The strategic and central point of God’s economy is the Divine Spirit dwelling in our human spirit and the two mingled together as one spirit; our spirit should be the central government and most prominent part of our being, and we can live in our spirit by having a continual prayer, watching and praying to live and do all things in spirit. Amen!
Daniel was a person in his spirit; he had an excellent spirit, he cared for his spirit, and he did not allow anything to interfere with his time with the Lord in spirit.
To be a spiritual man, a man living in his spirit, is not something individualistic; if we’re genuine spiritual men, we do everything in the Body, through the Body, and for the Body.
We need to realize that our spirit is the key for us to unlock all that God is and enjoy all that He is, has, and has done in us and for us.
God created us in His image and according to His likeness, and He put in us a human spirit; He breathed the breath of life into man’s nostrils and man became a living soul.
Man was created very differently from animals, for man has a human spirit.
Animals have a body made of flesh and bones, and they also have a soul, which is quite small; however, they do not have a spirit.
Only man has a spirit, for only man can worship God, contact God, and partake of what God is by means of his spirit.
Due to man’s fall, man’s spirit became mortified, broken, and deadened, for it was suppressed and put down, having no function.
Many times today people do all kinds of things which makes us wonder if they even have a spirit.
Even in the church life, some saints who do not exercise their spirit, behave in a way as if they do not have a spirit.
They do not hold their spirit in a proper way, they do not mind their spirit, and they do not care for their spirit; therefore, they behave and live like the people in the world, though they are in the church. Oh, Lord Jesus!
Thank the Lord for God’s recovery in His salvation; when we were saved, our spirit was regenerated, rebuilt, and reinforced with the vivifying Spirit of God, a Spirit that has been sevenfold intensified!
Our spirit is now the dwelling place of God, and the Triune God in Christ as the Spirit is in our spirit to be our companion and our life and life supply.
As long as we turn to our spirit, live in our spirit, and are in our spirit, we are one with God, we partake of God’s riches, and we fulfil God’s purpose for God.
The secret is our spirit. We need to discern our spirit from our soul and we need to learn to exercise our spirit and live in our spirit.
The Central Government of our Being should be our Spirit; we need to Live in Spirit by Continually Praying
The mark of God’s economy is our spirit. The key to enjoying God, worshipping God, and partaking of what God is to us is our spirit.
Therefore, the central government of our being should be our spirit, for a spirit who is ruled and controlled by his spirit is a spiritual man (1 Cor. 2:14-15; 3:1; 14:32; 2 Cor. 2:12-15; Eph. 3:16; 1 Pet. 3:4; Dan. 6:3, 10).
Daniel in the Old Testament was a man who was ruled by his spirit.
He ended up very high in the governmental ranks, next to the king, and he was a brilliant person; however, what stood out about him was his excellent spirit.
He had an excellent mind and a super intellect, but the most excellent part of his being was his spirit.
When others saw him, they saw that this man had an excellent spirit.
Others around him were jealous of him and wanted to do something to kill him, but the only thing they could find to pick on was his time of prayer before his God.
Daniel exercised his spirit regularly and built up a habit of exercising his spirit.
Today we need to be spiritual men, those who have the spirit as the central government of their being.
Day by day we need to watch and pray so that we may live in spirit, caring for the sense of life in our spirit (Rom. 8:6).
When we pray continually, we are kept in our spirit.
May we realize that the Spirit of God today – the all-inclusive Spirit of the Triune God – dwells in our regenerated human spirit and works in our spirit.
God’s Spirit and our spirit have been mingled together, and they exist, live, and work together as one mingled spirit.
Now we need to live in our spirit and walk according to our spirit; this can be considered as the consummate charge in the Scriptures to the believers.
May we care for our spirit. May we spiritual men who discern all things (1 Cor. 2:15) by being in our spirit.
The central government of our being should be our spirit. We may say that our spirit is the central government of our being, but in reality, something else governs us.
When we come together with the saints and pray together, we are in our spirit, and the Lord as the Spirit has a way of living in us, speaking through us, and controlling the different parts of our being.
