The Lord today wants to gain those who are of the race of the overcomers; we need to exercise our spirit of faith to declare that we belong to the race of the overcomers as we remain under God’s dispensing and enjoy His blessing to reign in life today.
In the last book of the Bible, the book of Revelation, God is calling the overcomers, those who reign in life and enjoy the constant dispensing of the Triune God into them for their enjoyment; let God bless you to make you an overcomer today!
God’s intention with us, the men created in His image and according to His likeness, is that we would be regenerated with His life to become a royal priesthood, a kingdom of priests, who serve God, express God, and represent God.
As believers in Christ, we need to advance in our enjoyment and experience of Christ so that we reach the level of a king in our Christian life; we need to reign in life with Christ and through Christ.
We need to enjoy Christ more and more each day, and we need to experience Him to the extent that grace reigns in us and we reign in life in Christ and through Christ.
The life that is within us, the divine life we received through regeneration, has to increase in us and spread into all our being until everyone else around us will see it being manifested in us.
Our Christ is unlimited; He is all-inclusive and vast, and we need to advance in our enjoyment of Christ until we reach the kingship level.
Just as the kings in 1 and 2 Kings enjoyed the good land on the top level, so we today as kings and priests need to enjoy Christ on the top level.
This means that we need to daily set aside time to spend with the Lord and just enjoy Him.
We need to send our roots deep down into Him as the rich soil of the good land, and we need to absorb His riches.
Every morning we need to consecrate ourselves to the Lord afresh, just as the priests put wood on the altar.
Everything we have and are needs to be consecrated to God on the altar, and the fire on the altar must not go out.
It is a huge responsibility for us all to give ourselves to the Lord and let Him as the fire burn in us.
He is the reality of all the offerings, and we can take Him as our sin offering for our sinful nature, as the trespass offering for the sins we commit, and as the peace offering for our peace and fellowship with God.
May we maintain the fire burning in us, and may we bring what we have enjoyed and experienced of Christ to others to prophesy, speak for God, speak forth God, and speak God into others.
We first take root downward by spending time with the Lord to be infused with Him, and then we minister Christ to others by our speaking to them and being with them. Amen!
In His complete salvation, God wants to save us in the life of Christ to the extent that we reign in life by the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness.
May we be the top enjoyers of this abundance of grace today!
We Declare by Exercising our Spirit of Faith that we Belong to the Race of the Overcomers!
Revelation – the last book of the Bible – is a book concerning the overcomers. In chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation, the Lord gives a sevenfold call to us, His believers, to be His overcomers (Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21).
He calls us to be those who conquer all the satanic chaos (cf. Col. 1:17b, 18b, 10) and triumph in the divine economy (Rom. 8:37; 2 Cor. 2:14).
From God’s viewpoint, there are four major races of people: the race of Adam (the created race), the race of Abraham according to the flesh (Gen. 13:16), the race of Abraham according to the Spirit (15:5; Gal. 3:7, 29), and the race of the overcomers (Rev. 2:7, 11, 26).
In the first ten and a half chapters of Genesis, we see the created race, of which Adam was the head.
After that, God called another group of people starting with Abraham; all of Abraham’s descendants according to the flesh are part of the called race of Abraham according to the flesh.
The remainder of the Old Testament is a record of the history of God’s called race, the descendants of Abraham according to the flesh.
When we come to the New Testament we see a shift to another group of people, the church.
Now the descendants of Abraham are not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
All the believers in Christ, all the genuine Christians throughout history, are the spiritual descendants of Abraham (Gal. 3:7, 29).
Christ came as the descendant of Abraham, the seed of Abraham, and all those who believe into Him are born of God and, spiritually speaking, become part of the seed of Abraham.
Christ came as the promised seed of Abraham and, through His death and resurrection, became the transfigured seed of Abraham, the life-giving Spirit.
All those who believe into the Lord Jesus become part of the race of Abraham according to the Spirit.
The physical descendants of Abraham are like the sand on the seashore, and the spiritual descendants of Abraham are like the stars in the heaven.
Regretfully, however, most of the descendants of Abraham according to the Spirit have failed God. Therefore, God chose another group of people, the overcomers.
We see this in Rev. 2-3, where the Lord Jesus as the High Priest is walking among the golden lampstands and, in His speaking to the seven churches, He calls “to him who overcomes” (Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21).
He has a sevenfold call for those who overcome all the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy.
The book of Revelation is a book on the overcomers; the overcoming race brings in success to God for His economy.
On one hand, Christ is our way (John 14:6); He is our way to God and into God.
On the other hand, without the overcomers, the Lord has no way to return. He needs the overcomers, for they pave the way and become the way for the Lord to return.
