Answer God’s Call to be One with Him in His Move on Earth, Here I am, Lord, Send me!

The Lord moves in our move, and He has a need on earth for many of His believers to be one with Him in their daily living and in their move to spread the truth and preach the gospel to the whole inhabited earth.

Amen, what a privilege it is for us to do this!

This week in our enjoyment of the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Material Offerings and the Lord’s Move Today, we come to week 4 entitled, Material Offerings for the Lord’s Move.

It is one thing to know and realize that God is moving, and it is something even deeper and higher for us to be one with God in His move in the Body.

Yes, God has been moving throughout the ages, and human history confirms this; but it is up to us if we cooperate with Him in His move.

We need to cooperate with God in His move on earth today, and this requires our whole being.

Our daily living and our whole Christian and church life need to be governed by the vision of God’s move.

He is moving in our moving, and if we move, He moves; but if we don’t move, if we don’t cooperate with Him to move, He has no way to move.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that we need to uproot ourselves from where we are and go to a distant country for God’s move; rather, it means that we need to simply be one with the moving God, allowing Him to move in us.

The Lord may move in us where we are, for He wants to reach out to our neighbours and feed them with the solid truth in God’s word.

The Lord may also cause us to pray for His move and He may burden us to move to Europe or to Israel for the Lord’s move.

This is not something done or organised by man; this is of the Lord, the Head of the Body, the One who moves in and through the members of the Body.

We need to take a look at the world situation with the glasses of God’s economy and having God’s move in view.

When we do this, we will realize that both major and minor events are happening not merely because people want democracy and liberty but because God is moving, and many cooperate with Him first in prayer, and then they cooperate by giving and moving.

What a privilege it is for us today to see God’s move and to cooperate with His move through prayer, giving, and going!

He moves in man and through man; if He has a group of people who cooperate with Him, He will have a free way to move, but if we don’t cooperate, He will have to go to a different group of people who would.

May we open to the Lord and say Amen to His move, and may we cooperate with His move on earth today!

The Lord’s Move in the Spread of His Recovery on Earth has to be Established in Europe and Israel

It is quite amazing to look at the world situation and see God’s move throughout the centuries!

If we have the glasses of God’s economy on and focus on God’s move when we look at human history, we will realize that events don’t just happen by chance, nor is it man who initiates political changes, but it is God who operates behind the scene!

The Lord’s move is like a great wheel that moves all over the earth; however, our move one with His move is like the outer wheel, of which the inner wheel (the Lord’s move) is the motor and motivating factor.

The Lord’s move in our move is the wheel within the wheel that Ezekiel saw in Ezek. 1.

For example, right after the Gulf War, the Lord started to open up Russia for the gospel, for His move; many saints have prayed for decades for the Lord to break through in this country and bring in the light of the gospel.

Through fellowship and visitation, there was a clear sense that there’s much openness and immense hunger among the people in Russia and in Eastern Europe, and many there want to know the higher truth in the word of God.

The Lord has opened up the truth to us in the Lord’s recovery through the ministry of the age, and we have the privilege to have it all in the books.

Furthermore, the Lord’s recovery has been established in the United States of America and in the Far East, but what about Europe and Russia?

So in the early 1990s, when the Iron Curtain fell, what happened was not only that those oppressed under the communist regime wanted to break free, but that the Lord was moving.

The Lord had a rich way to move in Eastern Europe and in Russia, and the Lord continues to move.

The Lord’s recovery and His move has a direction: He wants to gain Europe.

Yes, there are many local churches in Europe, but the situation is still not that developed – there is a great need for many more lampstands to be raised up, and the local churches need to be established, built up, and strengthened.

The Lord’s recovery must spread to Europe and be rooted here; as those who live in Europe, we can testify that there is a rich spiritual history in Europe, but there’s a lack in the matter of the Lord’s present move.

The Lord wants to intensify His move in Europe, for He wants to spread the truths of the Lord’s recovery in Europe as a preparation for the Lord’s coming back to bring the recovery and restoration not only to Israel but also to the entire creation.

He wants to gain His overcomers in Europe, those who are in the local churches and have an ear to hear what the Spirit speaks to the churches.

The Lord wants to move in the vast land of Europe and recover the first love of so many of His dear believers who are in denominations but have no way to go on, many who want to bring the Lord back but do not have the high peak truth of the divine revelation.

May we be those who cooperate with the Lord in His move on earth today, realizing that He wants to spread to Europe and eventually reach Israel, so that He may bring in recovery and restoration.

May we give ourselves to the Lord for His move today, asking Him to rekindle our love for Him.

Especially these days, as we live at the consummation of this age, we need to love the Lord and rekindle our love for Him, so that we may be organically one with Him for and in His move.