But what about after the time of prayer with the saints?
What is the central government of our being when we are with our spouse and with our children? How about at work, what is our central government?
Some people are governed by their opinions; they are very opinionated, and they have something to say about everything.
Other people, especially the older ones, may not manifest their opinions so easily; they are smooth and agreeable outwardly, but inwardly they are unwilling and dissatisfied.
They may go along with those around them for a while, but eventually, their central government will be manifested – their dissatisfaction and unwillingness will be made clear.
Some saints are quick to take action; they are action people, having no regard for their spirit. They see a need, make a decision, take action, and get things done, the quicker, the better. Oh, Lord!
Some sisters are governed by their emotions; they find it enjoyable to pray and enjoy the Lord with others, but when their emotions are touched and they get angry, they feel they must give vent to their emotions.
Later they may repent, but their emotions are their central government. Oh, Lord!
So many times it seems that only in our time with the Lord personally and in our corporate time of fellowship and prayer with the saints do we have our spirit as our central government.
It seems that, as soon as the meeting or our time with the Lord is over, we “fire our spirit” and take care of business ourselves, having no need for the Lord in our spirit. Oh, Lord Jesus!
The Lord Jesus is installed in us as the Spirit, the divine and heavenly electricity, but we refuse to turn on the switch, so He cannot operate in our being.
May we learn to turn to our spirit again and again by having a continual prayer.
May we exercise our spirit all the time, not just in the meetings but even throughout the day, so that the central government of our being would be our mingled spirit.
When we care for our spirit and live in our spirit, the Lord will have a way to control our inner being.
When we turn to our spirit and live in our spirit, we will not be so quick to utter our opinions, and we will not speak lightly.
When we’re in our spirit and our spirit is our central government, our pride will be smitten, and we will sense a restraint in our being; even in the smallest things we do, we will be constrained by the Lord within us.
When we’re not in our spirit, we feel free to do and say as we please; however, the Lord’s presence is not with us.
Some were even given up by the Lord in the vanity of their mind, being so wild in disregarding their spirit (Rom. 1:28).
May we be those who turn to our spirit and pray unceasingly to contact Him and depend on Him, having our spirit as our central government in our daily living.
When we do this, the Lord will have a way to live in us, govern our being, and be expressed through us.
Lord Jesus, keep us turning to You in our spirit. We want to take our spirit as our central government in our whole being and in our daily living. Amen, Lord, may the most prominent part of our being be our spirit. May we be ruled and controlled by our spirit so that we may be spiritual men. We come to You again and again, Lord, to contact You, touch You, and check with You about all things. We need You, Lord. We depend on You. We exercise to live one spirit with You. Save us from being ruled by our emotions, our quick temper, or our opinions. We open to You every inner chamber of our heart; flow in us, add Yourself to us, and have Your way to govern us and rule us inwardly. Amen, Lord, we want to let our spirit be our central government. Keep us in a spirit of prayer, always watching and praying so that we may live one with You in every detail of our daily life. Amen, Lord, may we be in our spirit today so that our thoughts may be restricted, our opinions would not be uttered, and our pride may be smitten. Keep us on the narrow path and on the constricted way of living in our spirit and having our spirit as our central government!
The Strategic and Central Point of God’s Economy is our Mingled Spirit: the Divine Spirit Dwelling in our Human Spirit to be Mingled as One
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According to the divine revelation in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, the strategic and central point of God’s economy is the divine Spirit dwelling in our human spirit and the two mingled together as one spirit, the mingled spirit (see John 3:6; 4:24; Rom. 8:16; 2 Cor. 3:17; 2 Tim. 4:22; 1 Cor. 6:17; 1 Tim. 1:4; 2 Cor. 4:13).
God has strategically created us in a particular way with a special organ, our spirit, for us to contact God, receive God, worship God, and be one with God.
The strategic and crucial point of God’s economy is our mingled spirit – God as the Spirit coming into our spirit to dwell in our spirit, mingle Himself with us as one spirit, and be one with us in spirit.
The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God (Rom. 8:16).
