God’s Move follows our Move, we Follow the Spirit, and the Spirit is in God’s move

In cooperating with God to carry out His move we need to realize that we believers in Christ are living creatures, and the move of God’s work depends upon our moving; God’s move follows our move, we follow the Spirit, and the Spirit is in the wheels – God’s move.

This is signified by the four living creatures in Ezekiel 1, who each had a wheel by their faces, and when they moved, the wheel moved; they followed the Spirit, the Spirit was in the wheel, and whenever they moved, God moved with them and through them.

The move of God in His economy is signified by a high and awesome wheel (see Ezek. 1:15-21). God’s purpose according to His heart’s desire is carried out in His economy, and the move of God in His economy – the great and awesome move of God is in man and through man.

The move of God in His economy is likened in Ezekiel to a wheel, which denotes not an ordinary move but a special move; the hub of the wheel signifies Christ (the center of God’s economy) and the rim signifies the church (Christ’s reproduction, expression, and counterpart).

We as believers in Christ are the many spokes joined to Christ in spirit and built together as the church, the Body of Christ, consummating in the New Jerusalem, to be the visible and tangible part of the Lord’s move on earth today.

God’s move today is in man to deify man to bring forth the one new man, so that Christ may have His corporate expression and administration. God’s move is to work Himself into man and mingle Himself with man so that man would be fully one with Him to move with Him in His move on earth.

Today we as believers in Christ are not merely doing outward activities in God’s name; we allow God to work Himself into us, and He is making us the same as He is in life, nature, expression, and move, but not in the Godhead.

The only way for us to be one with the Lord in His move is by becoming Him; God doesn’t just want our consent and outward cooperation – He became us to make us Him so that He and we, we and Him, would move as one, and He would carry out His move in our move.

Every Believer and Every Local Church should have the Lord’s Move with them

Are we living creatures? Yes! If we look at our condition and experience, we may be introspective and not really agree with the fact that we are living creatures….but the fact is that Christ is in us to be our life and person, and in the eyes of God we are a new man, a living creature!

We have the life of God to enliven us within, and He is the source of our vitality. As living creatures there should be a wheel with us – every individual believer and each local church should have a high and awesome wheel with them, the Lord’s move.

Whether we are at home taking care of our family, at the office doing our work, at university as a student, seeking for a job, or serving the Lord with our full time, as long as we are living creatures, God’s move is with us.

When a church has the Lord’s move, no one needs to declare that the move of the Lord is with them; the move of the Lord will be manifest to all, and everyone can see the great wheel – high and awesome – with the saints. If we are proper and normal, we as believers should have the Lord’s move with us.

We see an example of this in Acts 13:1-2, where there were some brothers ministering to the Lord and praying, and the Holy Spirit initiated a move with two of them, that they would go forth for the work He has called them.

The rest of the brothers prayed and blessed them and sent them out, and Paul and Barnabas went one with the Lord; they had the Lord’s move with them, and wherever they went, the high and awesome wheel of the Lord’s move was with them.

As believers in Christ, we have many ways to move, as seen in the living creatures; we have the wings of an eagle (soaring above any earthly problem and situation by being one with Christ in His ascension) and the hoofs of a calf (a straight walk, with much discernment).

When we are at work, doing our job, we should daily move by the eagle’s wings and the calf’s hoofs, and our co-workers will see that with us there’s something powerful, for we can endure things that others can’t endure, and we are also honest, straight, frank, and sincere, with no crookedness.

They will see us having “the eagle’s wings” and “the calf’s hoofs”, and they will be convicted in their conscience.

In addition to this move, however, there should be an extraordinary move of the Lord with us, the high and awesome wheel; such a move will cause some of them to repent and be gained by the Lord.

Wherever we go, we should have the high and awesome wheel of the Lord’s move with us; wherever we are, the Lord’s move should be with us.

We may be little, even less than the least of all the saints (Eph. 3:8), but the Lord’s move should be with us.

We should not be coward or shrinking believers, but bold ones who let others see that we have God’s move with us.

Lord Jesus, we desire to be living creatures with the high and awesome wheel of the Lord’s move besides us! Thank You for coming into us to be our life within; You enliven us and You are the source of our vitality. Lord, wherever we are, may Your move also be. Move in our moving. We don’t want to be coward believers; we want to be bold in our oneness with You to go one with You and have Your move with us. May we as believers and may all the local churches have a high and awesome wheel of the Lord’s move with us!

