Enjoy Christ as our Divine Provision and as Everything to us in and for the Body

Today we need to enjoy Christ as our divine provision and as our everything in and for the Body of Christ.

Christ as our allotted portion supplies us with everything we need, and in Him we lack nothing; He’s the all-sufficient God and the great I am, and we can enjoy and experience Him every day to meet our needs so that we may meet His need for the building up of the church. Hallelujah!

We as believers in Christ can experience and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the good land – a land in which we do not lack anything.

He has been alloted to us in the light for our experience and enjoyment in our daily life.

What we have been allotted is not a physical piece of land but the all-inclusive Christ as the life-giving Spirit.

Each one of us has been given the Spirit and we were baptized in the Spirit; the Spirit is in us and we are in Him so that we may enjoy and partake of His riches day by day for our enjoyment.

As we enjoy the riches of Christ, we believers in Christ are built up to be the Body of Christ as the house of God and the kingdom of God.

We enjoy this all-inclusive Christ in the light; light is the presence of God.

When we come to God, we are enlightened, and when we come to God’s word, we receive God’s light.

When we’re in the meetings of the church, the light shines on us and we see all things. Hallelujah!

As the all-inclusive land, Christ is the rich soil in which we have been rooted so that we may grow with the elements that we absorb from Him as the soil.

We need to daily take time to absorb Christ, the One in whom we were planted.

We need to take time to enjoy Him so that we may absorb His riches into our being.

Though our outward situation and condition may not be that great, we need to forget our situation and condition with our failures and weaknesses, and simply take time to absorb the Lord so that we may grow with the growth of God.

The Christ that has been allotted to us is rich and all-inclusive, and in Him we lack nothing.

In Him dwells all the fullness of God, and when we enjoy Him as the fullness, we will be made full in Him.

As we absorb the riches of Christ, we enjoy and experience Christ in His crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.

All the elements and processes that He has and has passed through are being applied to our being.

Even more, Christ as the soil is the history of God and the mystery of God with all the riches of His person and processes.

The Christ we enjoy and absorb is God and man, and as man, He’s the Apostle, the Prophet, the Counselor, the Teacher, the Leader, the Master, the Slave, the Shepherd, the Witness, the Priest, the Mediator, the surety, the King, and the Bridegroom.

Christ is the reality of all our necessities, for He is our light, air, water, food, clothing, lodging, enjoyment, and rest. He’s everything we need!

Christ is our Divine Provision to us: He’s God’s Wisdom to us From God as our Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption

Christ is our divine provision for us to enjoy and partake of in the mingled spirit.

1 Cor. 1:30 tells us that it is of God that we are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Hallelujah!

As the divine provision, Christ is God’s power to us (1 Cor. 1:24) for the carrying out and accomplishing of what He has planned and purposed.

Christ is the wisdom of God to us; He is wisdom to us from God, wisdom being transmitted to us all the time.

There’s an unceasing flow from God to us, and this is the divine provision for us to enjoy, partake of, and live by.

As such a divine provision, Christ is our power, our wisdom, our righteousness, our sanctification and our redemption.

Christ is righteousness to us from God; by Him as our righteousness, we have been justified by God so that we may be regenerated with God’s life in our spirit to receive the divine life.

He is not only our objective righteousness but even more, our subjective righteousness, the One who dwells in us to live in us.

As our subjective righteousness, Christ dwells in us to live for us a life that can be justified by God and that is always acceptable to God.

For us to live such a life, we need Christ as our divine provision.

Christ is our sanctification; He is the very element that makes us holy and transforms us.

Apart from Christ, we cannot have the element that changes us within; He in us is our sanctification, making us holy, the same as God (2 Cor. 3:18).

Hallelujah, Christ is wisdom to us from God – our righteousness and our sanctification and our redemption!

Christ is redemption to us from God; He will redeem our body to make it the same as the body of His glory.

Christ will redeem the body of our humiliation to transfigure it and conform it to the body of His glory (Rom. 8:23; Phil. 3:21). Wow, amen!

Christ is our righteousness for the past, our sanctification for our present, and redemption for the future.

Christ is the power of God to us; this power is “dynamite” in Greek.

For us to be saved, we need this dynamic power of God; for us to be sanctified and redeemed, we need this dynamic power of God. This power can do it.

In ourselves, we cannot do it, but Christ can do it.

In God’s dictionary, there’s no such expression as “I can’t”, for to Him all things are possible.

He is our divine provision for us to be justified, sanctified, and glorified.

He is our righteousness for whatever happened to us earlier today.

He is our sanctification for us at the present, for us to be saturated with the element of God.

