Come Forward to God in Spirit and be one with Him to have Dispensational Value to God

What God desires today is to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom; for Him to accomplish this, He must have His dispensational instrument, and we all should have dispensational value to God, doing what the special work required to end this age in oneness with the Lord. Amen!

This week we come to another wonderful crystal in our crystallization study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, and our focus is Nehemiah.

We will focus on Nehemiah – a Pattern who has Dispensational Value to God.

In reading the books of Ezra and Nehemiah we realize that Nehemiah in particular had dispensational value to God, for he was used by God to change the age.

He was the kind of person that God needed in that age in order for Him to turn the age, from the age of captivity to the age of the rebuilding of the temple and the city of God.

Nehemiah is a very positive pattern to us; though he lived in the Old Testament, he contacted the Lord in all things, his heart was fully one with the Lord’s heart, and the Lord had a way to use him to end the age and bring in the new age.

Today we live at the end of the age of the church, and the Lord wants to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom.

But where are those who have dispensational value to God? Where is the dispensational instrument that God can use today?

He is not after a lifeless, motionless, and robotic “tool” which He can use as He pleases; He wants to gain a group of people who agree with Him and stand one with Him on earth to carry out His will.

The church is supposed to be this group of people. The church is to be the dispensational instrument, for God wants to use the church as the Body of Christ to end this age.

But the church as a whole has failed God, so God is calling the overcomers, those who stand for God and do the work of the church on behalf of the church.

He wants to gain the overcomers, the components of the bride. The overcomers today are the bride for whom the Lord will return.

He wants to return, but He needs us, the overcomers, to be prepared and ready.

In His economy, God would not do things by Himself; He has limited His doing to the cooperation and will of His people.

If our will is joined to His will, if we are one with Him in prayer and action, He can carry out what is in His heart.

But if we don’t, we hinder Him; we delay Him.

May we be those who take Nehemiah as our pattern, seeing what he was and what he has done in order to be one who has dispensational value to God, and may we be one with the Lord to be His overcomers today, those who have dispensational value before God.

Being the Dispensational Instrument who has Dispensational Value to God to End this Age and bring in the age of the Kingdom

God’s desire today is to end this age, the age of the church, and bring in the age of the kingdom.

However, for Him to accomplish this, He must have His dispensational instrument; He needs the overcomers.

May there be a new revival among us, not a revival like those who have been during history, but the ultimate revival which will end this age.

We need to have a revival that will end this age and turn it to the age of the kingdom.

For the new revival, we need to be those who arrive at the high peak of the divine revelation, live the life of a God-man, and shepherd others according to God by entering into Christ’s wonderful shepherding ministry.

We need to live one spirit with the Lord, living daily in the organic union with Him for Him to carry out what is on His heart.

We need to arrive at the high peak of the divine revelation, corporately enter into living the life of a God-man, and cooperate with Christ’s shepherding in His heavenly ministry.

When we do this, the Lord will turn this age.

We need to realize that, by His mercy, the Lord brought us into the church life, and we are learning to be the church in Philadelphia, having brotherly love, not denying the Lord’s name but keeping His word, and doing the best we have with the little power we have.

Once we say, however, that we are Philadelphia, we become degraded; we need to remain in the Lord’s word and seek to be the dispensational instrument He needs today.

May we be filled with God as love so that we love Him and one another with Him as our love (1 Cor. 13).

We all need to look to the Lord and pray that we will have dispensational value to God.

He has changed His attitude toward this age; He wants to see the age of the church come to a close and bring in the age of the kingdom.

This means that He wants to gain those who have dispensational value to Him, His dispensational instrument with whom and by whom He can end this age.

He promised this in Gen. 3:15, saying that the seed of the woman will bruise the serpent on the head.

This seed refers primarily to the Lord Jesus, but the overcomers are also part of this seed.

The seed of the woman includes the church – in particular, the overcomers.

Rev. 12:10-11 reveals the man-child, the stronger part of the woman, the seed of the woman.

