God is Happy when we Worship Him in Spirit, are One with Him, and Live for God’s Good Pleasure

God is happy when we worship Him in spirit, when we’re one with Him in His ministry to carry out His eternal economy, and when we are glorified; we need to be those in whom, with whom, and through whom God may have His good pleasure! Amen!

There are some things that make God happy, and we can be those on earth who please God and live for His good pleasure.

God is happy in particular when we remain in our spirit and pay attention to our spirit, for Christ abides in our spirit, and when we are in our spirit, we abide in Christ.

When we set our mind on our spirit, when we pay attention to our spirit, we abide in the Lord and He abides in us; the result is that we can ask whatever we will, and He will do it for us.

When we abide in our spirit, when we remain in the mingled spirit, what we ask will be according to the Lord, for we abide in Him and He in us prays and intercedes, mainly concerning the fruit-bearing for God’s expression and glorification.

When we abide in Christ by remaining in our mingled spirit, we are in Christ in a practical way, and in us the evil one has nothing – no way, no opportunity, no ground in anything. Amen!

May we be those who live a life for God’s happiness, that is, for God to be happy with us, doing things for His good pleasure!

God is happy when we serve Him as a slave by living in the reality of the kingdom of God in the way of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit (Rom. 14:17-18).

This is well-pleasing to God and approved by men, and it preserves the oneness of the church for the practical Body life. We need to be those who serve God in spirit – in our mingled spirit; we not only worship Him in spirit but also serve Him in spirit in the gospel.

In our living and in our serving, we need to take Christ as our righteousness, our peace, and our joy; this is our service to Him.

We make God happy when we live in the reality of the kingdom by enjoying Christ. Amen, we want to be those who make God happy, for when He in us is happy, we are truly happy!

It makes God happy when we serve Him in spirit by living in the reality of the kingdom of God; this is well-pleasing to God and also approved by man.

God is Happy when we Worship Him in Spirit, for His Economy is Focused on and Carried out by our Mingled Spirit

In Rom. 8:16 we are told that the Spirit witnesses with our spirit, and in 1 Cor. 6:17 we see that he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

The divine Spirit is mingled with our human spirit to become one mingled spirit, and God wants us to worship Him in spirit and in truthfulness.

God is happy when we worship Him in spirit; John 4:23-24 says that God is seeking a particular kind of people, that is, those who worship Him in spirit.

He is seeking a particular kind of worshipper, a person who worships God in spirit and in truthfulness.

To worship God in spirit is to exercise our spirit to contact Him; to worship Him in truthfulness is to take Christ as our divine reality which becomes our genuineness and sincerity for the true worship of God.

God is happy when we worship Him in spirit, for His eternal economy is focused on and carried out by our mingled spirit.

Our spirit is mingled with the divine spirit to be one spirit; this mingled spirit is the key to the carrying out of God’s economy.

The word “in” (in spirit) can be considered as an instrumental preposition, and it can be translated as “with”; we worship God with our spirit.

Our spirit serves as an organ for us to worship God. Just as we use our eyes to see, our ears to hear, and our mouth to taste, so we use our spirit to worship God. ur spirit is the part of our being by which we worship.

The Spirit has become not only our new person but also the part of our being by which we worship God.

The word “worship” implies the thought of service; the word “serve” in Rom. 1:9 is translated as “worship” in some other versions.

Our worship is our service to God, and our service to God is also our worship. When we worship God, we serve Him; when we serve God, we worship Him.

May we be in our mingled spirit today, worshipping God in spirit and truthfulness! The most pleasant thing in Gods eyes today is that we remain in our spirit.

Everything we do, everything we say, and everything we act should be in our spirit. All day long we need to remain in spirit; our speaking, thinking, move, and acting should all be in spirit.

Our whole being with all our daily living and activities should be in the mingled spirit. It pleases God when we live in spirit, serve in spirit, and worship Him in spirit.

When we live in the mingled spirit, we are pleasing to God; when we live, speak, think, move, and act in spirit, we are victorious, holy, and spiritual.

We will be pleasing not only to God but also to man. Such a daily life in the mingled spirit for the fulfillment of God’s economy, a living in which we worship Him in spirit and truthfulness, is pleasing to God, bring Him joy.

A Christian life and a church life that are in spirit are what pleases Him.