God’s Move follows our Move, we Follow the Spirit, and the Spirit is in God’s move

The matter of the Lord’s move and our move is quite wonderful and mysterious, in the principle of incarnation; as seen in Ezek. 1:19, the wheels follow the living creatures – this indicates that the move of God’s work depends upon our moving.

It is not that we first wait for God to move, but that God waits for us to move, and when we do, he also moves. God’s move follows our move, just as the wheels moved when the living creatures moved; if we don’t move, God is limited in His move.

The Lord told the disciples that the harvest is great, and He asked them to beseech the Lord of the harvest to thrust out workers in His harvest; if we don’t ask Him, He is limited and even stopped in His move.

Our moving should not be according to the flesh or our natural strength; rather, when we feel that the Spirit is moving in us and speaking to us, we should exercise faith and move in faith.

Many times God’s move is not that apparent, but inwardly we may have a feeling to go somewhere or visit someone, and as we follow the Spirit’s leading within, God is moving in us, and we are moving one with God. We should exercise our faith to cooperate with the Lord and follow the Spirit’s leading within us.

We shouldn’t look at the outward situation or at the environment, and we should not pay attention to our emotions or feelings; rather, we need to walk by faith and not by appearance (2 Cor. 5:7).

If we watch the wind, we will not sow, and if we look at the cloud, we will not reap (Eccl. 11:4); but if we look away from anything outward to the One on the throne, we will be infused with faith and we will walk and move by faith, and the Lord will move in our move!

In Ezek. 1:19 and 21 we see that the wheels follow the living creatures, and the creatures follow the Spirit, but the Spirit is in the wheels; this indicates that the move of the Lord in our move is in the principle of incarnation.

This is a mysterious yet wonderful thing in our spiritual experience, that is, that the wheel of the Lord’s move follows us, the living and vital creatures, and we follow the Spirit – and the Spirit is in the wheel. Wherever the Spirit goes, we as living creatures go, and the Lord’s move is with us.

It’s not easy to determine who follows who: is it us following the Spirit, or is the Lord following us with His move. In the New Testament age God moves and does things in the principle of incarnation: God in man, man in God, God mingled and blended with man to speak and do things as one.

In 1 Cor. 7:10-12 Paul spoke concerning marriage, and he had the confidence that, even though he charged the saints, it was the Lord who charged them; on the one hand it was his opinion or feeling, but it was actually the Lord speaking through him.

Today in His economy God needs us to cooperate with Him; if we don’t cooperate with Him, He can’t move, but if we move one spirit with Him (1 Cor. 6:17), God has a way to move. Such a move in oneness with the Lord as we follow the Spirit is the Lord’s move on earth today, and this is the Lord’s recovery.

The Lord’s recovery is not a group of zealous people who are determined to do a great work for God, neither is it a group of passive people who are not doing anything except waiting for the Lord to move.

The Lord’s recovery is a group of people who are living, and their spirit is mingled with the Lord; God moves in them, they move in the Lord, and God’s move is through them, as they follow the Spirit.

Lord Jesus, we want to learn to move, speak, and do everything in the organic union with You, following the Spirit’s leading, so that we may have God’s move wherever we go and whatever we do. Show us how much You need us to be one with You to move so that You can move in our move. Oh Lord, we want to be one with You in Your move. We move in faith – not by what we see or feel, but in the faith of the Son of God, being joined to the Lord in spirit, and following the leading of the Spirit. Amen, Lord, we are one with You in Your move: move in our move as we move one with You by following the Spirit!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by brother James L. for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Ezekiel, msg. 9 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Special Fellowship concerning the World Situation and the Lord’s Move, msg. 1 (week 1), Cooperating with God to Carry Out His Move in His Economy by Knowing This Age and by Knowing the Present Truth.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # Pray to labor with the Lord / Till the wheel begins to move; / Pray together with the Lord / Till the Church His pow’r shall prove. (Hymns #786)
  # Teach us to pray! Move on our hearts, O Lord, / Till Thine own passion all our being move! / Teach us! Pray in us, till our prayer shall be / Christ in us praying to the Christ above! (Hymns #762)
  # Let us move together with the Lord through prayer; / For His move on earth we must prepare. / Lord do grow in us ’till we’re matured in life, / As Your army fully qualified. (Song on moving with God in prayer)