Ten Ways to Labour on Christ as our Good Land and be the Lord’s Overcomers Today

If we want to be overcomers, we need to labour on Christ as our good land and gain Christ as our enjoyment; in this article, we want to see ten ways to labour on Christ in our daily life to gain Christ as our enjoyment and be the Lord’s overcomers.

May the Lord enlighten us to see how to live a life in God’s eyes that will enable us to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ typified by the good land.

Christ has been allotted to us to be our portion; God the Father qualified us through the redemption of Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit to enjoy an allotted portion of Christ with the saints.

Every believer in Christ is qualified by God to enjoy Christ not only personally but also corporately.

On one hand, we need to personally and individually enjoy and experience Christ, and we need to obtain something of Christ in our experience that is unique to us, personal to us, something that only we and the Lord have experienced and enjoyed together.

On the other hand, our personal enjoyment of Christ is for our corporate enjoyment of Christ, for our labouring upon Christ as the good land is for us to bring the top produce, the surplus, to the meetings of the church.

God’s desire today is the same as in the Old Testament: He wants His people to bring forth the riches of Christ that they have enjoyed and experienced and offer them to Him for His satisfaction.

Our God is hungry and thirsty; in the Old Testament He fed on the offerings, and He was satisfied with the smell of the burnt offerings and the peace offerings.

These offerings, however, are only a type of the real offering, which is Christ Himself. Christ came as the unique offering to offer Himself to God as a Lamb without spot and without blemish, One who is perfect in every respect.

On one hand, Christ offered Himself for our redemption, for as the Lamb of God, He takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29).

On the other hand, Christ offered Himself to God for His satisfaction, for God is satisfied with nothing and no one in this whole universe apart from Christ.

In Christ, God is well-pleased; He is satisfied with this wonderful One who lived a life for the full satisfaction of the Father.

This One, this all-inclusive Christ who is rich beyond measure and so enjoyable for us daily, needs to become our experience and enjoyment so that He may be wrought into us to become our very constitution.

Then, when we come together with the saints, we have something of Christ to offer to God for His satisfaction and to the saints for their supply. Amen!

Ten Ways to Labour on Christ as our Good Land and be the Lord’s Overcomers Today

If we are diligent to labour on the all-inclusive Christ as our good land, we will be the Lord’s overcomers today.

If we want to be overcomers, we need to labour on Christ as our good land and gain Him as our enjoyment.

We may think that to be an overcomer is something unattainable; such a thought is from the enemy and should be rejected.

We shouldn’t think that to be an overcomer is too high and impossible to reach; rather, we need to realize that an overcomer is a normal Christian according to God’s standard.

A Christian is one who daily, moment by moment, is labouring on Christ as the good land to gain Christ as his enjoyment.

May we reject the enemy’s doubts that we cannot be overcomers and may we learn to labour on Christ as our good land to gain Him as our enjoyment and be the Lord’s overcomers today.

Here are ten simple ways, ten practical ways, revealed in God’s word concerning how we can labour on Christ as our good land in our daily experience.

1. Consecrate Ourselves Every Morning to the Lord to Enjoy and Experience Him

Our day starts with the morning time; every morning we must come to the Lord and consecrate ourselves to Hmi sincerely not to do this or that but for the simple purpose of enjoying and experiencing Him.

As Paul did in Phil. 3:13-14, we need to have the realization that we did not lay hold but do one thing: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, we pursue toward the goal of enjoying Christ and experiencing Christ.

We labour on Christ as our good land by consecrating ourselves sincerely to the Lord to just enjoy Him.

As we do this, as we open to Him in the morning and give Him the ground in our being, we will have a rich and wonderful farm of Christ, for He will have a way to grow in us, transform us, and fill us with Himself.

In the morning we should not have merely a routine, a religious routine of reading this or doing that; we should contact the Lord in simplicity and sincerity and just enjoy Him.

The purpose of our consecration is that we would enjoy and experience the Christ of God.