Therefore, there are four main races on this earth: the Adamic race, the Abrahamic race according to the flesh, the Abrahamic race according to the Spirit, and the race of the overcomers.
From deep within His heart, Christ would tell the overcomers that they are His way, for the overcomers are the very way for Christ to come back and bring in the kingdom of God (Rev. 19:7-9; Psa. 45:13-14).
We were born in the Adamic race and were regenerated to be in the Abrahamic race according to the Spirit, but we need to answer the Lord’s call to be His overcomers today.
May we exercise our spirit of faith to declare that we belong to the race of the overcomers.
May we forget about the “politically correct” things today and put aside all the problems and issues in society, and may we simply answer the Lord’s call to gain the overcomers!
We are not only men – we are Christians, those of the race of Abraham according to the Spirit.
As Christians, we need to see that God needs to gain those of the race of the overcomers, who answer the Lord’s call and overcome anything of the current and present satanic chaos to triumph in the divine economy.
May we exercise our spirit of faith to declare boldly that we belong to the race of the overcomers, one with the Lord and one with those who are regenerated by Him, to fulfil God’s purpose on earth today!
Lord Jesus, we exercise our spirit of faith to declare that we belong to the race of the overcomers. Hallelujah, we have been regenerated with God’s life and nature to be part of the race of Abraham according to the Spirit. Thank You, dear Lord, for making us sons of God, part of the called race by faith! We open to You, Lord, and we answer Your call: make us Your overcomers! We choose You, Lord, and we choose to be one with You for the fulfilment of Your purpose. Make us those who overcome all the satanic chaos and triumph in Your divine economy. Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit of faith and we stand one with You to declare that we are part of the race of the overcomers, the race that You need today for You to return! We take You as our way to contact God and we want to be Your way for You to return!
Let God Bless you to make you an Overcomer Today to Reign in Life and be under His Dispensing!
As we live in the age of grace, realizing that there are four main races in human history, may we be those who answer the Lord’s call to be His overcomers today.
The New Testament age, the age we live in, is approaching two thousand years of history.
The Adamic race has been for two thousand years, the Abrahamic race according to the flesh has been for two thousand years, and the Abrahamic race according to the Spirit has been here for almost two thousand years.
Today the Lord needs the race of the overcomers, those who conquer all the satanic chaos and triumph in His divine economy.
May we let God bless us to make us an overcomer today, living a life that is the life to reign.
This unique blessing is the eternal blessing of the Triune God dispensing Himself into us for our enjoyment (Num. 6:22-27; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 1:3; Gal. 3:14).
He wants to bless His people with Himself; He desires to dispense Himself into us, His believers, for us to be His overcomers in this age.
His focus is uniquely on the overcomers, those of the race of the overcomers who reign in life.
And we can overcome simply by being under His divine dispensing in a normal way every day, receiving the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness to reign in life through Christ (Rom. 5:10, 17, 21).
May we enjoy the Lord’s blessing today, and may we even ask Him to bless us with Himself until we overcome.
We can tell the Lord that He would bless us with the love of God, the grace of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 13:14).
We can simply ask Him to bless us and keep us, to make His face shine upon us and be gracious to us, and to lift up His countenance upon us and give us peace (Num. 6:22-27).
He wants to bless us and bless us and bless us again with Himself.
May we open to Him, enjoy Him, and partake of His blessing by remaining under the divine dispensing in our daily life.
As we enjoy the Lord and receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, we become part of the race of the overcomers, those who overcome by reigning in life with Christ today.
We can overcome because greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world.
We can overcome because we are filled with Christ and He as grace reigns in us; when grace reigns in us, we reign in life.
We take Christ as our way, our life, and our everything, and He will make us His way for Him to return and bring in His sweet and wonderful kingdom.
If we look around us we see the trouble caused by Satan; he is doing his best to make the satanic chaos and usurp all men through his world system.
But praise the Lord, we can be the particular group of people today who enjoy God’s blessing and are produced to be the overcomers, those reigning in life over sin, death, Satan, the flesh, and the world.
We can give ourselves to be one with the Lord to conquer all the destructive chaos and triumph in the Lord’s unique constructive economy.
The Adamic race failed God, the Abrahamic race according to the flesh failed God, and the Abrahamic race according to the Spirit as a whole also failed God.
He is now producing the overcomers, the race of the overcomers, who will afford Him the cooperation He needs for Him to return and bring in His kingdom.
May we be those who allow Him to bless us with His divine dispensing daily until we are produced as His overcomers on the earth!
