We’re Labouring upon Christ Daily to have our Hands Full of Christ to Offer to God

We need to see how to live a life in the eyes of God that will enable us to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ typified by the good land; we need to live a life of labouring on Christ daily to obtain a rich produce of Christ and have our hands full of Christ when we come to the meetings to worship the Lord. Amen!

As believers in Christ, we need to realize that Christ has been allotted to us to be our portion, and we can and should enjoy this rich, all-inclusive One day by day in our daily living.

We should not remain infants, babes in Christ, like the Corinthians were – as seen in 1 Corinthians.

Rather, we need to go on with the Lord, enjoy and experience Him, and daily partake of Him as grace until we are persons in spirit, those who live one spirit with the Lord.

The good land is the all-inclusive Christ as the Spirit with our spirit, and the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with our spirit.

The Spirit with our spirit today is a bountiful Spirit with a rich and bountiful supply, and this Spirit imparts God as grace to us all the time.

Our Christian life should be a life in grace and by grace.

Grace is not merely something that God does for us or an unmerited favour He gives us. Grace is God in Christ as the Spirit coming to us to be our life, our life supply, and our everything as we enjoy Him and experience Him.

The good land, therefore, is this grace of the Lord with our spirit.

Whenever we turn to our spirit and enjoy the riches of Christ as grace, we live in the good land, we labour on the good land, and we produce something of Christ for our worship of God in the meetings of the church.

The way for us to gain the all-inclusive Christ is by grace, for grace is the good land.

May we apply all diligence to enjoy the good land by grace and as grace through the exercise of our spirit day by day!

May we learn to labour on the good land by taking grace, by enjoying the Lord to be filled with Him, so that we may gain more of Christ!

When Christ came, grace came; before Him, there was the law which was given through Moses, but when Christ came, grace came.

Grace is a person; grace is the wonderful, lovely, and lovable person of Jesus Christ coming to us as God’s embodiment to be the Spirit for us to enjoy, partake of, and be filled with so that we may live a life by grace.

Amen, may we do all things by the grace of God and may we be what we are by grace, not by our efforts or striving.

Living a Life of Labouring Upon Christ Daily to Enjoy Him Collectively in the Church

We thank and praise the Lord that He has saved us from the world and has brought us into the enjoyment of Himself as the reality of the good land.

God the Father has qualified us by the redemption of Christ, God the Son, and through the sanctification of the Spirit for a share of the all-inclusive Christ as the allotted portion of all the saints (Col. 1:12).

We thank the Father for qualifying us to partake of the riches of this all-inclusive Christ.

We need to see how to live a life in the eyes of God that will enable us to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ typified by the good land.

Now that we have received Christ, we need to walk in Him, having been rooted and being built up in Him.

Day by day we need to live a life of labouring upon Christ, a life of enjoying Christ personally so that we may enjoy Him together collectively for the building up of the Body of Christ as the temple, the house, of the living God (1 Cor. 3:16; 1 Tim. 3:15).

We need to realize that, no matter what we do and where we are, our real business and our real job is Christ; we are daily labouring upon Christ.

We may be students going to university and studying diligently to get the best grades; our real job, however, is to work upon Christ.

We may be a stay-at-home mother, taking care of many things around the house and making sure the family is taken care of and well-fed, but our real industry is Christ, for we are labouring upon Christ daily.

We may be working at the office, taking care of business and making sure things go smoothly, but our real business is to enjoy the Lord and experience Him in every situation.

All the time we need to have the realization that we’re here to enjoy Christ and experience Him so that we may gain Him.

Our life after entering into the all-inclusive Christ as the good land is a life of labouring upon Christ as the good land.

Christ is now our industry, and we are labouring upon Christ daily to produce Him in mass production.

We don’t work for the company that hired us but for “Christ incorporated”, and our unique business daily is to produce Christ.

We grow Christ, we produce Christ, and we harvest Christ.

We are daily working in a diligent way on the farm of Christ to labour upon Christ and produce Christ.

Our labour, however, is not our hard work with much striving but a rest, for our labouring upon Christ is a rest to us. God’s will for us is to enjoy Christ (Heb. 10:5-10; 1 Cor. 1:9); therefore, we need to seek to enjoy Christ and experience Him in every situation (Phil. 3:7-14).

The apostle Paul laboured upon the rich, all-inclusive Christ, even when he was well-advanced in age and mature in the Lord.

He always forgot the things which were behind and stretched forward to enjoy Christ in a new, fresh, living, and rich way, for he wanted to be found in Him and counted all things loss on account of Him. Amen!

This is what we all should do today.

We need to wake up a little earlier every morning to contact the Lord and till the ground of our heart.

