Cooperate with Christ’s Sevenfold Intensified Heavenly Ministry to be His Overcomers

Today we are in the age of intensification, and we are continually being saved from degradation by loving the Lord with the first love and by the speaking of the sevenfold intensified Spirit; Christ’s sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry will consummate this age and bring in the New Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!

The New Testament clearly reveals that Christ went through a process, from incarnation through crucifixion and resurrection, and in the book of Revelation, we see that there are the seven Spirits of God.

First, God became a man in the person of Jesus Christ; God was incarnated to be a man, and the infinite God became a finite man to join, mingle, and incorporate the Triune God with the tripartite man.

This is Christ in the stage of His incarnation, in which He accomplished many wonderful things, including His all-inclusive redemption.

After going through death and resurrection, Christ became a life-giving Spirit, was begotten as God’s firstborn Son, and regenerated us, the many believers in Christ, for His Body.

This is what He has accomplished in the stage of His inclusion.

However, even though the church was produced through Christ’s resurrection and we all were regenerated when He was resurrected, soon after the church became degraded.

Degradation came in the church, first in a subtle way – as exposed by the apostles in the Epistles – and then in a more obvious way, as exposed by the Lord in His speaking to the seven churches in Rev. 2-3.

So the Lord went on to become the seven Spirits, the sevenfold intensified Spirit, for Him to intensify His organic salvation, to produce the overcomers, and to consummate the New Jerusalem.

Christ today is not only in the heavens, seated at the right hand of God, on the throne above all things, waiting for the church to subdue God’s enemy.

Even more, Christ is in the stage of intensification, in which He works in an intensified way to carry out God’s eternal economy, produce the overcomers, and consummate the New Jerusalem.

The world is intensified in an evil, corrupt, and immoral way, and the degradation of the church is very deep, to the core; therefore, the Lord has been intensified sevenfold as the Spirit to not only build up the church but gain His overcomers who build up the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem.

We want to be the Lord’s overcomers today, so we give ourselves to the Lord to do a work not only in the stage of the Lord’s incarnation to save people or in the stage of inclusion to produce the churches and shepherd others but even more in the stage of intensification for the overcomers to be produced.

Being the Overcomers by Recovering and Developing our First love Toward the Lord and by the Speaking of the Sevenfold Intensified Spirit

In order for us to be the overcomers produced by Christ in His sevenfold intensification, we need to be saved from any degradation that is saturating the church today.

The cause of all degradation is what we see in Rev. 2:4-5, the leaving of the first love toward the Lord.

If we would be overcomers, we must recover, maintain, and develop our first love toward the Lord.

When we do not love the Lord with the first love, when we just love the Lord in a general way but not with the first love, degradation comes in.

The leaving of the first love toward the Lord is the source and main reason for the failure of the church throughout the ages.

What does it mean for us to love the Lord with the first love?

The first love refers not merely to the love we first had toward the Lord when we believed into Him but even more to the best love for Him, a fervent love for Him.

To love the Lord Jesus is to give Him the first place in all things (Col. 1:18).

Christ must have preeminence in all things. He must have the first place.

Day by day we need to give the Lord the first place, the preeminence, in all things and in all matters, regarding Him as everything in our life.

We need to come to the Lord and ask Him to help us recover our first love toward the Lord, maintain it, and develop it.

We must not love anyone or anything above the Lord, including our soul-life (Matt. 10:37-39; Rev. 12:11).

The first life practice that brings us intrinsically into the stage of intensification is that we need to love the Lord with the first love, giving Him the first place in all things in our life, our family life, our church life, our daily life, and our service toward the Lord.

We are saved from degradation by the speaking of the sevenfold intensified pneumatic Christ and by the overcoming saints living in their spirit (Rev. 2:1, 7; 1:10; 4:2; 17:3; 21:10).

We need the Lord’s speaking every day. Every day we need to say, Lord, speak to me. Speak to me in the meeting, speak to me in the morning, and speak to me throughout the day!

