daniel, we realise that they were absolutely one with God in their victory over Satan’s devices.
Satan attacked again and again, and some attacks and devices were obvious while others were a bit more subtle. In all these situations, Daniel and his companions were absolutely one with God and overcame the enemy.
Some of the experiences they went through were outright ridiculous, for they were even thrown in a fiery furnace; other experiences were their choice, for they chose not to eat the king’s choice food.
May we learn to be absolutely one with God so that, no matter what experiences come our way, whether we’re in the fire or we simply choose not to defile ourselves with the demonic food in this world, we would overcome and be victorious one with the Lord over Satan’s devices and schemes.
Eating Jesus for the Building up of the Church to be Victorious over the Demonic Diet
In Daniel chapter 1 we see these four young, brilliant dear ones from the captives taken from the people of Israel, Daniel and his three companions.
They made a bold choice: they did not want to defile themselves with the king’s choice provision and with the wine that the king drank, for all these were unclean and defiling, having been offered to idols (Dan. 1:8).
So Daniel set his heart not to defile himself, and he requested from the leader of the eunuchs that he and his companions would rather have vegetables.
Therefore, the steward withheld their portion of the choice provision and the wine that they were to drink and gave them vegetables.
Daniel understood that, for him and his companions to eat that food from the king would have been to take in the defilement and to take in the idols, thus becoming one with Satan (1 Cor. 10:19-21).
We need to be concerned about our eating. God is concerned with our eating. Eating is a union in life; whatever we eat, we are joined to, and whatever we take in, becomes part of us.
People today indulge themselves in all kinds of worldly entertainment and activities; all these are a demonic diet. People eat many worldly things and they are far away from God.
When Daniel and his companions refused to eat Nebuchadnezzar’s unclean food and chose instead to eat vegetables (Dan. 1:8-16), in principle they rejected the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (cf. Gen. 3:1-6) and took the tree of life, which caused them to be one with God (cf. 2:9, 16-17).
We need to realise that God wants us to eat Him as the tree of life, and He still does not want us to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eating is a matter of life and death.
The result and destiny of man before God fully depends on what he eats. If we eat the tree of life, we will gain the life of God and fulfil the purpose of God.
But if we eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we will be united with Satan, and this results in death. May we reject the demonic food and therefore not be associated with demons and idols.
May we eat the tree of life – may we eat Jesus for the building up of the church – so that we may be one with God for the fulfilment of His purpose.
What do we eat? There may be a secular holiday, and we may just go along and do what others do, celebrating this or eating that, even having a feast and being merry.
Do we just allow ourselves to be in what the worldly people are, do what they do, and eat what they eat, even behave the way they behave? This age is an age of indulgence; people tend to eat a lot of demonic diet.
Even our own mobile phones, which are so useful to fellowship with the saints, can be a gateway for us to eat so much demonic diet, for it is streamed to us personally wherever we are. We need to be careful in what we eat.
We need to pay attention to eating Jesus for the building up of the church.
Again and again, we need to place ourselves under the hearing of the faith, that is, be in the meetings with the saints, attend conferences, and be in trainings, so that we may be filled with the word of God and eat the proper food, even eat heavenly food.
The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of the eating of Jesus for the building up of the church (Rev. 2:7. 17; 3:20).
The Lord today is calling His overcomers who are victorious over the demonic diet by eating Jesus for the building up of the church.
He promises to the overcomers that He will give them to eat of the tree of life; this is not only for the future but also for today.
Today we can and should eat the tree of life. We need to overcome by eating Jesus and we need to eat so that we may overcome.
He is the tree of life, the hidden manna, and the feast that is ever new; we overcome by eating Jesus.
We grow in life by eating Jesus for the building up of the church. We need to eat Jesus to grow, to be transformed, and to be built up together. Then, we will have the building of the church.
We need to read and pray the word of God so that we may eat Jesus in His word. The Lord is so sweet and wonderful in His word, and when we eat Him, we are constituted with Him and we live because of Him.
We need to pray-read the Word of God and prayerfully read the spiritual books so that we may be richly nourished. As we eat the Lord, we behold His face, and we are infused with Him.
We can eat Jesus by eating His words and by being careful to contact and be with those who call on Him out of a pure heart (Jer. 15:16; 2 Tim. 2:22; 1 Cor. 15:33; Prov. 13:20).
On the positive side, we exercise our spirit to contact the Lord and pray over His word; on the negative side, we are very careful who we spend time with, for our being with people is an eating.
We want to be with our companions, pursuing the Lord and calling on Him out of a pure heart so that we may be those eating Jesus for the building up of the church!
Lord Jesus, we set our heart not to defile ourselves with the demonic food in this world. We give ourselves to You today. We want to eat of the tree of life and we reject what comes from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Amen, Lord, keep us coming to You in spirit again and again to touch You and enjoy You. May we find Your words and eat them. May Your words be sweet and nourishing to us day by day. Lord Jesus, we exercise our spirit to come to Your word to partake of Your riches in the word. Hallelujah, we can eat Jesus by eating His words! Amen, Lord, Your words were found and we ate them, and they became the gladness and rejoicing of our heart. Recover our eating of Jesus for the building up of the church. May we eat Christ and not eat the demonic food this world freely offer us. Amen, Lord, we want to eat You as the tree of life, the hidden manna, and the feast that is ever new! May we eat Jesus to grow in life, be transformed, and be built together! Hallelujah, eating Jesus is the way!
