Enjoy the Bountiful Supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ to Live Christ and Magnify Him

By the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, we, believers in Christ, can live Christ and magnify Him; the Spirit of Jesus Christ with His bountiful supply affords us everything we need and enables us to live Christ and magnify Him.

Praise the Lord, our God operates in us both the willing and the working for His good pleasure!

He operates in us not merely to make us better people or to make us more spiritual, neither does He operate in us to make us more successful.

He operates in us the willingness, to make us willing to cooperate with the Lord, and He also operates in us the working.

The Triune God operates in us not for our betterment, for us to have more success in our business or in the church life, but for His good pleasure. Amen!

There are many operations, according to the Bible; the word of God operates, the death of Christ operates, the members in the Body of Christ operate, and the Triune God operates.

The most strategic, the most crucial operation is the operation of God Himself.

God the Father is the source, God the Son is the expression, and God the Spirit is the application; the Triune God has been processed and consummated to come into us and operate in us.

If God is not Triune and if He was not processed, He cannot operate in us; He can be related to us and even work in us by being processed and by coming into us as the Spirit.

And the way He operates is in a quiet and normal way; He operates daily, even moment by moment, both the willing and the working.

He operates in us by means of the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

The bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ is available to us today to enjoy, partake of, and experience, so that we may live Christ for His magnification.

We need to have the same experience as Paul, that of enjoying the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ and living Christ for His magnification.

God operates in us both the willing and the working by means of the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ so that we may live Christ, express Christ, and magnify Christ.

As we enjoy and experience the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, we are inwardly supplied and enabled to live Christ in our daily life so that we may express Christ and magnify Him, no matter the circumstances.

What we need is not only the Holy Spirit leading us or interdicting us to go somewhere, and not only the Spirit of Jesus with His the suffering capacity or the Spirit of Christ with His resurrection life but the Spirit of Jesus Christ with His bountiful supply.

God went through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, and now He is the all-inclusive, life-giving, compound Spirit to be the bountiful supply for our enjoyment and experience for us to live Christ and magnify Him.

The Spirit of Jesus Christ has a Bountiful Supply with many Ingredients for our Enjoyment

The expression “the bountiful supply” before “of the Spirit of Jesus Christ” is a specific and rich expression used by the apostle to indicate the bountiful rich supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:19).

The word supply here is an interpretive translation of the original Greek word which means choragus, referring to the leader of a chorus, one who provides everything that the chorus needs.

When a chorus would go around to sing in different locations, the leader would be a choragus, one who would take care of the needs of every one in the chorus.

He would simply make sure that all the chorus members don’t have anything to worry about – he would provide everything for them.

This is the word that Paul used here when he said, the bountiful supply.

This same word is used in Eph. 4:16 as joints of the rich supply; this is the same rich supply, bountiful supply.

As we experience the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, we become joints of the rich supply.

We need to see that the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ includes many ingredients.

It includes divinity, the divine person with the divine nature; an uplifted humanity, a humanity with a proper life, living, nature, and person; the Lord’s wonderful, all-inclusive death on the cross; and Christ’s resurrection and ascension (see John 1:1, 14, 29; Gal. 2:20; Luke 24:5-6, 50-51).

Paul experienced the Spirit of the suffering Jesus in his sufferings, and he also experienced the Spirit of the rising Christ for deliverance from his situation.

He experienced the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ meeting all his needs to live Christ for His magnification.

Today we can enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and in this bountiful supply is everything we need.

The divine life and nature are included in this supply, and the divine life, nature, being, and person – God Himself – is included in this supply.

The bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ includes an uplifted humanity, a humanity with a proper life, living, nature, and person.

The proper humanity of Jesus is in this bountiful supply. He lived a perfect human life for thirty-three and half years on earth, and His human living is in this supply.

His death is also included in this supply; the all-inclusive and all-terminating death of Christ that dealt with everything negative in the universe is in this bountiful supply.

As we enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the negative things in our being are put to death.

Furthermore, Christ’s resurrection and ascension are included; when we are low and down, the resurrection of Christ with its power operates in us to revive us and bring us into resurrection.

All the divine attributes and the uplifted human virtues are in the bountiful supply of the Spirit.

In this supply, we have love and light, holiness and righteousness, and all the uplifted virtues of man.

For example, in the family life, we need love and submission; these virtues are in the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

The Bible commands a wife to submit to her husband and her husband to love his wife (Eph. 5:24-25); however, in ourselves, we don’t have genuine submission or love.

Our love runs out and our submission actually becomes rebellion; instead of love we have an unbalanced, twisted love, and instead of submission, we have rebellion.

But when we enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, we partake of the ingredients in it even without knowing it.

Submission becomes something spontaneously lived out of us as we enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit, and love is automatically expressed through us as we partake of this bountiful supply.

True love and true submission are not something deliberately lived out but something spontaneous that comes out of our enjoyment of the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

May we be those who enjoy this bountiful supply day by day so that we may live Christ and magnify Him!