Lord Jesus, we want to let You bless us to make us an overcomer today who reigns in life through Christ over Satan, sin, the world, the flesh, and death! Amen, Lord, keep us under Your divine dispensing today. Dispense Yourself into us for our enjoyment today. May grace reign in us until we reign in life through the One, Christ Jesus. May the grace of Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us. Lord, bless us and keep us. Make You make Your face shine upon us and be gracious to us. Lift up your countenance upon us, Lord, and give us peace. Keep us enjoying the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity until we reign in life! Amen, Lord Jesus, make us part of the race of the overcomers who afford You the cooperation You need for You to return!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ed Marks in the message, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 3, “The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation,” pp. 245-254, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Kings (2022 summer training), week 12, entitled, Living an Overcoming Life by Reigning in Life to Become the New Jerusalem as the City of Life.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Will you be an overcomer? / Christ is calling now! / Will you then be such a follower, / Though you know not how? / Will you be an overcomer? / Will you make this choice? / Christ is calling, Christ is calling, / Listen to His voice! (Hymns #894 stanza 1 and chorus)
– All the Christian overcomers / Shall with Christ in glory reign, / And the remnant saved of Israel / Then God’s priesthood shall obtain. / As God’s people shall the nations / ’Neath their rule and teaching be, / And a glorious restoration / All creation then shall see. (Hymns #946 stanza 4)
– Within God’s sovereign kingdom / His Christ is magnified; / When Christ in life is reigning, / The Father’s glorified. / When God is in dominion, / All things are truly blessed; / When Christ for God is reigning. / God’s glory is expressed. (Hymns #941 stanza 5)
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The New Testament age is approaching two thousand years of history… There have been two thousand years for the Adamic race, two thousand years for the Abrahamic race according to the flesh, and almost two thousand years for the Abrahamic race according to the Spirit What the Lord needs is the race of overcomers to conquer all the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy. The book of Revelation is a book on the overcomers… The overcoming race brings in the success to God for His economy. We need to consider where we are today… We may say that we are in the New Testament, but this in itself is not adequate. We must be in the last nineteen chapters of the Bible, from Revelation 4 through 22, from the throne to the New Jerusalem,… those who belong to the overcoming race. Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 3, “The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation,” pp. 245-247
The Lord Jesus is our way into God, but He needs the overcomers to be the way for Him to return to the earth to bring in His kingdom.
May we exercise our spirit of faith to declare that we belong to the race of the overcomers today!
May we let God bless us and make us an overcomer today, those who reign in life and overcome the satanic chaos to triumph in the divine economy!
We need to see God’s need today – the need for the race of overcomers those in the churches (“golden lampstands”) who conquer the destructive, Satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy.
We should declare in faith that we who are the spiritual descendants of Abraham are overcomers, those who are with Christ as our way to bring Him back! Amen!
He and we are the way for the Lord to return! Lord makes us Your overcomers in this age to bring You back!
Brother the Lord is calling for the overcomers as the new creation to come in to deal witn his enemy Satan and his old creation to deal with all the chaos going on in the earth and to bring him back
we need to be those who exercise our faith and declare that we are the race of the overcomers and cooperate with the Lord as the overcoming one in us to help us overcome and reign in life on the one hand we are relying on the Lord to overcome and the Lord is relying on the overcomers to fulfill his economy
Rev. 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
We need to consider where we are today.
We must be those who belong to the overcoming race; those who are in the final 19 chapters of the Bible.
Without the overcomers, Christ has no way to come back. If not us, then who?
The Lord needs a group of people on earth today who will conquer all the satanic chaos and triumph in His economy.
May we have an ear to hear and give ourselves to live & walk in and by the Spirit…Amen.
We belong to the race of overcomers
Amen! Lord we take You as our way! But You need overcomers to be Your Way for You to return! Lord gain a race of overcomers who will pace the way for You to return!! Lord Jesus make us such ones!!!
Yes brother! He is our way to God and as overcomers we are His way to come for His second coming.
Amen Lord grow a little bit more and make us your overcomers
Amen. I enjoyed that
Rev. 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
Rev. 19:7 Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.
Gal. 3:7, 29 Know then that they who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham. v.29 And if you are of Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to promise.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.
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“The Bible is a book concerning God with man. In between God and man there is a third party, Satan. Satan always makes trouble, and all the trouble is the chaos. The Lord needs a [particular] group of people, the overcomers, who will be one with Him to conquer all the destructive chaos and triumph in His unique constructive economy. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 3, “The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation,” p. 245)
“… God shifted from the Adamic race to the Abrahamic race…”
“… He shifted from Abraham’s descendants according to the flesh to Abraham’s descendants according to the Spirit…All the believers in Christ, regardless of their race, are the spiritual descendants of Abraham (Gal. 3:7, 29). Regretfully, however, most of the spiritual descendants of Abraham also fail God. Then to whom can God go in order to carry out His purpose?”.
