Trust in God and Come to God to Absorb His Riches and Flow Him as the Water of Life

Those who trust in God are like a tree planted by the water, growing by absorbing the riches of the water; we need to come to God just as we are and absorb His riches through prayer to receive the divine dispensing until there is a fountain of water gushing up into eternal life. Amen!

This week we have been enjoying the matter of the all-inclusive Christ as the good land, in particular, that our Christ is a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains.

The all-inclusive Christ is the good land, and we can enjoy the unsearchable riches of Christ by exercising our spirit to enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit.

Throughout the Bible there’s a line concerning the Triune God as water; from Genesis to Revelation we see that the Triune God flows out and is the river of living waters for man to drink and be satisfied for his enjoyment. Praise the Lord!

According to the type in Deut. 8, the water flows in valleys and in mountains.

There are valleys in our experience, and there are also some mountains; there may be more valleys than mountains, but it is in these valleys that the living water flows.

Thank the Lord, He has come in us to be the indwelling treasure in our earthen vessel, and it is by Himself as the divine source of the supply that we can live the Christian life.

The indwelling Christ is the divine source of the supply for our Christian life and the excellent power for us to live a crucified life (valleys) for the manifestation of the resurrection life (mountains).

Like Paul, we need to realize that daily we can live the resurrection life under the killing of the cross.

In a positive sense, Jesus is always killing all the negative things within us in order to heal and enliven us.

Death operates in us, for we are in many situations of death, and life operates in others.

May we be one with the Lord in His death even as we pass through situations of death and limitations so that we may live by the resurrection life.

As we go through things, both pleasant and unpleasant, we need to not forsake the Lord as the fountain of living waters.

May we be saved from forsaking God as the fountain of living waters; instead of forsaking Him and trying to hew out cisterns for ourselves to drink from, we need to return to Him and drink of Him as the living water.

We need to build up the habit of drawing water with rejoicing from the springs of salvation so that we may both drink and flow the water of life.

Daily we need to practice speaking to the Lord and for the Lord.

We need to praise the Lord and thank Him.

We need to call on the name of the Lord to enjoy His riches and to drink Him as the living water.

We need to always rejoice, unceasingly pray, and in everything give thanks; in this way, we drink the living water.

Trust in God and Come to God as we are to Contact God and Absorb His Riches in Prayer

According to God’s economy, the one who trusts in God is like a tree planted by the water, signifying God as the fountain of living waters (Jer. 17:7-8).

A tree grows beside a river by absorbing all the riches of the water. This is a picture of God’s economy, which is carried out by His divine dispensing.

We trust in God. We send our roots down in Christ, being like a tree transplanted beside water, sending our roots by a stream.

God is the fountain of living waters (Jer. 2:13), and we send our roots deep down in Him to enjoy Him and receive the divine dispensing.

When the tree sends its roots by a river, it receives the water with all the riches.

The tree grows with all these riches. As those who trust in God and come to Him to enjoy Him, we send our roots deep down in Him to receive and enjoy God’s dispensing (1 Cor. 3:6).

God is the Supplier and the supply; we enjoy the supply of the riches of the supplying God being dispensed into us as plants so that we may grow into God’s measure.

Eventually, we as plants grow one with God, and God grows in us.

God’s economy is carried out by means of His divine dispensing.

God is the living water to be dispensed into our being in order to become our constituent.

We all need to see the crucial significance of absorbing God as the living water so that we may be constituted with His element and essence.

In order for us to receive the divine dispensing, we as the trees must absorb God as the water (1 Cor. 3:6; Col. 2:7).

The riches of the supplying God dispensed into us as the trees constitute us with God’s divinity and cause us to grow into God’s measure (v. 19).

In this way, we and God become one, having the same element, essence, constitution, and appearance (Rev. 4:3; 21:11).

We absorb the riches of God through prayer. The meaning of prayer is for us to absorb God.