Lord Jesus, we worship You in spirit and in truthfulness! We exercise our mingled spirit to worship God and make Him happy. Amen, Lord, we don’t want to do anything outside or apart from our spirit. We exercise to be in spirit, act in spirit, live in spirit, and do all things in the mingled spirit. May we speak, think, move, and act in spirit so that God would be satisfied and man would also be pleased. May our service and worship to God be in spirit and truthfulness, with the exercise of our spirit and with Christ as our reality. Amen, Lord, keep us in our mingled spirit today!

God is Happy when we’re One with Him in His Ministry to Carry out His Eternal Economy

God has an economy, and He is happy when we are one with Him in His ministry to carry out His eternal economy.

In the Lord’s ministry, we care only for the divine dispensing of the Triune God, embodied in Christ and realized as the Spirit, into His chosen people (Eph. 1:9-11; 3:2, 9-10; 2 Cor. 3:3, 6; 1 Pet. 4:10).

The Lord’s heart’s desire is to infuse us with Himself and dispense Himself into man, and this is His economy; we want to be fully one with Him for this.

May we be able to say this with our whole heart, that all we care for is that God in Christ would dispense Himself into us. This is what the New Testament talks about.

Every morning we need to have an aspiration that the Lord would dispense Himself into our entire being the whole day and have a way to flow through us to dispense Himself into others also.

God’s economy is to dispense Himself as the Spirit into others so that they would be built up into the church, the Body of Christ, consummating in the New Jerusalem.

We need to be good stewards of the varied grace of God (1 Pet. 4:10); this stewardship was given to us for others (Eph. 3:2).

The grace of God is God in Christ as the Spirit for our enjoyment; this enjoyment, this grace, is given to us for others.

Our motivation for enjoying the Lord is others, the brothers and the sisters that He put us with.

We need to enjoy the Lord not only to grow in life and be inwardly supplied but also to help others enjoy the Lord.

We need to enjoy the Lord for others’ sake and others need to enjoy the Lord for our sake. Our enjoyment of God is for others.

How can we help others if we ourselves do not enjoy the Lord? We need to enjoy the Lord and then bring others to also enjoy the Lord; this makes God happy.

It makes God happy when we not only enjoy Him but also bring others into the enjoyment of God.

The totality of our service is “to me for you”; if there is no “to me”, there is no “to you”, for if there’s no enjoyment of CHrist personally, there is no dispensing of God into others through us.

If we exercise to enjoy the Lord and dispense Him into others, we are one with the Lord in His ministry to dispense Him into others; this makes God happy.

May we be the good stewards of the varied grace of God, the grace of God enjoyed by us in many ways and at many times, so that we may dispense God into others also.

May we be the good economists who carry out God’s economy by enjoying the unsearchable riches of Christ as the life-giving Spirit and dispense Him into others in many ways for their enjoyment.

Lord Jesus, we are one with You in Your ministry to carry out God’s eternal economy! We care only for the divine dispensing of the Triune God embodied in Christ and realized as the Spirit into His chosen people! Dispense Yourself into us this whole day, dear Lord, and make us channels for You to dispense Yourself into others also. Keep us open to Your divine dispensing and flow out of us to dispense Yourself into others also. May we enjoy Christ with all His unsearchable riches and may we dispense Him into others also for their enjoyment! Amen, Lord, we want to make You happy by being one with You to carry out Your economy!

Being one with Christ who Sacrificed Himself on the Cross to Live for God’s Good Pleasure

We must be a people in whom, with whom, and through whom God may have His good pleasure; we must be determined to gain the honor of being well-pleasing to God (2 Cor. 5:9).

How can we do this? It is by being one with Christ as the One who sacrificed Himself on the cross to produce new wine to cheer God and men (Judg. 9:12-13; Matt. 9:17).

May we be those who gain the honor of being well-pleasing to Him; may our life and work, our living and service, bring pleasure and delight to God.

Christ is the new wine, the reality of the new wine; He cheers God and man, and He makes God happy and man happy also.

In Judges 9:12-13, the trees came to the vine and asked it to rule over them; the vine said, Shall I leave my new wine and go wave over the trees? In other words, shall the vine leave its new wine which cheers God and men, and take a hierarchical position to rule over other trees?

If we have the attitude that we want to have a position, we may lose the enjoyment of Christ as the new wine.