We can tell the Lord,

Lord Jesus, we give ourselves to just enjoy You. Grant us to enjoy You throughout the day. We don’t want to do this or that and we don’t want to improve this or that aspect. We just want to enjoy You. We consecrate ourselves to You to just enjoy Christ and experience Christ throughout the day. We want to learn to apply You and experience you in every situation. We ask You, dear Lord, for the grace we need to enjoy you today. Show us how to till the ground, sow the seed, and water the plants of the Lord.

2. Spend Time with the Lord Every Day Privately and Secretly to have Intimate Fellowship with Him

Having a fresh consecration with the Lord in the morning is not enough; for us to labour on Christ as the good land, we need to seek to spend time with the Lord every day to have intimate fellowship with Him.

Every day we need to spend time to be with the Lord privately and secretly to have intimate fellowship with Him.

The Lord Jesus was never too busy to spend time with the Father; even after an outward success such as the feeding of thousands of people, He compelled His disciples to go and he sent the crowds away so that He would go up on the mountain privately to pray (Matt. 14:22-23).

We may be very busy during the day, doing so many things, but we still need to spend time with the Lord privately and secretly to have intimate fellowship with Him.

When we pray, we need to enter into our private room and shut the door, and we need to pray to our Father who is in secret, and the Father who sees in secret will repay us (Matt. 6:6).

This doesn’t mean we should seclude ourselves but rather that we need to find a time and a place to be undisturbed by others so that we speak to the Lord face to face, even as a man speaks to his companion (Exo. 33:11).

We need to be in the inner chamber of the King, with our Beloved, where we can touch Him, call on Him, and enjoy Him.

Lord Jesus, we want to spend time with You in private and in secret to have intimate fellowship with You. We are not too busy to set some time aside to just enjoy You. We give our time to You, dear Lord. We want to enter into our private room and pray to our Father who is in secret. Amen, Lord, teach us how to have personal and intimate times with You throughout the day so that we may labour on Christ as the good land. Make us Your overcomers, the normal Christians who take time to enjoy the Lord throughout the day!

3. Enjoy the Lord in the Word Early in the Morning to have a New Start Each Day

Early in the morning, we need to come to the Lord in His word and just enjoy Him so that we may have a new start of each day (Psa. 119:147-148).

Like the psalmist, we need to anticipate the dawn and seek the Lord, come to Him in His word and hope in His word.

We need to take a few verses from the Bible to muse on, chew on, and masticate by mixing them with our prayer, praising, singing, and crying, so that we may internalize God’s word.

We need to handle God’s word with our spirit in a living way to touch and enjoy the Lord.

In this way, we have a real morning revival, which will set the tone for that day.

May the Lord save us from the formality of “having morning revival” and bring us into a living touch with Him in our spirit and with His living word every day!

May we be saved from any routine or formula in our time with the Lord in the morning and just come to Him to enjoy Him in His word!

May we not miss the Lord in the morning but rather, may we spend time with Him in His word and muse on His word to be revived and refreshed!

Lord Jesus, we want to labour on Christ as the good land by enjoying the Lord early in the morning in the word. Save us from having a routine time with You. Save us from any formality or religious duty. Bring us into a living touch with You. Speak to us in the morning. We hope in Your word and we want to muse on Your word so that we may be truly revived. Amen, Lord, revive us morning by morning. Incline our ears to hear Your word. We do not want to merely read the Bible but exercise our spirit to touch Your word and be infused with Your essence!

4. Deal with Sins Thoroughly so that there’s Nothing between us and the Lord

As we spend time with the Lord in His word and under His shining, we will see our sins, trespasses, and failures.

The Lord is faithful to shine on us and expose things in us and in our behaviour that do not match what He is.

We labour on Christ as the good land by confessing our sins and dealing with our sins thoroughly so that there’s nothing between us and the Lord (1 John 1:7, 9).

We simply need to confess our sins, as the Lord shines on us, and the blood of Christ cleanses us from every sin and washes away our iniquities.

Then, we need to walk in the light and, as the Lord shines on us again, we need to confess.