The more we come to God to contact Him, the more we will absorb Him, and the more we absorb Him, the more we will enjoy Him.

We need to come to God just as we are.

We don’t have to improve ourselves or better ourselves before coming to God; we simply need to come to God as we are.

Sometimes we are so low, so out of it, and so down, that we can only come to God as we are and be silent in His presence.

We may sigh and confess that we’re incompetent, weak, unable to rise, unpresentable, and thirsty.

We confess our weaknesses and sins, and we admit that we lack words for the gospel and are not inclined to fellowship with the saints.

We can be honest with the Lord, open our entire being to Him, and lay our inner condition before God.

As we confess before God that we’re short in every matter, we empty ourselves and absorb the riches of God.

May we come to God just as we are. May we give up any effort of trying to improve or change our condition and just come to God.

To pray is simply to come to God just as we are.

The more genuine we are before God, the better it is; the more we open concerning our condition, the better it is.

Even if we feel we’re weak, sad, confused, or speechless, we can still come to God.

God is everything to us, and our condition doesn’t bother Him.

He only wants us to contact Him and come close to Him.

He just wants us to come to Him as we are to contact Him and absorb His riches.

As long as we are before God, seeing His face and allowing Him to infuse us, everything is fine.

Even if we’re not presentable and very weak, God is power and He is presentable.

If we’re unable to rise up, He is rising up. We lack leading, but He is leading.

We may have no words, but He is the Word.

God doesn’t want us to improve ourselves or better ourselves before coming to Him; He wants us to come to Him as we are.

The more we come to God according to our condition, the better it is.

We don’t even have to say many things when we come to God; we just come to the Lord in prayer and open to Him to absorb His riches.

The Gentiles think that in the multiplicity of words, they are pleasing to God, but God looks at the heart.

When we come to Him as we are, not seeking to change or improve ourselves and not even seeking to utter many words but opening to Him, He is happy.

When we calmly, silently, and quietly come to the Lord, opening our inner condition to Him, God has a way of dispensing His riches into our being.

May we not care that much about our condition but care much more for coming to God to enjoy Him and drink Him as the fountain of living waters.

May we simply enter into God’s presence to contact Him by looking to the Lord, beholding the Lord, praising the Lord, giving thanks to the Lord, worshipping the Lord, and absorbing the Lord.

As we do this, we enjoy His riches and taste His sweetness, and we absorb His riches into our being.

If we spend even a little time to enter and remain in God’s presence and continue to absorb His riches throughout the day, we will receive light and life, and we will be strengthened within.

We will inwardly be peaceful, bring, strong, and empowered, and we will remain connected to the Lord as we minister the word to the saints (1 Pet. 4:10- 11; 2 Cor. 2:17; 13:3).

Thank the Lord that we can be genuine with the Lord, simply coming to Him as we are, opening our inward situation and condition, and absorbing His riches.

And as He tells us to seek His face, we can tell Him that we want to seek His face. Whatever God says to us, we say amen and repeat it in prayer to Him.

Lord Jesus, we come to You as we are. We just open to You. We lay our inner condition before You. We are so short and lacking. We come to You as we are, with the desire to contact You. Oh Lord, though we’re weak, confused, and sad, we still come to You. We bring our condition before You. We want to contact You and absorb Your riches. We want to enter into God’s presence to contact God by looking to You, beholding You, and praising You. We thank You, Lord, and we worship You. We want to absorb what You are. Keep us in Your presence. Be everything to us. Give Yourself to us as living water and as everything we need. Oh Lord, how much we need You! We don’t want to improve ourselves to please You; we simply want to come to You as we are so that You may dispense Yourself into us. We want to taste Your sweetness. We want to receive You as light and power so that we may be inwardly peaceful, bright, strong, and empowered. Keep us connected to You as we meet others so that we may minister You as life to others!

Drink the Living Water and Flowing out the Water of Life until the New Jerusalem

The second part of John 4:14 says that the water that the Lord gives us will become in us a fountain of water of life springing up into eternal life.

