As believers in Christ who love the Lord and yearn to have a new revival, we look at the Lord’s pattern of living the life of a God-man in the Gospels and learn from Him, and we realise that we can live such a life today by setting our entire being on the mingled spirit, walking, living, and having our being according to the spirit.
Amen, Lord Jesus, we want to learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus. We come to You in Your word. Speak to us. Infuse us with Yourself as our pattern. We take You as the model for living the life of a God-man. Save us from thinking we know what do and what to say. May we live a life of dependence on the Lord, being under the vision of God’s eternal economy. Amen, Lord, we want to live the life of a God-man to be Your overcomers who become Zion, building up the church and consummating the New Jerusalem! Amen!
How we thank and praise the Lord for showing us the vision of God’s eternal economy according to which He became man to make us the same as He is so that He may gain a corporate expression of Himself in humanity.
He became man, putting on the human nature, and He then became a life-giving Spirit to dispense Himself into us to make us the same as He is.
Now we are going through a process, for we believers in Christ are the reproduction and continuation of Christ today.
We read the New Testament and see the pattern of the Lord in the Gospels, and this pattern is infused into us.
We don’t merely try to imitate Him outwardly; we open to Him, we admit we can’t do it, and we pray to allow the Lord to live in us. We want our life to be a copy of the model of the life of Christ, the first God-man.
As we live a life under the vision of the highest peak of the divine revelation, we want to live the life of a God-man, but we can’t do it; we need Christ to live in us.
Thank the Lord that He not only was incarnated and lived a perfect human life, the model of the life of a God-man, but He also went through death and resurrection and became a life-giving Spirit!
Now He is the Spirit of life and reality, and He breathed Himself into us to be with us and in us, guiding us in all things so that we may live Christ and do all things in oneness with the Lord.
May we prayerfully come to the Lord’s word to see what a Christ we have.
May we prayerfully consider His pattern in the Gospels not to try to do what He did but to be infused with what He is so that we may live the same kind of life today.
The Pattern of Christ as the First God-man who lived a God-man Life to Express God
At the very commencement of the first God-man’s ministry, before He even started to minister, Christ was baptised by John the Baptist.
He came to John and was baptised to fulfil all righteousness, recognising that according to His flesh (His humanity—1:14; Rom. 1:3; 8:3), He was good for nothing but death and burial (Matt. 3:15-17).
On the one hand, He was God, having no need to be baptised, for He was perfect and pure. On the other hand, He put upon Himself the flesh, which is related to sin and death, and because of this, He had to be put to death.
The Lord Jesus recognised that, according to His flesh (that is, His humanity), He was good for nothing except death and burial. He gave Himself to be baptised, and He remained in the reality of His baptism throughout His life.
He trained His disciples to learn from Him (11:29) in the miracle of feeding five thousand people with five loaves and two fish. We need to learn from the Lord.
When He fed the five thousand, first He looked up to heaven to bless the five loaves and two fish (14:19), which indicates that He realised that the source of blessing was not Him, the sent One, but the Father, the sending One (John 10:30; 5:19, 30; 7:6, 8, 18).
If it had been us, we may have remained in the aftermath of feeding so many people with so few things, and we may have a gathering to praise God about this. But not the Lord.
First, He took the Father as the source, recognising that He is not the Sender but the sent One, and He depended on the Father’s blessing.
Then, when all ate and were satisfied, He sent the crowds away and went away to be with the Father in a private way, personally, so that He may enjoy the fellowship with the Father.
We need to learn from Him. In our service for the Lord, in doing things for Him, in taking care of our children, we need to first look up to the Father.
We are not the source. We may have to discipline our children, or we may need to fellowship with someone; we first open to the Lord and take Him as the source.
May we learn to look up to the Lord again and again, stopping our being and taking God as the source of all our blessings.
We may even speak such a word to the children, imparting into them the truth that, even though daddy and mommy are working to take care of the family, it is God who provides, and He takes care of all our needs.
The Lord Jesus didn’t remain in the issue of the miracle with the crowds but rather, He went away from them to be with the Father privately on the mountain in prayer (Matt. 14:22-23; Luke 6:12).