Our confessing and dealing with sins is constant; we need to constantly deal with anything that the Lord exposes.

We want to have a clear sky between us and Him; the sky above our heads needs to be crystal clear so that we can see the One on the throne and be infused with all that He is (Ezek. 1:22, 26).

May we learn to deal with our sins in a thorough way so that there would be no obstacle between us and the Lord.

Lord Jesus, shine on us. Expose anything of darkness and any sin in us. We want to walk in the light. We confess our sins and trust in You, for You are faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Amen, Lord, cleanse us and wash us with Your precious blood. Keep us in the light today. We do not want to fight or disagree with the light; we simply say Amen, we have sinned, and we confess our sins! We trust in the effectiveness of Your blood that can wash us and remove our sins!

5. Maintain our Fellowship with the Lord by Living a Life of Prayer

Our fellowship with the Lord is not here and there, on and off, when we remember or when we’re reminded; it is a lifelong fellowship, a constant fellowship, which needs to be maintained.

Too many times we’re so distracted from the Lord and forget about Him until we’re reminded by someone or something; we need to learn to maintain our fellowship with the Lord.

We need to maintain our fellowship with the Lord moment by moment by living a life of prayer (2 Cor. 13:14; Phil. 4:6-7; Lam. 3:55-56; cf. Matt. 11:25-26).

When we are low, even in the lowest pit, we need to call on the name of the Lord, for He does not hide His ear at our breathing, our cry.

In nothing we should be anxious but in everything, we should bring our requests and make them known to God by prayer and petition.

When we’re anxious, we need to come to the Lord in prayer.

When we’re happy, we need to tell Him of our joy. When we’re low and down, we still need to pray.

We need to pray unceasingly and open to the Lord concerning all things.

The way to maintain our fellowship moment by moment is by praying unceasingly; in this way, we labour on Christ as the good land in our experience.

Lord Jesus, we want to maintain our fellowship with You moment by moment by living a life of prayer. Amen, Lord, we bring to You all our worries, anxious thoughts, and problems. We want to make all our requests known to God by prayer and petition with thanksgiving. Keep us contacting You throughout the day. Oh Lord, even when we’re so down and low, we still want to call on Your name! We want to live a life of prayer day by day so that we may constantly labour on Christ as the good land.

6. Redeem our Time and Spend our Energy to be Saturated with God’s Holy Word

Many times our excuse is that we don’t have time to read the Bible.

When we hear that we need to labour on Christ as the good land by being saturated and soaked with God’s holy word, we may say that our time is so limited, for we’re so busy with this and that. Oh, Lord!

The truth is that, though we may not have time to be soaked with God’s word, we are soaked with someone’s word; we may be soaked with TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram, and many words get into us – and we have time for this, but not that much time for the Lord.

For us to labour on Christ as the good land, we need to learn to redeem our time and spend our energy to be saturated and soaked with God’s holy word (2 Tim. 3:16-17; Col. 3:16).

We need to maintain our fellowship not with TikTok or Instagram but with the Lord.

When we spend our energy to be in God’s word and allow the word of Christ to dwell in us richly, we will be healed, nourished, enlightened, and filled with the Lord.

There’s much goodness, healing, richness, and supply in God’s word. We simply need to redeem the time, for the days are evil, and be under the Lord’s speaking in His word.

We are what we eat; if we eat and drink the endless stream and feed from social media, news, entertainment, etc, we will become just that.

But if we are diligent to labour on Christ as the good land by redeeming our time and spending our energy to be saturated with God’s holy word, we will become the same as He is.

Lord Jesus, we want to redeem our time and spend our energy to be saturated with God’s holy word. We do not want to give ourselves any more excuses that we don’t have time; we simply come to Your word to be infused with You. Amen, Lord, we place ourselves under the hearing of the faith today. Saturate us and soak us with Your holy word. We want to enjoy Your riches, Your healing, and Your supply as we come to You in Your word. May we all learn to reject the stream of what the world has to offer and simply be in Your word to be saturated and soaked with all that You are!