Being Victorious over the Devilish Blinding Preventing People from Seeing the Great Human Image and Christ as the Crushing Stone
In Daniel chapter 2 we see how Daniel and his companions were victorious over the devilish blinding that prevents people from seeing the great human image and the crushing stone as the divine history within human history.
The god of this age blinds people not to see Christ and the real situation in the world today.
People are so blinded today that, like the king in Daniel’s time, they see things but cannot understand them, and they see the world situation and the situation in society but they do not know what is really going on, and many of them are even troubled by it.
People today are blinded by Satan so that they don’t see the full economy of God in the universe.
King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of a great human image, and there was a stone cut without hands that struck the image at its feet and destroyed it, and that stone became a great mountain filling the whole earth.
The great human image represents the totality of human government from beginning to end; it is the aggregate of human government.
But people cannot see it; they can’t see that humanity is building this great human image of many sections.
Even more, people today can’t see that there’s a crushing stone that will come, Christ with His overcomers; this stone will crush the aggregate of human government.
Just as Daniel and his friends prayed and received the divine revelation to see the real situation and the explanation of this vision, so we need to pray and be victorious over Satan’s blinding today.
We need to ask the Lord to keep our spiritual eyes clear and bright so that we may see His economy in the universe, which is the divine history within the human history.
The corporate Christ as the stone and the mountain, the Bridegroom with His bride, the corporate man of God with the breath of God, will crush and slay Antichrist and his armies by the breath, the sword, of His mouth (Dan 2:34-35, 44-45; 2 Thes. 2:8; Rev. 19:11-21; Gen. 11:4-9; cf. Isa. 33:22).
At the end of this age, Antichrist will be the last emperor of the revived Roman Empire, and he will come with his armies to fight against God directly.
The consummate manifestation of the aggregate of human government will make war with God.
The human government has three characteristics: rebellion against God, the exaltation of man, and idol worship.
Eventually, human government in its consummate form will rebel against God and fight against Christ; but praise the Lord, He is building up the church to prepare His bride to be the corporate warrior who will come with Christ to strike the great human image and destroy it!
We want to be part of that corporate crushing stone to return with Christ and deal with Antichrist and his armies!
Then, we will bring the kingdom of God over the whole earth! Amen!
Christ, as the living and precious stone, foundation stone, cornerstone, and topstone of God’s building, infuses us with Himself as the preciousness to transform us into living and precious stones for His building (1 Pet. 2:4-8; Isa. 28:16; Zech. 3:9; 4:7, 9-10).
May we allow the Lord to infuse us with Himself to make us living stones, precious stones for God’s building. As we come to Him, a living stone, we also become living stones.
And we are built together as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God. If we want to participate and be part of the bridal army, we need to be transformed.
May we drink the milk of the word and grow in life until we are transformed into the image of Christ, even to be a living stone and a precious stone as He is!
May we overcome the blinding work of the devil and may we be one with the Lord in His coming to crush human government!
Lord Jesus, make us Your overcomers today, those who are victorious over the devilish blinding hindering people from seeing God’s economy! May we see that there’s a great human image being built up today, the totality of the human government. Oh Lord, may we come to You as a living stone so that we may also become living stones, those transformed into Your image and built up with the saints. Make us part of the corporate smiting stone coming to destroy human government. Amen, Lord, we want to live in the divine history within human history today by calling on Your name, eating You in Your word, drinking the milk of the word, and being transformed and built up! Praise the Lord that Christ as the living and precious stone infuses us as the preciousness to transform us into living and precious stones for God’s building! Amen, Lord, we are one with You today. We come to Your word to drink the milk of the word so that by it we may grow unto salvation. We come to You as a living stone to be transformed and built up in God’s building!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Daniel, pp. 33-34, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Noah, Daniel, and Job – Patterns of Living an Overcoming Life on the Line of Life to Fulfill the Economy of God (2026 International Chinese-Speaking Conference), week 3, The Victory of the Overcomers Seen with Daniel and His Companions – day 2.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Eating is man’s destiny / And the Lord’s recovery; / This defeats the enemy— / Overcome! / Come enjoy the tree of life, / Leave the doctrines, leave the strife! / Overcome by eating Christ— / Overcome! (Hymns #1273 stanza 2)
– How may we express such oneness, / be divine and shining too? / Hallelujah, eating Jesus is the way! / He’s the tree of life, the manna, / and the feast that’s ever new— / Hallelujah, we may eat Him every day! / We are one by eating Jesus! / We’re divine by eating Jesus! / How we shine by eating Jesus! / Hallelujah, eating Jesus is the way! (Hymns #1226 stanza 4 and chorus)
– By the flow of life divine, / Man becomes a precious stone / Fit for building God’s abode, / That His glory might be known. / ’Tis the city God hath built, / ’Tis the dwelling God requires, / ’Tis the new Jerusalem / Which fulfills His heart’s desires. (Hymns #972 stanzas 3-4)