We can worship God as Spirit in our spirit, for we have a spirit in which and by which we can contact God, receive God, and worship God (John 4:24).
We were born of God as Spirit to be a spirit; in our spirit, we are one with the Lord as one spirit (John 3:6; 1 Cor. 6:17).
The great way to fulfill God’s economy is for us to live and do everything according to the Spirit by exercising our spirit (Job 10:13; Eph. 3:9; Rom. 8:4; Gal. 5:25).
Our spirit needs to be the central government of our being, and we need to live and do everything in and according to the Spirit by exercising our spirit.
When we exercise our spirit to contact the Lord, we will have the inner leading, anointing, and governing from the Lord for us to do what we need to do according to Him.
We can never graduate from exercising our spirit to be led by the Spirit in our spirit.
The way for us to fulfil God’s economy is to exercise our spirit. We exercise our spirit, we reject our human thought, and we care for and respect the Body life.
When we’re in the spirit, when we are in our mingled spirit, we are freed from the self, free from self-righteousness, self-glory, and self-consciousness.
The self is put aside automatically when we are in our spirit. Many times we are self-conscious; we care so much for the self, are introspective, and want to improve ourselves.
But when we exercise our spirit, we’re free from any self-consciousness, and we’re delivered from the self.
The way to deny the self is not to try to put it aside and not live in the self but to exercise our spirit and live in the mingled spirit.
Whenever we turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit, we touch the Body of Christ, for the Body is in our spirit (Eph. 1:17; 2:22; 3:5, 16; 4:23; 5:18; 6:18).
Our human spirit is crucial in the fulfilment of God’s economy; when we exercise our spirit and remain in our spirit, we touch the Body of Christ, because the Body is in our spirit.
Our spirit is the dwelling place of God, and the church is also the dwelling place of God; God’s dwelling place is our spirit and the church, and when we’re in our spirit, we’re in the church as the Body of Christ.
When we are in our spirit, we overcome the world, we cannot sin, the evil one cannot touch us, and we are guarded from idols (1 John 5:4, 18-19, 21; John 14:30).
What is begotten of God in us is our spirit; our spirit overcomes the world.
When we are in our spirit, we overcome the world.
When we are in our spirit, the evil one cannot touch us. Our spirit needs to be the central government in our being.
When we are in pir spirit, the enemy has no way in us, for the Lord in our spirit defeats the enemy and in Him the enemy has nothing.
May we remain in our spirit today. May we do all things in our spirit. May we be one with the Lord in our spirit today.
Lord Jesus, show us that the strategic and crucial point of God’s economy is the divine Spirit dwelling in our human spirit! Amen, Lord, impress us with the fact that the strategic point of Your economy is the mingled spirit – the divine Spirit mingled with our spirit. We exercise our spirit to contact You. We exercise to set our mind on our spirit. Amen, Lord, we want to live and do everything according to the Spirit by exercising our spirit. Hallelujah, we are joined to the Lord as one spirit, and we can live, do things, and act in our spirit, where the Lord as the Spirit dwells! Amen, Lord, we turn to our spirit and we exercise our spirit to touch You and also to know the Body of Christ. We praise You for our mingled spirit. We want to care for our spirit and be in our spirit. Amen, Lord in our spirit we overcome the world and we cannot sin, for our spirit overcomes the evil one and our spirit cannot sin! We want to be in our spirit, for in our spirit the evil one cannot touch us and we are guarded from idols!
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 the brothers in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1979, vol. 1, “Life Messages, Volume 2,” pp. 392-393, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Being a Vessel unto Honor, a Fully Equipped Man of God, by being Empowered in the Grace which is in Christ Jesus to Fully Accomplish our Ministry in the Unique Ministry of God’s Economy (2024 April ITERO), week 1, Living in the Reality of God’s Eternal Economy for Its Fulfillment by Building Up a Habit of Exercising Our Spirit, Fanning Our God-given Spirit into Flame.
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– Walking according to the spirit, a portion from, The Flesh and the Spirit, Chapter 2, by Witness Lee.
– Living in the Mingled Spirit, The Secret of the Christian Life, via, Holding to Truth in Love.