We need to open our being to the Lord and ask Him to give us an ear to hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches.

Today Christ in the stage of intensification is walking among the churches as the High Priest, the Son of Man, speaking to the churches as the Spirit that is intensified sevenfold.

May we hear the Lord’s speaking today. May we be saved from degradation by the speaking of the unlimited, life-releasing, sevenfold intensified Spirit today.

Christ is the Lamb with seven eyes, who are the seven Spirits of God (Rev. 5:6), and He speaks to the churches. Hallelujah!

The seven Spirits are the eyes of Christ; this indicates that They are one with Christ.

In Rev. 2-3 we have Christ speaking to the churches and then at the end, it says, He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches.

Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit speaks to the churches to produce the overcomers.

May we have an ear to hear what the Lord as the sevenfold intensified life-giving Spirit is speaking to the churches today.

May we overcome the degradation of the church by having the Lord’s present, instant, fresh speaking, and by the participation of the overcoming saints who are living in their spirit (Rev. 1:10; 4:2; 17:3; 21:10).

We overcome the degradation of the church and are produced to be the Lord’s overcomers first by loving the Lord with the first love, then by having the Lord speaking in us as the Spirit, and finally by living in our spirit all the time.

We need to live in our mingled spirit all the time. We need to ask the Lord to keep us in our spirit all the time.

Lord Jesus, we want to be Your overcomers today. Produce us as Your overcomers who end this age and bring You back. We want to recover, maintain, and develop our first love toward the Lord. Amen, Lord, save us from leaving our first love toward the Lord. We want to love You with the first love and give You the first place in all things! We give You the first place, the preeminence, in our family life, our church life, and in all the aspects of our daily living! Amen, Lord, grant us to have an ear to hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches! Save us from degradation by the speaking of the sevenfold intensified Spirit! Speak to us today. Cause us to be unveiled and open to receive Your speaking again and again. Save us from any degradation by Your speaking as the sevenfold intensified life-giving Spirit. Amen, Lord, we love You, we want to have Your speaking, and we want to live in the mingled spirit all the time!

Doing a Work in the Stage of Intensification to Cooperate with Christ’s Sevenfold Intensified Ministry

The book of Revelation shows us the many aspects of Christ’s work in the stage of intensification.

Today Christ as the Spirit has been intensified sevenfold to do many things in an intensified way in order to carry out God’s economy and consummate the New Jerusalem.

Christ’s sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry is for the complete preparation of the bride for Christ, the Bridegroom (Rev. 17:7-9).

He is working in an intensified way to completely prepare the church to be the bride of Christ for Christ as the Bridegroom, so that he may have His triumphant wedding in the millennium!

That will be His satisfaction according to His good pleasure. Christ’s sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry is for the formation of the bridal army (vv. 11-21; 17:14).

On one hand, we love the Lord with the first love to be His bride; on the other hand, we are prepared and formed to be the bridal army for Christ to defeat and destroy His enemies.

The Lord’s top enemies at the end of this age will be the Antichrist and his false prophet, who will attack Christ to the uttermost.

They will rise up against Christ to such an extent that they will raise up many armies, even the whole earth who is in rebellion against God, to fight directly against Christ.

But praise the Lord, Christ and His bride, His bridal army, will destroy them and throw them into the lake of fire!

We want to be prepared and formed into the bridal army fighting one with Christ against His enemies.

Christ’s sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry is for the binding of Satan and the casting of him into the abyss for one thousand years (Rev. 20:1-3).

After Satan and his armies are defeated, he will be bound and cast into the abyss for one thousand years.

Christ’s sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry is for the bringing in of the kingdom of Christ and of God, which will be the millennium (vv. 4-6).

Hallelujah, we are here for this, to be produced as the Lord’s overcomers in His intensification so that we may rule and reign with Him, even dine with Him, for one thousand years in the millennium age!