We need to call on the name of the Lord throughout the day to water the plants and we need to open to the Lord again and again to receive His shining so that we may grow.

We need to be diligent to work on Christ to produce His riches.

Our Christ is rich, all-inclusive, and vast, but how much of Christ have we laboured upon and how much Christ have we produced?

The all-inclusive Christ is before us and His riches are unsearchable (Eph. 3:8), but how many of His riches are wrought into us by our labouring upon Christ daily?

Though Christ is rich beyond measure, the church today seems to be grovelling in poverty because the Lord’s children are indolent.

They are like lazy people in a rich land with much abundance, who do not exercise to labour upon Christ.

Prov. 6:9-11 gives us a glimpse of how the sluggard lies there, still seeking to sleep and rest, folding his hands, and his poverty comes upon him like a robber. Oh, Lord!

Our good land, Christ, is bountiful and rich with many resources, but we may lack in our labouring upon Christ to produce His riches.

May we realize that we cannot be lazy in such a rich, all-inclusive land. We should not be too busy with our worldly industries and our family life; we must be diligent to till our spiritual ground, sow the spiritual seed, and water the spiritual plants all the time.

Every morning we need to pray-read the Word, taking in the word of God by means of all prayer and petition (Eph. 6:17-18).

Every day we need to seek to contact the Lord and open our being to Him so that we may be those labouring upon Christ daily by seeking to enjoy and experience Him in all things. Our land is rich in resources but we may be poor in produce.

May this not be the case with us.

Lord Jesus, we love You and we come to You to enjoy You and experience You! Hallelujah, God the Father has qualified us through the redemption of His Son and the sanctification of the Spirit to partake of the riches of Christ as the good land! Praise the Lord, the all-inclusive Christ with His inexhaustible riches has been allotted to us to be our portion, and we can be those labouring upon Christ to gain Christ. Amen, Lord, we want to be those who are diligently labouring upon Christ day by day to gain a rich produce of Christ. Save us from being indolent and from languishing in the land. Save us from being rich in resources but poor in produce due to our laziness in labouring upon Christ daily. We want to wake up a little earlier every morning to enjoy You and pray-read Your word. We want to contact You throughout the day. Amen, Lord, we want to be those whose unique business and industry is Christ! Oh, what a rich Christ we have! Amen, Lord, teach us to labour constantly on Christ to obtain the riches of Christ and be filled with Christ!

Come to the Meetings with our Hands Full of the Rich Produce of Christ to Offer to God

Day by day we need to walk in Christ and partake of His riches in spirit. Every place that we walk on, every place that the sole of our foot walks on in Christ, is ours.

In good situations up on the mountain and in low situations in the valley, we want to be those labouring upon Christ daily to gain His riches.

We do not want to be those who are lazy or slothful in this rich, all-inclusive land. Our Christ is rich beyond measure, but we may be grovelling in poverty because we are indolent (Prov. 6:6-11; 24:30- 34; 26:14; Matt. 25:26, 30).

With Him, there’s no problem, but with us there may be a problem, for we may not labour upon Christ day by day.

May we redeem the time to gain Christ and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ in all His manifold aspects.

If we apply ourselves, if we exercise to enjoy the Lord, we will gain the breadth, the length, the depth, and the height of the unsearchable riches of Christ together with all the saints (Eph. 3:16-21).

Why should we undernourished be when we have such a rich Christ?

May we daily labour upon Christ and bring the rich produce of Christ to the meetings of the church.

When we come to the meetings to worship the Lord, we should not come with our hands empty; rather, our hands may be full of the produce of Christ (Deut. 16:15-16).

God is offended and upset with His people when they come before Him with empty hands.

Being empty-handed when we come to the church meetings shames God, goes against God’s desire, and disappoints God.

He has qualified us and has given us the opportunity to enjoy all-inclusive Christ, but we may be lazy in our labouring upon Christ, so we may not have our hands full of Christ when we come to the meetings. Oh, Lord.

We all need to bring something. Each one of us has a portion of Christ.

When each one of us brings the produce of Christ resulting from their labouring upon Christ daily, there will be a revival in the church meetings, for all the saints will be filled with Christ and will overflow with Christ.

This responsibility is not only with the elders or the leading brothers but with all of us.

We all need to rise up and enjoy the Lord.

We all need to produce enough of Christ so that there would be a surplus remaining for the poor and the needy, for the priests and the Levites, and offer the best for the Lord Himself (15:11; 18:3-4; 12:11).

On the personal side, we all need to enjoy Christ, cultivate Christ, and produce Christ, and then we need to gather the rich produce of Christ not only for ourselves but with a surplus, something extra that we offer to God and also to the saints.