Lord Jesus, we love You! Rekindle our love for You. We give ourselves to You, dear Lord, at the consummation of the age; cause our love for You to burn more and more. Make us one with You in Your move on earth today. We don’t want to hinder You, Lord; we want to be one with You in what You are doing today. Have Your way in us, Lord, and among us; have Your way to spread the truth, the gospel of the kingdom to Europe and to Israel! Yes, Lord Jesus, we are one with You for Your ultimate move. Gain many more lampstands in Europe. Gain Your bright, shining testimony in this dark continent. Lord, produce Your overcomers and bring in the end of this age! Yes, Lord, bring in recovery and restoration! We are one with You for Your move!

Answering God’s Call to be One with Him in His Move on Earth, Here I am, Lord, Send me!

It is a privilege for us in the church life to know that God is moving on earth today; it is a privilege to see God’s move and be infused with a burden for the Lord’s move.

Isaiah was one who saw the Lord, and he heard the Lord’s calling, Whom shall I send? Who will go for us? So he responded, Here I am, send me (Isa. 6:8).

He was a man of unclean lips, born in sin and full of uncleanness, but he heard the Lord’s call and presented himself to the Lord for His move.

He didn’t know what was awaiting him as he gave himself to the Lord, but he saw the Lord and responded to His call.

Similarly today, the Lord wants to accomplish and carry out His ultimate move, and He is moving in Europe on His way to Israel, so that He may gain His overcomers and increase the number of shining lampstands for His testimony.

What should our response be to the Lord as we see His move?

What should our spontaneous reaction be toward His move today?

May we not wait for persecution in order to move; may we not just stay where we are, having no consciousness or desperate prayer for the Lord’s move.

In Acts 8:1 we see that, even though there were portions of Israel that didn’t hear the gospel, many of the disciples moved out of Jerusalem (because of the persecution that arose) and spread the truths to the lands around them.

They didn’t wait for the completion of the gospel in the Holy Land but rather, they were burdened by the Lord to bring the gospel to other places.

Philip went to Samaria and preached the gospel there, and then later he preached the gospel to the Ethiopian eunuch. In this way, the divine truths were spread from the Jewish believers and the Holy Land to the Gentiles and the Gentile nations.

This is the first mentioning of the migration for the spreading of the gospel, and it can be considered as a basic principle for the spreading of the gospel, including the divine truths.

Regardless or whether or not the divine truths have reached the entire United States or the Far East, the Lord has already gained a strong testimony there, and it is time that He moves toward Europe for the raising up of lampstands in Europe for His testimony there. Amen!

But who will be like Isaiah today, giving themselves to the Lord for His move? Who will spontaneously say, Here I am, Lord, send me?

The Lord is looking for many who are not set, settled, and occupied, but who are willing to be uprooted and move for the Lord’s move in Europe.

He wants to gain many who are strong and take action (Dan. 11:32).

May we be those who do something noble which may be considered as an achievement by giving ourselves to the Lord for His move today. May we be those who show strength and take action, being one with the Lord in His move.

We need to start with prayer; we first pray by joining ourselves to the Lord and releasing in prayer the burden for His move.

Through prayer, we lay the tracks for Him to move, and as we pray, we are burdened for what He wants to do, and all other things fade away.

What is the value of merely having a good job, a good house, a nice car, and a good career on earth, when you can participate in God’s move on earth today?

Nothing compares to being part of His stepping stone in this age, being one who hastens His return by being one with Him in His move.

May we open to Him concerning this and tell Him,

Lord Jesus, grant us to see God’s move on earth today. Grant us to have ears to hear Your call. Amen, Lord, here we are, send us. We join ourselves to You for Your desire to be one with You in Your move. Make us sendable; save us from being set, settled, and occupied with the things of this age. Amen, Lord, we want to know our God, rise up, and take action! Our desire is to do something noble and worthy for You, something that can be considered as an achievement. What a noble thing it is to give ourselves to be strong and take action for Your move in this age! Amen, Lord, we are one with You in what You want to do today!

Listen to the audio version of this article via youtube here (the title there is Amen, may we Cooperate with God for His Move on Earth today).

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, and portions from, The World Situation and the Direction of the Lord’s Move, chs. 1-2 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Material offerings and the Lord’s Move Today, week 4, entitled, Material Offerings for the Lord’s Move.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Now the Lord’s recovery is everywhere proceeding, / All the churches join in one to give the Lord command: / “Speed the day when all the earth will echo with pray-reading / And with hallelujahs for Christ our land.” (Hymns #1236)
  – Take my life, and let it be / Consecrated, Lord, to Thee; / Take my moments and my days, / Let them flow in ceaseless praise, / Let them flow in ceaseless praise. (Hymns #445)
  – While blending, holy fire bright / All filth, all mixture burns away. / This holy flame becomes their light, / That all their move bright gleams display. / Accompanied by God’s great wheel, / They move beneath a crystal sky; / The throne of God becomes so real, / Christ’s glorious image shines thereby. / Coordinated do they move; / Commissioned by His hand. / Their steps the same, as one they move / And thus His reign expand. (Song on, The creatures four from Christ have life)