Christ’s sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry is for the initial consummation of the New Jerusalem in the millennium (Rev. 2:7) and its full consummation in the new heaven and new earth (21:2).

The overcomers will partake of the foretaste of the New Jerusalem in the age of the kingdom of one thousand years, and all the believers in Christ will participate in the full taste of the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth.

The Bible reveals that not all believers will be the overcomers who will dine with Christ at the wedding feast; many will go through the discipline of one thousand years to be matured, transformed, and conformed to the image of Christ.

Eventually, all believers in Christ will be fully matured, transformed, and conformed in order to participate in the New Jerusalem for eternity! Hallelujah!

The New Jerusalem shows us the final outcome of Christ’s sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry – here we see the Spirit and the bride, a universal couple (Rev. 22:17).

The final outcome is that God and man will be joined and one in a divine-human romance for eternity; the Spirit is the ultimate consummation of the processed and consummated Triune God to be the Bridegroom, and the aggregate of the overcoming saints becomes the bride.

This is a universal romance between the redeeming God and His redeemed man at the conclusion of the entire Scriptures. How wonderful is this!

This is our destiny and our destination, our wonderful outcome.

May we consider before the Lord the matter of intensification and pray desperately that we may do a work in the stage of intensification to cooperate with Christ’s sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry today.

May we not only understand the doctrine of Christ in His full ministry of three stages but cooperate with the Lord to be intensified even as He was intensified so that we may be produced as the overcomers who overcome any degradation in the church and build up the church to consummate the New Jerusalem.

Lord Jesus, we want to cooperate with Christ’s sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry today so that we may be produced as the overcomers who build up the church as the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem! Oh Lord, we want to advance with You and cooperate with You in the stage of intensification. You have been intensified to be the seven Spirits of God, and we pray that we also are intensified to overcome the degradation of the church! Amen, Lord, intensify Your organic salvation in us. May we be intensified sevenfold to overcome the degradation of the church so that the Body may be built up to consummate the New Jerusalem! Amen, Lord, have a way to prepare the bride for Christ the Bridegroom! Gain the bridal army that will defeat Your enemy and bind Satan! Amen, Lord, make us one with You to consummate the New Jerusalem!

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 Ed Marks in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” pp. 148-149, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord’s Recovery Before His Appearing (2023 July Semiannual Training), week 9, entitled, The Full Ministry of Christ in Three Stages.
• Similar articles on this topic:
  – The ministry of Christ in the stage of intensification, article by Ed Marks in, Affirmation and Critique.
  – What are the Seven Spirits of God in Revelation? Article via, Holding to Truth in Love.
  – To open the additional section of the sevenfold intensified organic salvation of God, a portion of, The Divine and Mystical Realm, Chapter 5, by Witness Lee.
  – Intensification — the Stage of Christ as the Sevenfold Intensified Spirit To Deal with the Degradation of the Church, a newsletter via, The Church in Regina.
  – The Lord’s Recovery of the Corporate Christ ― the Body-Christ, outline via, Mid-Atlantic Churches.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – “Seven Spirits” of our God— / Lo, the age has now been turned / To the Spirit with the Son. / For the churches He’s concerned. / Come, O seven Spirits, come, / Thy recovery work be done! / Burn and search us thoroughly, / All the churches are for Thee. / Burn us, search us, / All the churches are for Thee! (Hymns #1122 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – To Ephesus, the word is clear: / “To your first love you’re not so near; / You’ve left to work so far away; / Repent, return to Him today.” / Thus, we must all turn back to Him, / Leave other loves, for these are sin. / Oh, let us hearken to His call— / If we miss this, we’ve missed it all! (Hymns #1274 stanzas 3-4)
  – “Come and drink the living water,” / Say the Spirit and the Bride— / Church and Spirit speak together, / Utterly identified. / Just according to the Spirit / Must be our reality; / Just the Spirit in the churches / Is the Lord’s recovery. (Hymns #1123 stanza 4)