Our desire and aspiration are not to rule over others or to have a higher hierarchical position but to be one with Christ, who sacrificed Himself on the cross, to live a life for God’s good pleasure and for man’s satisfaction.

The love of Christ constrains us, that we would no longer live to ourselves but to Him who died for us and has been raised (2 Cor. 5:14-15); we want the love of God to constrain us and fill us so that this love would become our new wine.

May the love of God constrain us and fill us, and may this love fill us to overflowing, until this love overflows through us as the new wine to cheer God and man.

May we remain in our identification with Christ (Psa. 16:11); He shows us the path of life, and in His presence, there is fulness of joy.

When we are in God’s presence, we are full of joy; nothing can match God’s presence, and His presence means everything to us.

God’s presence is His smile; when we have God’s smile, we have everything we need, and His presence is real to us.

When we have God’s smile, this means we are doing what makes God happy. In His presence, in our spirit, we have fullness of joy, which becomes our fullness of joy.

Lord Jesus, we want to be people in whom God may have His good pleasure. We are determined to gain the honor of being well-pleasing to God. We are one with You, Lord Jesus, to not sacrifice our enjoyment of Christ so that we may live a life for God’s satisfaction. We treasure Your presence, dear Lord. We treasure to see Your smile and have Your sweet presence with us. Keep us in Your presence today, and keep us enjoying You in spirit. We love You, Lord Jesus, and we want to live in Your presence, having Your smile, and making You happy!

God is Happy with our Glorification, the Consummation of God’s Complete Salvation

God is happy with our glorification, and the entire creation eagerly awaits the revelation of the sons of God.

We also groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body (Rom. 8:18-23).

The ultimate consummation of God’s complete salvation, His good pleasure, is our glorification.

He not only redeems us judicially but also saves us much more in His life until we are fully glorified. First, Christ redeems us judicially; we receive the forgiveness of sins, the washing away of our sins, and the justification by life, for Christ Himself becomes our righteousness.

Then, even more, we are reconciled to God through the death of His Son, we are much more saved in His life, having been reconciled.

His organic salvation includes our regeneration (we are born of God in our spirit), sanctification (we partake of His holy nature), renewing (we partake of His divine element), transformation (we enjoy His divine being), conformation (we partake of His divine image), and eventually glorification!

Our glorification according to God’s good pleasure is the final step of God’s organic salvation, when we are fully glorified to be fully manifested as sons of God in the universe.

Hallelujah, the day will come when we all will be glorified!

The day will come when we will be the same as Christ in life, nature, expression, and function, and God will be beside Himself with excitement, for the man created by Him yet ruined by Satan is now glorified to express God corporately in glory! Hallelujah!

When we realize this, when we see our glorious future, we consider the sufferings of this present age as being not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed upon us! Hallelujah!

Today we groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body. How grateful we are to be in the Lord’s recovery, where He is regaining His good pleasure.

We are here to make God happy. We are living and walking according to the pleasure of God, and this pleasure will reach its climax on the day that we are glorified!

Lord Jesus, keep us in the process of Your organic salvation. Keep us in the process of being regenerated, renewed, transformed, conformed, and glorified. Amen, Lord, we groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body! Bring that day soon, dear Lord, in which we are fully glorified to express You corporately in glory for the fulfillment of Your good pleasure! Amen, Lord Jesus, we want to live and walk according to Your good pleasure until we are fully transformed and conformed to Your image to express You in full!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a message by bro. Ed Marks on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1978, vol. 2, “Life Messages, Volume 1,” pp.422-423, 457-463, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Meeting God’s Need and Present needs in the Lord’s Recovery, week 2, God’s Good Pleasure.
• Recommended further reading:
  – I long for fellowship in spirit, / That opened shall my spirit be, / Long to be rescued from seclusion, / And with the saints to worship Thee. / I long for fellowship in spirit, / Long that my spirit forth may come, / Long to be saved from self-deception, / And every hindrance overcome. (Hymns #847)
  – To the lost world minister Christ, / The very Christ you enjoy, / Imparting Christ to all your friends / As all their boast and their joy. (Hymns #922)
  – For the glorious revelation / Of the sons of God to come, / All the creatures wait, expecting, / That they all may free become. / All creation groans together, / Subject now to vanity, / Looking for their full deliv’rance / From corruption’s slavery. (Hymns #970)