He withdrew from the crowds and even from His disciples so that He may be with the Father in prayer.
He took the Father as the source of the blessing and supply, and He returned to the Father to worship Him and fellowship with Him after the miracle was performed. What a pattern!
Throughout the Gospels we see that the Lord Jesus lived a life of contacting God (Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16; 6:12; 9:28; Heb. 7:25), living in the presence of God without ceasing (Acts 10:38c; John 8:29; 16:32), and of contacting people, ministering God into them to bring them into the jubilee of Gods New Testament economy (Luke 4:18-19; Heb. 8:2; cf. Gen. 14:18; Acts 6:4).
He contacted God, lived in God’s presence continually, and He also contacted people to minister God into them. He ministered to God and to man.
He was a man in whom Satan, the ruler of the world, had nothing (no ground, no chance, no hope, no possibility in anything) (see John 14:30b, cf. v. 20; 2 Cor. 12:2a; Col. 1:27; 2 Tim. 4:22; John 3:6b; 4:23-24; 1 John 5:4, 18).
Satan simply had no way in Him. Amen!
Such a One is our pattern, the model of living the life of a God-man. May we open to Him and let Him live in us the same kind of life today.
Lord Jesus, we take You as our model in living the life of a God-man. Thank You for setting up a pattern by Your human living on earth. Amen, Lord, we want to follow Your pattern by exercising our spirit and living in the mingled spirit today. We want to learn from You by realising that, according to our flesh, we are good for nothing but death and burial. We place ourselves under the cross and we allow the cross to deal with us and terminate us. Oh Lord, we look to You and we take You as our source. We are not the source of blessing: You are. We come to You with all our needs and concerning all our needs. We want to be one with You and spend much time with You privately in prayer. Amen, Lord, may we life a life of contacting God, living in the presence of God without ceasing, and also of contacting man, ministering God into them to bring them into the jubilee of God’s New Testament economy! We love You, Lord, and we love to be in Your presence. We want to bring Your presence to men and bless them with Your presence. Live in us today the life of a God-man for God’s expression!
Live the Life of a God-man According to the Lord’s Model by Living in the Mingled Spirit
When we read the Gospels and see the wonderful human living of the Lord Jesus, we may be so encouraged and excited, for such a life is what we also want to have.
But the more we try to live in this way, even trying to speak the words that He spoke or have the same attitude, the more we fail.
The only way we believers in Christ can live the life of a God-man today according to the Lord’s model is to set our entire being on the mingled spirit where Christ is.
We live the life of a God-man by living, walking, and having our being according to the mingled spirit (Rom. 8:2, 4, 10, 6, 11, 16; 1 Cor. 6:17; Rom. 10:12; Gal. 5:25; Eph. 6:17-18; 1 Thes. 5:16-20; 1 Tim. 4:6-7; 2 Tim. 1:6-7).
This is the only way. Christ today is not only in the third heavens, enthroned far above all, but also in our mingled spirit, for He as the life-giving Spirit is joined to us as one spirit.
The only way we can live the life of a God-man and carry out the divine economy as we see it in the New Testament is by being in our spirit.
And we may think that being in our spirit is something quite abstract, until we realise that 1 Thessalonians 5:16-19 gives us some practical ways for us to be in spirit.
We can always rejoice, unceasingly pray, in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ for us. We should not quench the Spirit nor despise prophecies.
When we are in different situations, in suffering, or in the midst of turmoil, we need to simply unceasingly pray; the way we pray unceasingly is by calling on the name of the Lord. Oh Lord Jesus! Oh Loooord Jeeesuuus!
As we call on the name of the Lord, either outwardly or inwardly, not to bother others but to turn to the Lord in our spirit, we are in spirit!
We should not call on the name of the Lord in front of others to be seen by them or heard by them, neither should we call it in such a way that bothers them, for we know they are upset with us.
Rather, we need to go to a place where we can be alone with the Lord and simply call on His name. Just call on the name of the Lord, and fan your spirit into flame.