Lord Jesus, we want to enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ with all the wonderful ingredients and components in this supply. Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to enjoy and partake of divinity, the uplifted humanity of Jesus, the all-inclusive death of Christ, the resurrection and ascension of Christ, and the divine attributes and uplifted human virtues. Oh Lord, save us from trying to be better or improve ourselves; keep us contacting You and living in the mingled spirit so that we may spontaneously enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ! Amen, Lord, may the divine attributes be expressed through our human virtues as we enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ!

Enjoy the Bountiful Supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ to Live Christ and Magnify Him

Like Paul, we need to enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ so that we may live Christ and magnify Him even in the situation that we are in right now (Phil. 1:19-21).

This was Paul’s yearning to experience, that his situation would turn out to his salvation, that he would live Christ and magnify Him.

As believers in Christ, we are charged to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12) for it is God who operates in us both the willing and the working for His good pleasure (v. 13).

The salvation we need to work out is that we may live Christ and magnify Christ.

To live Christ is to live by another person; it is more than to live for Christ or to live out Christ.

Paul said, To me to live is Christ; Paul lived by another person.

The goal of god’s operating in us, the goal of His inner operation with the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ is that we may attain the highest goal of God’s salvation, which is for us to live and magnify Christ.

To magnify Christ is to make Christ big, to enlarge Christ, and to make Him known to others.

We may think that Christ is big enough, for He fills the whole universe; however, in the eyes of those around us He may be quite small. Yes, Christ is eternally great and spacious, but He is not great in the eyes of many people.

When Paul was in prison, Christ was very small in the eyes of the prison guards and of the Roman soldiers.

But Paul, this little servant of Christ in the prison, by enjoying God’s operation in him through the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, made Christ so big, enlarging and magnifying Christ.

How can Christ be magnified in the eyes and appreciation of those around us? It is when we enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ so that we may live Christ and magnify Christ.

We should not only know that the Spirit of Jesus Christ is a bountiful supply, nor should we merely understand that God operates in us by means of this bountiful supply.

Rather, we need to see our need to live in and with the Divine Trinity and be enriched to experience, enjoy, and grow in Christ.

If we don’t see how the Divine Trinity as the bountiful supply of the Spirit is living with us and operating in us, how can we enjoy Him, grow in Him, and experience Him?

We need to magnify Christ in our circumstances, with the unbelievers, with the believers, and even with God.

God has assigned us so many dire situations and circumstances, which are complicated and complicating; yet He wants us to magnify Him in the circumstances.

We shouldn’t ask God to change our circumstances or rescue us from our situations; we should simply enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ so that we may live Christ and magnify Him.

We need to magnify Him to the unbelievers by preaching the high gospel. We need to magnify Christ with the believers by shepherding them to minister Christ to them.

Also, we need to manifest Christ with God by worshipping Him in spirit and in truthfulness.

Living in and with the Divine Trinity is not just something interesting or a play with words to “tickle our mind” and make us seem more “spiritual”.

Rather, the Lord wants us to advance in our appreciation and enjoyment and experience of Him so that we may grow in His life to reach maturity so that we may be built up as His Body and eventually consummate the New Jerusalem.

For this, we need to enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ so that we may live Christ and magnify Him in any kind of circumstances.

In the Spirit of Jesus Christ there’s the all-inclusive bountiful supply that enables us to meet any kind of environment and thus experience Christ, enjoy Christ, live Christ, and magnify Christ.

Hallelujah, it is God who operates in us in a normal and quiet way; He is not only in us, but He is also operating in us.

He operates not only in the heavens and around us in the world situation but also in our being.

He operates quietly, steadily, and richly in us to bountifully supply us with the Spirit of Jesus Christ for us to live Christ and magnify Him.

May we treasure the bountiful supply of the Spirit and render the operating God our cooperation by exercising our spirit to call on His name, pray-read His word, and fellowship with the saints in whom the Spirit is moving and flowing.

As He operates, we cooperate; this will lead to our spontaneous living of Christ, thus participating in God’s operation.

Lord Jesus, we want to enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ so that we may live Christ and magnify Him. We do not ask You to change our circumstances or to deliver us from our situations; we just want to live Christ to magnify Him in our situations! Amen, Lord, we want to live in and with the Divine Trinity so that we can be enriched to experience, enjoy, and grow in Christ. We open to the Triune God’s operation in us, the normal and quiet operating of God for His good pleasure. Amen, Lord, We want to cooperate with Your operation today. Keep us calling on Your name, pray-reading Your word, and meeting to fellowship with the saints in whom the Spirit is flowing so that we may enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ to live Christ and magnify Him!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” ch. 18, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living In and With the Divine Trinity (2021 Thanksgiving Day Conference), week 5, entitled, Living with the Divine Trinity (2) God Operating in us.
• Further reading on this topic:
  – He’s pledged to save us to the full, / His life is operating; / He’s doing everything for us / ’Tis all for our perfecting; / Our life’s a failure at its best, / Only His life can stand the test: / His life brings full salvation! (Hymns #1130)
  – 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. (Hymns #499)
  – Life is God the Father in Christ Jesus / As the Spirit flowing into us. / How enjoyable, this Person wonderful! / He’s our life so rich and bountiful. (Hymns #1193)