7. Redeem the Time to Be Filled in Spirit by Rejoicing Always, Praying Unceasingly, and Giving Thanks in Everything

A very enjoyable way for us to be overcomers today is redeeming the time to be filled in spirit by rejoicing always, praying unceasingly, and giving thanks in everything (Eph. 5:18; 1 Thes. 5:16-19).

This is God’s will for us in Christ Jesus, that we always rejoice, unceasingly pray, and in everything give thanks.

We may look around us and see that the whole world is going down the tube; in all these things we need to rejoice – not rejoice over what is happening, but rejoice in the Lord.

We need to pray unceasingly, bringing all things to the Lord in prayer and building up our prayer muscle.

And we need to thank the Lord in everything.

It is not easy for us to thank the Lord, for we may think that we thank Him for what He does for us; but in all things, even when it seems that He doesn’t do much for us and He doesn’t rescue us from our terrible situation, we still need to thank the Lord.

If we read the Gospels we see that, from time to time, the Lord Jesus just thanked the Father; there was nothing in His environment that changed to the better, but He still thanked the Father.

If we always rejoice, unceasingly pray, and in everything give thanks, we will not be grumbling, murmuring, and complaining but we will be full of the riches of Christ.

We will be filled with the Lord and we will even overflow with Him, for we are labouring on Christ as the good land daily.

Lord Jesus, we want to redeem the time by being filled in spirit day by day! Amen, Lord, we rejoice in You! You are our joy, and in You we’re filled with joy! Hallelujah, praise the Lord! We praise You, Lord, for all things. Thank You for being our life. Thank You for taking care of us. Thank You for being with us where we are. Amen, Lord, we want to always rejoice, unceasingly pray, and in everything give thanks! Oh, what a rich Christ we have! We praise You for all that You are to us. And we thank You, dear Lord, even when it seems that nothing is changing outwardly to the better. Thank You for all things.

8. Being Dominated, Governed, Directed, Moved, and Led by our Spirit

In order for us to experience the riches of Christ as the good land, we must be dominated, governed, directed, moved, and led by our spirit.

In 2 Cor. 2:13 Paul said that he was governed not by the welcoming situation in the environment nor the need that was before him but by the rest in his spirit.

We need to pay attention to our spirit. Our inner man is our spirit, our regenerated human spirit, where the Lord as the Spirit dwells and mingles Himself with us as one.

Our real person is not our soul with its desires, intentions, and thoughts but our inner man, our mingled spirit.

We need to live in the spirit, live by the spirit, and live according to the Spirit.

If we want to experience the riches of Christ and labour on Christ as the good land, we need to be governed by our spirit.

Our spirit needs to take the lead and direct us in our daily living.

We do not need to check with any outward list of regulations whether we should do this or say that; we simply need to check with our spirit and be in our spirit.

Lord Jesus, make our spirit strong today. Strengthen us into our inner man and make our inner man strong so that we may be governed and directed by our spirit. Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to contact You and to live in the spirit. We want to live by the spirit and walk according to the Spirit. Hallelujah, God in Christ as the Spirit is mingled with our spirit, and we have an inner man that is one with God! Oh Lord, we want to experience the riches of Christ as the good land by being dominated, governed, directed, moved, and led by our spirit!

9. Live in the Person, the Presence, the Face of Christ Daily

In order for us to experience the riches of Christ as the good land and thus be the Lord’s overcomers today, we need to live in the person of Christ, in the presence of Christ, even in the face of Christ (2 Cor. 2:10; 4:6-7; 3:16-18; 12:2).

We need to learn from the apostle Paul who not only forgave a brother for the sake of the church by being one with the Lord but even more, he was in the index of the Lord’s eyes and, because this is what the Lord did, he also did that.

On one hand, we want to have the Lord’s presence; on the other hand, we want to look into the Lord’s eyes to see what is His feeling concerning this and that.

In order for us to possess Christ as the all-inclusive land, we must be governed by the Lord’s person, His presence (Exo. 33:14).