– The Mingled Spirit in Ephesians— The Secret of Experiencing Christ for the Building Up and Reality of the Body of Christ, article by Ed Marks in, Affirmation and Critique.
– Walk by the Spirit, not by the flesh, radio broadcast 27 in, Life-study on Radio on Galatians.
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– O Lord, Thou art the Spirit now / Who in my spirit makes His home; / He mingles with my spirit too, / And both one spirit thus become. / Lord, teach me how to exercise / My spirit now to contact Thee, / That in Thy Spirit I may walk / And live by Thy reality. (Hymns #493 stanzas 4-5)
– Exercise the spirit! / Human thought reject; / Meet with one another, / Body life respect. / Exercise the spirit! / All the forms forsake; / Share with one another, / Each of Christ partake. / Exercise the spirit! / Natural sense renounce; / Serve with one another, / Christ the Lord announce. (Hymns #866 stanzas 1-3)
– Our spirit we must exercise / To take the Word most inwardly, / And then to give the Spirit forth; / The two as one with us should be. / Lord, may Thy Word in me become / The Spirit as my life supply, / And may Thy Spirit in Thy Word / My true expression be thereby. (Hymns #815 stanza 6-7)
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Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1979, vol. 1, “Life Messages, Volume 2,” pp. 392-393
Dear brother, care for your spirit!
Oh, what an encouraging and enlightening word we had today in our morning revival!
What is the central government in our being?
The Triune God is in us – He’s mingled as the Spirit with our spirit, but we may not allow Him to live in us or govern us.
We may allow our emotions, our mind, our quick temper, or our opinions to govern us.
May we keep turning to our spirit until we live in spirit and the Lord has control over our being.
If we do not watch and pray, we will miss the mark of God’s economy—Christ as the Spirit dwelling in our spirit…
It is only by turning to our spirit that we can walk and have our being according to Christ.
In our personal walk, we need to watch and pray, and when we are with others, we need to live in our spirit by caring for the sense of life in our spirit. To walk according to our spirit may be considered the consummate charge in the Scriptures to the believers and only continual prayer keeps us in our spirit.
Hallelujah!
I like that even in the smallest things I maintain communion with the spirit.
We all need to repent of not being in our spirit as often as we should.
If we don’t watch & pray concerning our inner being, we will miss the mark of God’s economy— the Spirit dwelling in our spirit. God is only able to control & constrain us when we are in our spirit.
How we need to be in our mingled spirit and be saved from our natural thoughts, our opinions, our hasty speaking and our pride.
May we yield to the Lord’s desire to bring us under His control in big & small things…
Praise the Lord! 😃🙌🙋🏼
Amen, dear brother!
Only continual prayer keeps us in our spirit !🙌😃🙏
https://youtu.be/4HmczLCTyVQ
The mark of God’s economy in the divine Spirit mingled with our spirit to be one spirit.
The only way to fulfill God’s economy is to be in and walk according to our mingled Spirit.
It is by such a spirit that the central government of God can control us, but this can only happen if we pray unceasingly.
As soon as we cease praying we become free to exercise our mind or emotions, being free to express our thoughts and opinions.
07/24/24 Living in the Reality of God’s Eternal Economy for Its Fulfillment by Building Up a Habit of Exercising Our Spirit, Fanning Our God-given Spirit into Flame (Week 1, Day 3)
Genesis 2:7 reads, “Jehovah God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.” This verse indicates that man has three parts. His physical part was made from the dust of the ground. Then, the breath of life that was breathed into him became his spirit. When the body and the spirit came together, there was the soul. The body is for man’s survival. The spirit is for him to contact God. The soul is for man’s self-expression. Of these three, the most important is the spirit, which came from the breath of life.
Of the three parts of man, God’s intention for man is that man may receive God, contain God, and be one with God in his human spirit so that His regenerated spirit may become the central government and most prominent part of his tripartite being. God wants man to have his spirit be the controlling part over his soul and his body.