Some among us are poor and needy, and they are richly fed when the saints bring their surplus of Christ to the meetings of the church.

We also supply those who serve God full-time, and we bring the top portion, the best portion, to offer to God for His satisfaction. In this way, every party has something to eat.

We shouldn’t labour on Christ just so that we may enjoy Christ; we need to bring our portion of Christ to the meetings of the church to have a love feast, a “potluck” of Christ so that all can eat and be satisfied.

To worship God with Christ is to worship Him collectively with all the children of God by enjoying Christ with one another and with God (1 Cor. 14:26).

The real worship of God is not a formality or some rituals of a religious nature; it is to worship God in spirit and truthfulness.

We need to bring Christ as our truthfulness to the place that God has chosen, our mingled spirit, to offer this Christ to God.

God wants to eat, and His food is Christ; He enjoys His Son to the uttermost.

He wants to enjoy the Christ that we have enjoyed.

He wants to partake of the top portion of the Christ we experienced, the Christ we have eaten and assimilated, the Christ who has become our constitution.

We need to offer this Christ to God in the form of prayer, praise, a hymn, and a song, having our heart full of joy.

This is how we worship God, and we do this with the saints in the meetings of the church.

Lord Jesus, we want to enjoy You more today. We want to experience You more so that You may work Yourself into us and saturate our inner being with Your riches. Amen, Lord, we open our whole being to You. Saturate us with all that You are. Work Yourself into us. We want to be those labouring upon Christ daily by contacting You through the exercise of our spirit. May we have a rich produce of Christ not only for ourselves but also to bring to the meetings to worship the Lord. Amen, Lord, may we not come to the meetings of the church with our hands empty; may our hands be full of the produce of Christ! We want to worship God collectively with all the children of God by enjoying Christ with one another and with God! Amen, Father, may You be satisfied as You enjoy the Christ that has become our experience, enjoyment, and constitution! We offer this Christ to You for You to be satisfied and to gain the genuine worship!

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 Minoru Chen in the message for this week, and portions from, The All-inclusive Christ, ch. 15 (by Witness Lee), 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 12, entitled, Living a Life of Enjoying Christ as the Good Land with the Temple, the Dwelling Place of God, and the City, the Kingdom of God, as Its Issue.
• Similar articles on this topic:
  – Labouring on Christ that we may have something of Christ to bring to God, a portion from, Life-Study of Leviticus, Chapter 4, by Witness Lee.
  – My Experience Growing up in the Church Life with Spiritual Fathers and Mothers, via, Living to Him.
  – Labor, worship, the meetings, the goal of the Lord’s recovery, a portion from, Life Messages, Vol. 1 (#1-41), Chapter 28, by Witness Lee.
  – Grace to Us is the Conclusion of the Bible, via, New Jerusalem blog.
  – Ministry Excerpts from Recent Conferences and Trainings – 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 – December 2023 Semiannual Training, via, Having this Ministry.
  – Turn Spiritual Songs into Simple Morning Prayers, via, Holding to Truth in Love.
  – Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ—“a Land Flowing with Milk and Honey”—and Bringing the Surplus of the Riches of Christ to the Meetings of the Church for an Exhibition of Christ and the Corporate Worship of God – outline via, Church in Markham.
  – Whene’er we meet with Christ endued, a wonderful hymn via, Hymnal.net
  – Meeting by bringing the surplus of the good land as an offering to God, a portion from, The Ground of the Church and the Meetings of the Church, Chapter 3, by Witness Lee.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Lord, how we bless Thee for this land, / The all-inclusive Christ! / We’ve eaten Him, we’re filled with Him, / O how He has sufficed! / Teach us to labor constantly / Upon this vast reality; / This is our joy, this our employ— / Christ our land! (Hymns #1164 stanza 6)
  – All we need to do is labor, / Working on the land each day; / Not expecting ’manna’ blessing, / Working in a normal way. / God and man cooperating / While for harvest we are waiting. / Labor thus will bring the increase / Of the land with all its worth, / And the Lord will have the harvest, / When He comes to reap the earth. / To provide the Lord the way, / We must labor day by day. (Hymns #1166 stanzas 6-7)
  – Laboring on the good land, laboring in the morning, / Laboring through the noontime to the early eve, / Laboring for a harvest, reaping all the produce, / Coming to the meeting, bringing in the sheaves. / Reaping wheat and barley, death and resurrection, / Though the loss sustained our old man often grieves; / But in life abundant, life in resurrection, / Coming to the meeting, bringing in the sheaves. (Hymns #1167 stanzas 1-2)