On one hand, we come to the Lord as we are to absorb His riches, and we drink Him as the living water.

On the other hand, this living water in us keeps flowing, and it flows out of us as many rivers of living water, and it also flows into eternal life. Hallelujah!

The flowing Triune God is into eternal life. The flowing Triune God – the Father is the fountain, the SOn is the spring, and the Spirit is the river.

The Father is the source of the river of life, the Son is the emergence of the fountain, and the Spirit is the flow of water of life.

The Triune God is flowing through the Father, the Son, and the Spirit into us, and out from our innermost being into others (2 Cor. 13:14; John 7:37-38). How wonderful!

We simply need to keep coming to the Lord as we are to drin Him as the living water, and He will flow into us, even flow into every part of our inner being.

Then, He will flow out of us into others to supply them with the living water, and He will flow with us into the eternal life, the New Jerusalem.

He flows out of eternity into time, even into our being, and He keeps flowing in us and out of us, flowing us all the way into the New Jerusalem.

The totality of the eternal life is the New Jerusalem.

The eternal life is the destination of the flowing Triune God. The New Jerusalem is the totality of the divine, eternal life.

The eternal life consummates in the New Jerusalem.

The flowing of the Triune God is into eternal life (John 4:14), and the New Jerusalem is the totality of the eternal life.

The word “into” means “issuing in” or “to become”.

This means that the flowing Triune God flows in us and with us into the New Jerusalem and this flow issues in the New Jerusalem for us to become the New Jerusalem.

The Father is the fountain, the Son is the spring, and the Spirit is the river flow into us and with us to become the New Jerusalem as the totality of the eternal life.

The Triune God flowed from eternity past in time, and He flows Himself into us and with us into the New Jerusalem.

As believers in Christ, we need to drink the Lord by coming to Him as we are, and as we drink Him, we will also flow Him out to others.

As we drink Him, He flows in us and with us to become the New Jerusalem as the totality of the eternal life.

May we let Him flow in us and become the many rivers of life in us, flowing out of us into many others.

As the fountain of life in us, it springs up and flows into eternal life, into the New Jerusalem! Hallelujah!

There is a fountain in us – the fountain of life, and this fountain is continually flowing until it will flow us into the New Jerusalem.

We do not go to the New Jerusalem; we flow into the New Jerusalem, for we are becoming the New Jerusalem.

Lord Jesus, keep us drinking of You as the fountain of living waters. Flow in and flow out. Flow into our inner being and flow as many rivers of water of life into others. Fill our inner being with the water of life. Flow in us and flow out of us! Hallelujah, God the Father as the fountain flows in the Son as the spring and as the Spirit as the river of water of life in our being! Amen, Lord, we open to Your living flow of water of life! We open and we drink of You! Flow us all the way into the New Jerusalem! Hallelujah, the Father as the fountain flows in Christ as the spring and as the Spirit as the river He flows in our being so that the Triune God may flow out of us into others as many rivers of living water! Praise the Lord, the water the Lord gives us becomes in us a fountain of water springing up and gushing up into eternal life! Hallelujah, we’re becoming the New Jerusalem by our drinking and flowing the living water!

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 James Lee in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1956, vol. 3, “The Meaning and Purpose of Prayer,” chs. 1-4, 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 4, entitled, The All-inclusive Christ as the Good Land—a Land of Waterbrooks, of Springs and of Fountains, Flowing Forth in Valleys and in Mountains.
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  – Lord, may Thy blood now cleanse me, / Wash all my sins away, / That with Thy Holy Spirit / Thou may anoint, I pray. / My service, I confess, Lord, / Is failure—full and weak; / The filling of Thy Spirit / To live for Thee I seek. / Oh, from myself deliver, / From all its misery; / I’d henceforth be forever / Completely filled with Thee. (Hymns #280 stanza 1 and chorus)