Once the man-child is brought forth, he is caught up to God and to His throne, there is war in heaven, and the enemy is cast down; the age is changed to the age of the kingdom.

This is the most important dispensational move of God, the one revealed in Rev. 12; God wants to end the age of the church and bring in the age of the kingdom.

His purpose is not general, ordinary, or common.

For Him to carry out His purpose, He needs those who have dispensational value to God to be the dispensational instrument.

We want to be part of the man-child to end this age and bring in the next age. We want to be those who have dispensational value to God.

We want to be the overcomers not merely to escape the tribulation; we want to cooperate with the Lord and not limit Him so that He would carry out His move.

He is waiting for us. The God who created the heavens and the earth is waiting for the man He created to give Him the cooperation He needs.

His binding and losing in heaven need to be released on the earth. Everything depends on the church, in particular, on the overcomers.

We all need to look to the Lord and pray that we will have dispensational value to God.

We need to ask ourselves what are we doing to close this age and to bring in the next age, the kingdom age.

We live in a time that is very special in God’s eyes, and there’s the need for special believers to do a special work.

God would not deal with Satan, a created being, by Himself; He wants man, a created being, to deal with Satan.

Today we live in the most privileged time, for today we can do the most for God.

May we come to the Lord as we are, give ourselves to Him, and be joined to Him.

May we pray before the Lord and be fully open to Him so that we may be those who have dispensational value in His hand today, so that we may be His dispensational instrument to end this age and bring in the next age.

Lord Jesus, we look to You. We open to You. We want to have dispensational value in Your eyes. Grant us to be part of the dispensational instrument that closes this age and brings in the age of the kingdom. Oh Lord, we aspire to be Your overcomers today. We want to be part of the man-child that brings an end to the church age and introduces the kingdom age. We do not want to limit You anymore. We fully open our being to You and we join ourselves to You. Make us Your overcomers who release on earth what has been released in the heavens, and who binds on earth what has been bound in the heavens. Amen, Lord, gain the dispensational instrument You desire to remove man’s power and the devil’s power, thus ending this age and bringing in the age of the kingdom! Gain a group of people who have dispensational value to God!

Come Forward to the Holy of Holies, to the Throne of Grace, and to God, and Be the Dispensational Instrument He Needs Today!

Those who can only say “Go” but not “Come” will have no effect, that is, they will have no dispensational value to God.

If we can only tell others to go to the Lord but cannot testify and exhort them to come forward to God, for we’re already in God, we cannot be part of the dispensational instrument in God’s hand.

We see this in Heb. 10:22. The writer of the book of Hebrews didn’t tell the believers to go forward but to come forward; this means that he was already in that place, and he wanted his readers to also come to the place where he was.

According to Hebrews, we need to come forward to three things: to the Holy of Holies, to the throne of grace, and to God Himself (Heb. 4:16; 7:25; 11:6; 10:22).

We should not shrink back but rather, we should come forward! We need to come forward with boldness to the throne of grace (4:16).

Our boldness is not our merit, our deeds, or our own righteousness; our boldness is the blood of Jesus Christ.

We come forward with boldness to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for the timely help.

We need to come forward to the Holy of Holies with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water (Heb. 10:22).

We need to come forward to God through Jesus Christ, for He lives always to intercede for us (Heb. 7:25).

He always lives to intercede for each one of us personally and for all of us corporately.

Right now, no matter how low you think you are and how degraded your condition may be, the Lord Jesus lives to intercede for you. He intercedes for us.

May we come forward to the Holy of Holies, to the throne of grace, and to God Himself through Christ, so that we may obtain the testimony of being well-pleasing to God (11:6).

Without faith, it is impossible to be well-pleasing to God, for he who comes forward to God must believe that He is.

We must believe that God is and we are not.

To have dispensational value to God, we need to believe that God is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Enoch obtained the testimony that he was well-pleasing to God.

In Gen. 5:22-24 we see that Enoch walked with God and he was not, because God took him. Wow.