The way to live the life of a God-man according to the Lord’s model is simply by calling on the name of the Lord, rejoicing in the Lord, praising Him, and speaking of Him.
If we just stop and are one spirit with the Lord, even for a few seconds, the whole situation changes. In everything we need to give thanks to the Lord.
We know we should do this, but we rather complain than give thanks. We know we should call, and we may call on the Lord, but our calling may not be that deep.
We need to call from deep within, call in such a way that we touch and enjoy the person of the Lord Jesus. This doesn’t mean we need to be louder; we simply need to call the One who is so rich and who dispenses His riches into those who call on Him (Rom. 10:12-13).
The Lord is our portion. We thank Him for today. We thank Him for giving us life.
We thank Him for His precious blood. We thank Him that He did not abandon us but rather, He is still with us, even in us, one spirit with us. We thank Him that we are children of God.
We thank the Lord that we can partake of His divine nature. We thank Him that we have a spirit of power, a spirit of love, and a spirit of sobermindedness.
We thank Him that His love has been poured out into our heart. As we thank the Lord and pray, we are revived, and we are in spirit. This is the way to live the life of a God-man according to the model of the Lord Jesus.
He lived a life in constant contact with the Father, always speaking with the Father and even going away for a while just to be with the Father.
We learn to spend time with the Lord, pray unceasingly, thank Him in everything, and not quench the prophecies. We do not despise speaking for the Lord but rather, we speak Him forth, even if it is small.
May we all declare that we want to live the life of a God-man. We need to pray that the Lord would bring us into such a living.
Eventually, the God-men who live the life of a God-man will be the victors, the overcomers, the Zion within Jerusalem.
When God gain such a model of living the life of a God-man, a new revival will come in, a revival that has never been seen in history, and this will end this age.
May we open to the Lord concerning this and be before Him, praying to Him, and remaining one spirit with Him as we live and walk according to the spirit.
Lord Jesus, we want to live the life of a God-man according to Your pattern today. Amen, Lord, may we learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus by setting our mind on our spirit and living in the mingled spirit. We love You, Lord, and we want to live the same way You lived. May we set our entire being on our mingled spirit and walk, live, and have our being according to the mingled spirit. Amen, Lord, live in us today. We praise You for all things! We call on Your name. We love to turn to You and breathe You in by calling on Your name. Thank You that You are rich to all those who call on the name of the Lord. We thank You for all things. Thank You for mingling Yourself with us and for being our life. We thank and praise You for all things. We love to open to You, speak to You, and speak of You. Amen, Lord, we choose to live and walk according to the mingled spirit today! We want to live the life of a God-man so that we may be Your overcomers today, those who live in the reality of the Body of Christ for Your corporate expression! Amen!
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 brother Ricky Acosta on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994- 1997, vol. 3, “The God-man Living,” chs. 1-10, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Great Need for a New Revival (2026 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 1, “Cooperating with the Lord to Bring In a New Revival That Will End This Age” – day 4.
- Hymns on this topic:
– In our daily life and all we are and do and think and say, / How we need a deeper mingling just to gain the Lord each day; / Lord, we give ourselves completely just to take the mingled way. / Yes, mingling is the way. (Hymns #1199 stanza 5)
– Jesus lived the God-man pattern, / Set the way for us to follow, / He denied His natural man and / Was obedient unto death, / Once He was the only God-man; / Now we are His duplication. / As the many grains we’re blended / As His corporate reproduction. / Living out His resurrection, / Dying to the flesh and soul-life. / Living by the mingled spirit, / Natural man we will deny. / Now we’re living in the Body, / Every day we’re overcoming, / Striving for the peak of Zion, / Watching for our Lord’s appearing. (Song on, God has called us for His purpose, stanzas 2-3)
– Oh, what a thought! Oh, what a boast! / Christ shall in me be magnified. / In nothing shall I be ashamed, / For He in all shall be applied. / In woe or blessing, death or life, / Through me shall Christ be testified. / In woe or blessing, death or life, / Through me shall Christ be testified. (Hymns #499 stanza 3)