“At the beginning of the last book of the Bible, the Lord Jesus… gives a call to another group of people, the overcomers,…“to him who overcomes”…(Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21). This is a sevenfold call to us, His believers, the spiritual descendants of our great father, Abraham…The overcomers are the fourth race”.
“What the Lord needs is the race of overcomers to conquer all the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy”.
“The book of Revelation is a book on the overcomers…The overcoming race brings in the success to God for His economy. We need to consider where we are today…We must be in the last nineteen chapters of the Bible, from Revelation 4 through 22, from the throne to the New Jerusalem,…those who belong to the overcoming race”.
“According to God’s economy, there are only four races on this earth… We should declare by faith that we belong to the race of the overcomers”.
“The book of Revelation shows us that without the overcomers Christ has no way to come back. We know that Christ is our way (John 14:6a). But from deep within His heart, Christ would tell us that the overcomers are His way. Without Christ we do not have a way, but today without the overcomers Christ has no way. The overcomers are the very way for Christ to come back”.
(CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 3, “The Satanic Chaos in the Old Creation and the Divine Economy for the New Creation,” pp. 245-247, 254)
Oh Lord Jesus, I am becoming your overcomer, me and my family belong to this race. There is no other race in our family. We’re not Latinos, Hispanic, Native American. We are OVERCOMERS, even some, don’t even realize about it yet.
Satan interferes all the time with our interaction with the Lord. Remember, his meetings are never dismissed, he works 24/7. Let’s not open the door for satan through our own self.
Once, I heard a psychologist talking about the chaos in the office of many small business owners. He said that the chaos around them is the reflection of their brains.
Satan creates chaos in our minds and that, can be reflected to the way we live. Instead being a testimony of our Lord and reflect Him, we become testimony of satan. Our bad habits, our idols (a job, a hobby, and addiction {food, TV, shopping, lying}, become just a testimony of satan if we cannot overcome them.
He can, and will deal with our temper, impatience or irritability, BUT He hates hypocrisy. We can’t live 2 lives if we are in the Lord.
The Lord 7 times says in His word, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches”. The question is, can I, do I want to hear His voice?
To become His overcomers, we need to judge our own self constantly in order to reach His grace, His mercies, and His strength TO OVERCOME what ever satan is using to keep us deaf to His voice.
When the serving ones ask us not to prophecy for more than 3 min, do we hear it? Do we listen to it? If we are unable to listen and follow the leading of the serving ones who are here with us, how we are going to listen the voice of the One we can’t see? Little things like this are used by satan to cause division in the body, and if we are not aware of it, if we ignore it, if we don’t pray for it, then how, as unity, we can become His overcomers?
The word says, if we cannot be faithful in little things, we will not be able to be faithful in big things.
Let’s overcome our own self. During the week we need Christ to deal with our flesh, we need to let Him shine upon each of us to show us all our flaws and our shorts and let Him to transform us, so we become those finish stones ready to be placed, silently and quietly, in the Spiritual building we are all together building when we meet every Lord’s Day.
How we will be a strong building if one of the pillars is poison by satan because of not listening the voice of the King of Kings?
As the seed of Abraham, we need to carry on the fulfillment of God’s economy. He is calling us to the ones who are capable, willing, and strong enough to overcome our own flesh.
We will be the New Jerusalem descending from heaven, the overcomers with white robes that were washed in His blood.
We are the race of overcomers that our Lord needs to, “… conquer all the satanic chaos and triumph in the divine economy”.
In our present condition, we can’t bring our Lord back. Gossiping, ego, personal shining, and competition for leadership are present in many of our localities.
Forget about “other Christians”, let’s look inside the house, let’s pray for our localities and all the serving ones; let’s place our own house in order BEFORE we talk about “other Christians”.
When we gather in genuine unity, love, and care for each other in the Body, then we can be ready to bring Him back. He cannot comeback without the race of overcomers, and we are that race, so let’s honor and work hard to kill our own self and let Him shine through the corporate expression. Amen!
2 Cor. 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Dear brother Hallelujah Jesus is the way John 14:6.
Though He needs us to be His overcomers so that He may have a way through us. Therefore for we need to overcome that we may eat the tree of life Rev 2:7.
As we eat Christ as the tree of life, we are eating Him as the way.
Then we become one with Him and become the way!
Amen. “We should declare by faith that we belong to the race of the Overcomers so that Christ will come back.”
Amen, May we let God bless us to make us an overcomer today, living a life that is the life to reign.
This unique blessing is the eternal blessing of the Triune God dispensing Himself into us for our enjoyment (Num. 6:22-27; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 1:3; Gal. 3:14).