Today God is dispensing Himself into us to sanctify us and make us the same as He is.

As we open to Him day by day, Christ is dispensing Himself with all that He is into us for us to be saturated with His element and be made the same as He is in life, nature, expression, and function.

And for our future, Christ is our redemption; He will transfigure our body to redeem us and make it the same as the body of His glory. What a Christ we have!

He’s the divine provision for us to enjoy, receive, and be constituted with in order to be justified by God, sanctified with God’s element, and transfigured in our body for the full redemption of our body! Praise the Lord!

Today we can enjoy Christ as such a divine provision because we have been rooted in Him as the rich soil, the all-inclusive good land. Hallelujah!

Lord Jesus, thank You for being the divine provision from God to us for our enjoyment and experience today! Hallelujah, it is of God that we are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God! Amen, Lord, You are God’s wisdom being continually dispensed into us as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption! You are our righteousness for the past for us to be justified by God for our regeneration! Amen, Lord, You are our sanctification for us to be saturated with God’s holy element and be transformed inwardly into Your image. You are our redemption, for You will transfigure the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of Your glory! Amen, Lord, we open to You today. We open to Your divine dispensing of Yourself into our being. We come to You and take You as our divine provision for us to be saturated with You and eventually to be transfigured and conformed to Your glorious image!

Christ is the Head of the Church, the Body of the Head, the Foundation of the Church, the Cornerstone of God’s House, and All the Members of the New Man

Christ is not only the divine provision; He is also everything to the church and in the church.

The Bible says that Christ is the Head of the Body, the church (Col. 1:18), and He is also the Body of the Head (1 Cor. 12:12).

On one hand, Christ is the Head of the Body; He’s the unique Head of the church, the Body of Christ.

He is the One who is Head over all things to the church to dispense all that HE is and has into the church.

And He is the Head of the church; the church is the Body of Christ, and Christ is the Head of the Body.

There is one Body in this universe, with Christ as the Head and the church as the Body.

We as the Body of Christ are the continuation, expression, fullness, and embodiment of Christ to express Christ in the church.

Christ is not only the Head of the church but also the Body of this Head. Wow!

On one hand, He’s the Head; on the other hand, He’s the Body.

Our body is not different from us; we are both our head and our body. Christ is both the Head and the Body.

He is not only in all the members; He is all the members. Wow! Christ is the foundation of the church (1 Cor. 3:11).

No other foundation can man lay: only Christ is the foundation of the church.

He is the foundation that has been laid, and upon Him as the foundation all can build the church.

We need to see a vision of Christ as the unique foundation of the church; on Him the church is built, and no other foundation can man lay besides Him (Matt. 16:18).

Upon Christ as the foundation, the church is built up. If we try to lay any other foundation, what we build will not be the church.

As the living foundation of the church, Christ holds, supports, and dispenses Himself into every part of God’s building. Hallelujah!

According to Eph. 2:20, Christ is the cornerstone of the house of God, the church.

He joins the Jewish and the Gentile believers together.

In the world there are many differences, and even more, based on religion and tradition, there’s a great separation between nations and especially between Jews and Gentiles.

But Christ came to be the cornerstone of God’s building, the church as the house of God.

He joins us together and makes us one in God’s building. We can be one only in Christ as the cornerstone. Hallelujah!

Christ is all and in all in the church as the new man (Col. 3:10-11).

He is in all the members of the new man and He is all the members of the new man.

How can this be? How can Christ be me and how can Christ be you?

It all depends on who do we eat and live by, and who do we live out.

If it is Christ who lives in us, if we eat Christ and live because of Him so that He may live in us, we become Christ and Christ becomes us.

If in our experience it is no longer us who live but Christ who lives in us, we become Christ and Christ becomes us, and Christ is everything and everyone in the new man.

As we eat Christ and live because of Him, as we live Him and He lives in us, Christ is us and we are Christ, and He is all and in all in the new man.

This is how Christian life should be. Our Christian life should be a living of Christ so that we become the same as He is and He becomes one with us to live in us and be expressed through us.

For this to happen, Christ is the divine provision and He is everything to us in and for the church. Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, thank You for being everything to us in the church and for the church. You are our Head. We take You as the Head and we give You the preeminence in all things. We hold You as the head and we receive the divine dispensing coming out from the Head. Amen, Lord, You are not only the Head but also the Body! You are in us, You are one with us, and we are becoming the same as You are! You are our unique foundation in the church, and we are all built up in Christ and by Christ. You are the cornerstone of God’s house, the church, so that we may be joined together and built up together into one! Oh Lord, You are our all in all! You are all in all in the church as the one new man. May it be no longer us who live but Christ who lives in us. Keep us eating You and partaking of Your riches, Your divine provision, so that we may live because of You and live out Christ! Praise the Lord, Christ is everything to us for the church!