But sadly, Satan tempted the first man, Adam, to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, representing Satan, instead of the Tree of Life, representing God (Gen 3:6). Because of this, man fell into sin. Satan, as sin, then dwells in man’s body, making his body the flesh, body with sin (Gen 6:12). From that time on, the body of sin, the flesh, of man has become the controlling part of man. Since then, the flesh controls man soul, even corrupting it to become the self, the soul with sin.
Everything that man does is then governed by the self and centered on the self. When the fallen man speaks or does things, he does it out of himself, by himself, and for himself. He truly has become self-centered.
In order to bring man back to God’s original intention, God accomplished redemption to wash away man’s sin, and much more, He became the Life-giving Spirit to impart Himself as life into man’s spirit in order to reinforce man’s spirit to become the ruling part of his being again.
First Corinthians 6:17 says, “But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” When we were regenerated, we received the Lord as the Spirit into our spirit, that is, our human spirit is then joined to the divine Spirit of the Lord, making us one spirit. This one spirit is known as the mingled spirit.
What is it like to let the spirit be our central government? It is to restrict our mind, emotion, and will from being ruled by the sin in the flesh. It is to allow our mingled spirit to control every part of our being. Whatever we do or speak will now be according to our mingled spirit. In this way, God can now have His way in us in order to accomplish His will, His economy.
Second Corinthians 3:16 says, “But whenever their heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.” Then, Romans 8:6 also says, “For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.” Our heart is made up of our mind, emotion, will, and conscience. Although, as believers in Christ, we already have the Spirit of God in our regenerated spirit, that is, our mingled spirit, there is still the need for us to switch ourselves into the Lord by turning our heart through the setting of our mind into our mingled spirit before the Spirit can have His way from our spirit into our soul.
God wants to bring us under His strict control, through our spirit, in big things and in small things, even in our words. But in our normal condition, our soul is always entangled with our flesh. The flesh continually influences our soul to move according to the self. Only when we turn our mind into our mingled spirit can we have access to our reinforced spirit to be able to regain control of our soul, that is, our thoughts, our feelings, and our ways. Then, everything we say or do will be according to the Spirit.
God’s intention for us is, not to be a fleshly man (a man controlled by his flesh), nor a soulish or selfish man (a man ruled by his self), but a spiritual man (a man ruled and controlled by his mingled spirit) in order for God to carry out His goal in us.
[Excerpt from HWMR-Wk. 1 Day 3]
If we do not watch and pray, we will miss the mark of God’s economy— Christ as the Spirit dwelling in our spirit…It is only by turning to our spirit that we can walk and have our being according to Christ.
The great way to fulfill God’s economy is for us to live and do everything according to the Spirit by exercising our spirit (Job 10:13; Eph. 3:9; Rom. 8:4; Gal. 5:25).📖🙏🏼💖
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1 John 4:3, footnote 1 on, “everything”, Recovery Version Bible
Aaaaaamen Lord than You for our spirit mingled with Your Spirit!
Further Reading: CWWL, 1978, vol. 1, “The Experience of Christ,” chs. 10, 23; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” ch. 1
Amen. Lord govern us through our mingled spirit!
Yes, we need to deny our soul and not live by our soul but allow our spirit, that, our regenerated spirit, which is occupied and energized by the Spirit of God, to dominate our entire being.
It is only by turning to our spirit that we can walk and have our being according to Christ. This can be true by watching and praying unceasingly.
Praise our faithful Lord for His mercy upon us all the time.
Galatians 5:22 & 23 shows us that self-control is actually a fruit of the spirit. And this is our challenge; to control our soul or “self” by maintaining our spirit. Continuous prayer sounds logical, but how do we practice that? I would love to hear testimonies from any saints who believe they have attained that, even temporarily. How is this accomplished practically? How to overcome the obvious challenges to this.
Maybe we should all seriously pray, then practice, take notes and circle back to compare our results. Staying in the Spirit is key, but probably the biggest challenge to any saint. Oh Lord Jesus. Give us your practical instruction in this. Have mercy on your body that we may find our way to your love, joy and peace in every thing.
Amen saints. In Him.
Amen Lord keep us in our spirit