Because Paul lived in the person of Christ, he experienced Christ as changelessness (2 Cor. 1:17-20), as meekness and gentleness (10:1), as truthfulness (11:10), as power (12:10; 13:4), as grace (v. 14), and as the One speaking in him (v. 3; cf. 2:17).

We need to live not only in the Lord’s presence but also in the index of the inward feelings and thoughts of Christ.

In a tender and deep way, we need to behold Him and look into His eyes in our spirit with our unveiled hearts so that we may see what He feels about this and about that.

As we look in the index of the Lord’s eyes, we will be infused with His thoughts and feelings, and we will be clear concerning what we should do.

We will behave not according to our thoughts or intentions but according to the Lord’s feelings.

We will not only act in gentleness but take Christ as our gentleness, and we will not only love others but love them with Christ as our love.

We need to labour on Christ as the good land more until this becomes our experience in our daily life.

We can open to the Lord in prayer and ask Him honestly and genuinely how should we live, behave, and have our being, and what should our attitude be toward this and that.

May we all learn in this matter and be before the Lord, telling Him,

Lord Jesus, we want to live in the person of Christ today. We turn our heart to You to behold You face to face. We just want to look into the index of Your eyes and be infused with You. Amen, Lord, we don’t want to do anything in ourselves, by ourselves, or according to our feelings and opinions. We want to live not only in Your presence but even more in your person, in the index of Your eyes. Keep our eyes fixed on You. May Your inward feelings and thoughts be infused into us as we behold You face to face. We want to enjoy and experience the riches of Christ as the good land by living in the face of Jesus Christ in our daily living!

10. Experience the Breaking and Constituting Work of the Spirit so that our Inner Being is Rebuilt with the Divine Trinity

We receive Christ as grace, the reality of the good land, through the breaking and constituting work of the Spirit, whereby our inner being is rebuilt with the Divine Trinity (2 Cor. 12:7-10; 13:14). Amen!

On the positive side, we live in the index of the Lord’s eyes and do everything in full oneness with Him.

On the negative side, there’s a breaking and constituting work going on in our being.

The old man, the natural man, is being consumed and put to death, and the new man is being renewed (2 Cor. 4:16).

As we take the Lord as grace day by day, our outer man is decaying and our inner man is being renewed.

The Lord is faithful to operate in our environment and through the things around us to tear down the natural man, break the outer man, and consume our natural being so that He may constitute Himself into us.

The Spirit operates both through the environment and in the innermost part of our being to break us and constitute us so that our inner being is rebuilt with the Divine Trinity.

Through the consuming work in our environment and the constituting work in our inner being, we possess Christ as the good land and we become the Lord’s overcomers.

This is to labour on Christ as the good land, and on our side, we simply need to not fight or resist the Spirit’s work of breaking and reconstituting.

May we open to the Lord concerning this matter and just let Him operate in us and around us as the Spirit to bring us into the full enjoyment and experience of Himself with all His riches day by day for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.

Lord Jesus, we want to receive You as grace through the breaking and constituting work of the Spirit. We open to You, Lord, and we allow You to operate in us and around us to break our outer man and consume it so that You may be constituted into our being. Save us from remaining whole. Save us from remaining natural. We take Your grace and apply You to our daily situations so that we may possess Christ as the good land. Amen, Lord, have Your way in our being today. May our inner being be rebuilt with the Divine Trinity.

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, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1967, vol. 2, “An Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit,” ch. 4, 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.
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• Hymns on this topic:
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  – God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all! / Oh, how we love within His presence to dwell! / In this light we enjoy a constant cleansing within— / From every sin! (Hymns #1197 stanza 1)
  – My heart is hungry, my spirit doth thirst; / I come to Thee, Lord, to seek Thy supply; / All that I need is none other but Thee, / Thou canst my hunger and thirst satisfy. / Feed me, Lord Jesus, give me to drink, / Fill all my hunger, quench all my thirst; / Flood me with joy, be the strength of my life, / Fill all my hunger, quench all my thirst. (Hymns #811 stanza 1 and chorus)