Christ is our All-Sufficient God and the Great I AM for us to Enjoy and Experience Day by Day

The all-inclusive Christ into whom we are rooted as our good land is our allotted portion, our unsearchably rich good land, and in Him we do not lack anything.

He is our all-sufficient God and the great I am.

We can enjoy Him and experience Him day by day, for whatever He is meets our every need in order for us to meet His need for the building up of the church as His Body (Col. 1:12; Deut. 8:9; Gen. 17:1; Phil. 1:19; John 8:58; Heb. 11:6; Matt. 16:18; Rev. 19:7-9; 21:2).

Christ is not only the divine provision; He is all-sufficient, the great I AM to meet our every need so that we can meet His need. Amen!

He is the “I am who I am” (Exo. 3:14).

He was in the past, He is in the present, and He will be in the future so that He may dispense all that He is into us to meet our every need.

He is the eternal one who did not remain by Himself in eternity but came in time to dispense all that He is into us to meet our every need so that we may live a life for His need. Amen!

Whatever we need, He is. If we need salvation, He is our salvation.

If we need peace, He is our peace. If we need joy, He is our joy.

He gives Himself to us to be everything that we need.

We have a signed check that we can fill in with whatever we need. He signed the check, we can cash it in with whatever we need, and we can do it again and again and again.

If we need one hundred dollars, we can simply fill in the check and cash it in.

If we need one billion dollars, we can simply fill it in and cash it. Hallelujah!

Do we need light, life, power, wisdom, holiness, and righteousness?

Christ Himself is our light, love, power, wisdom, holiness, and righteousness.

Everything we need can be found in the name of Jesus.

His name is glorious, wonderful, and all-inclusive; we can call on His name to receive and enjoy all that He is.

We just need to enjoy HIm. He is everything we need. We need to spend time with Him and enjoy all that He is.

And when we need anything, we simply need to ask Him, and He will be the reality of all that we need.

He doesn’t judge us or criticize us for needing Him so much; He is everything we need.

As we enjoy Christ and absorb His riches, what comes out is the church as the house of God and the city of God, the expression and dominion of God. Hallelujah!

In Him we lack nothing, for He is all-inclusive to meet all our needs so that we may meet His need.

We simply need to apply Him, enjoy Him, and experience Him, and we will be filled with Him to express Him and represent Him as His house and His kingdom.

We can call on His name day by day to be filled with Him, to partake of Him, and to absorb Him, and we will be His corporate expression on the earth.

Lord Jesus, we come to You to enjoy You as our allotted portion! Hallelujah, Christ is our unsearchably rich good land in which we do not lack anything. You are the all-sufficient God and the great I am. We come to You to enjoy You as all that we need. Only You can meet our need. We come to You to enjoy You as all that we need. Oh Lord, You are our light, our life, our power, our wisdom, our holiness, and our righteousness. You are our rich provision. Praise the Lord, everything we need is found in the name of Jesus! Lord, You meet all our need so that we may meet Your need for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ! Praise the Lord!

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 in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1990, vol. 2, “Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990,” ch. 18 , as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good land for the Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ, for the Reality and the Manifestation of the Kingdom, and for the Bride to make Herself Ready for the Lord’s Coming (2023 Winter Training), week 8, entitled, Experiencing and Enjoying the All-inclusive Christ as the Good Land — a Land in Which We Do Not Lack Anything.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Gracious Lord, Thy name “I AM” is, / Precious name, how rich and full ’tis, / All-inclusive, faithful too ’tis— / All we need, Thou art! / Thou the Son, the Father in Thee, / As the Spirit now indwell me, / That the riches of Thyself we / May experience. / Thou the Temple for God’s dwelling, / Thou the Father’s life e’er telling; / We in Thee with joy excelling / Face to face see Him. (Hymns #78 stanzas 1-3)
  – The Church is Christ’s own Body, / The Father’s dwelling-place, / The gathering of the called ones, / God blended with man’s race; / Elect before creation, / Redeemed by Calv’ry’s death, / Her character and standing / Of heaven, not of earth. (Hymns #824 stanza 1)
  – O Lord, as we consider Thee, / We worship Thee for all Thou art; / Thou art so rich, so wonderful, / So dear and precious to our heart. / What Thou art meets our every need! / Our hearts o’erflow with praise to Thee! / All our desires Thou dost exceed / And satisfy continually. (Hymns #190 stanza 1 and chorus)