We need to come forward to God, to the throne of grace, and to the Holy of Holies until we walk with God constantly and instantly, and we will one day no longer be, for God simply takes us.

We believe that God is and that we are not. We believe that He lives in us and we live one with Him.

We want to walk with God until we are not, and He is; we want to be part of the dispensational instrument that enables God to do what He wants to do.

When we turn to our spirit, we are right there, at the throne of God; when we turn to our mingled spirit, we touch the throne of God in the heavens.

The Lord wants us to come to the throne of grace again and again by coming to our mingled spirit.

God is on the throne of grace, and the throne of grace is in the Holy of Holies; we come to God, to the throne of grace, and to the Holy of Holies by coming to our mingled spirit and being in the mingled spirit.

When we are in our spirit, there is a throne set up there, and God is on the throne; we are dethroned and God is enthroned.

When the Lord gains a group of people who are constantly living in the spirit, He has a way to gain those who have dispensational value to God, and He can end this age.

May we be such ones. May we be those who have dispensational value to God today.

Lord Jesus, we want to come forward to the Holy of Holies, to the throne of grace, and to God through Christ. Amen, Lord, we come to our mingled spirit, where God is! Hallelujah, our spirit is the dwelling place of God, and in our spirit we have God, the throne of grace, and the Holy of Holies! Amen, Lord, we turn to You right now. We set our mind on our spirit. We enthrone You in our being; we dethrone ourselves and we enthrone You in all things. We exercise our spirit to contact You and remain in the mingled spirit. Grant us to be those who have dispensational value to God in this age. Grant us to be part of the dispensational instrument that cooperates with You to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom. Amen, Lord, may light show us the way and may strength and power enable us to walk the road!

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 Ed Marks in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Watchman Nee, vol. 34, vol. 2, “The Glorious Church,” pp. 153-157, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther (2022 winter training), week 7, entitled, Nehemiah – a Pattern of One who has Dispensational Value to God.
• Further reading on this topic:
  – Dispensational moves in the Word of God, a portion from, The Glorious Church, Chapter 6, by Watchman Nee.
  – Our Preparation for the Lord’s Coming (4) Having Dispensational Value to God, a video via Uni Students.
  – Opening Word – Having Dispensational Value to God in the Last Days to Turn the Age, via, The Church in New York City.
  – Men with turn the age (1) – Having dispensational value to God in the last days to turn the age, a podcast via Joseph’s Storehouses.
  – The vision and importance of the next generation in the Lord’s recovery – a lesson via, the Church in Miami.
  – Answering God’s Call to Be His Dispensational Instrument, His Overcomers, to Turn the Age, a portion via, The Church in Lake Forest.
  – Men Who Turn the Age, article via, Ageturners website.
  – JR (P1) Msg 1: Having Dispensational Value to God in the Last Days to Turn the Age, video via, EYPCO.
  – The Christian life, teh church life, the consummation of the age, and the coming of the Lord, week 8 – a portion via, The Church in Regina.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Lo, how Satan came to damage / Human life on the earth; / But the Lord in all this ruin / Raised a man full of worth! / From the seed of the woman / God incarnate became / The man Jesus—the last Adam— / To destroy Satan’s aim! / It’s by calling, drinking, eating / The man Jesus today, / His humanity enjoying / Bruises Satan each day. / To the Lord we must be turning, / All our soul life deny, / To destroy all Satan’s working / And the new man supply. (Hymns #1172 stanzas 2-3)
  – Will you be an overcomer? / Christ is calling now! / Will you then be such a follower, / Though you know not how? … Will you be an overcomer? / Christ is calling still! / Will you now be loyal to Him, / His demand fulfill. (Hymns #894 stanzas 1 and 8)
  – Lord, we’ve heard the call, “Come forward,” / Unto the most Holy Place, / To behold shekinah glory / Shining from Your blessed face. / Coming forward to the Holiest, / Through the incense altar’s prayer; / No more veil of separation, / We may boldly enter there. (Hymns #1217 stanza 1 and chorus)