As we love the Lord, contact Him, and pray to Him, we automatically live Him according to the pattern of Christ described in the Gospels, and we’re shaped and conformed to the image of Christ; when we eat Christ, we live because of Him to live exactly the same way He lived, a God-man life by the divine life.
Lord Jesus, we come to You and we give ourselves to just love You. We love You, dear Lord Jesus! You are the most precious and wonderful One. We open to You. We want to pray to You, enjoy You, and contact You throughout the day so that we may spontaneously and automatically live Christ. Amen, Lord, we turn to You from all other things and we put ourselves aside. We do not want to live by our natural life; we choose to turn and enjoy You, even eat You so that we may live because of You! Amen, Lord Jesus, live in us today. May we live the life of a God-man for the reality of the Body of Christ so that You may gain Your corporate expression! Amen!
May the Lord have mercy on us and grant us to be unveiled and open to Him so that He may speak to us again concerning the matter of living a God-man life.
This is one of the most important things, yet this is our greatest lack today. We do not live the life of a God-man in a habitual way. We may know much; we may enjoy much, but our daily living may not express the Christ we enjoy and see.
We need to be like the apostle Paul, always pursuing the Lord, always seeking to know Him and experience Him, and always desiring to be gained by the Lord and to gain more of Christ.
No matter how advanced in the Lord we may be, no matter how much experience of Christ we have had in these last years, we still need to stretch forward to enjoy Christ, gain Christ, and experience Christ so that we may express Christ.
We are not merely Christians in a common way who live like the rest, yet trying to please God.
We are God-men, men who are born of God with His life and nature, and we are being perfected to be those who live the divine life by denying our natural life according to the model of the Lord Jesus as the first God-man.
He set up a pattern of living the life of a God-man; His living was fully pleasing to God and satisfied Him, and He told us to learn from Him.
We need to imitate Christ not by our natural life or effort but by the divine life in our spirit. Christ is our life.
We are joined to the Lord as one spirit. Our Christian life is a life in Christ and also a life of Christ in us. May we be those who receive the Lord’s mercy and grace to live Christ today.
As we Love the Lord, contact Him, pray to Him, and live in the Mingled Spirit, we learn Christ according to the Reality in Jesus by the Spirit of Reality and we live Christ
In Ephesians 4 we are told that we have learned Christ as the reality is in Jesus; what does it mean for us to learn Christ, and what do we need to learn from Christ? What is the reality in Jesus?
When the Lord came, He said that He is the way and the reality and the life (John 14:6). The reality in Jesus is the real situation of the life of Jesus as recorded in the four Gospels.
People today walk in the vanity of their mind, having a godless walk; however, in the godly life of Jesus there is reality, truth. He lived a life in which He did everything in God, with God, and for God, and God was in His living, and in all things He was one with God. This is reality.
We believers in Christ have learned Christ, for we were put into Christ by faith and baptism into Him, and now we need to live the same kind of life today.
As the Lord told us in Matthew 11:29, we need to learn from Him. The spiritual fact is that, by faith and baptism into Christ, God put us into Christ as the mold, and today we need to continually learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus.
In our experience, for us to learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus, that is, for us to live Christ, we need to love the Lord, contact Him, and pray to Him (Rom. 8:29).
As we love the Lord Jesus, turning our heart to Him to contact Him and enjoy Him, and we pray to Him, we automatically live Christ according to the mold, the form, the pattern described in the Gospels.
In this way, we are shaped, conformed to the image of the mold, that is, we are conformed to the image of Christ, and we learn Christ.
We need to be those who love the Lord with all of our heart and soul and mind and strength. We need to tell Him that we love Him many hundreds of times a day!
Loving the Lord will bring us into a deeper experience of Christ, for loving the Lord creates the right atmosphere for the Lord to come in and dispense what He is into us.
We love the Lord, we contact Him, and we pray to Him as we come to Him in His word, and we are spontaneously conformed to His image.
This is something that happens automatically; we don’t have to try or strive – we simply need to love the Lord and contact Him, and we live Christ, thus being conformed to His image.
As we do this and that during the day, we should contact the Lord and love Him. When we pray and contact the Lord, we activate the law of the Spirit of life in our spirit, and this automatic principle works in us to saturate us with what God is (Rom. 8:2).
We are simply freed from the law of sin and of death, and we live Christ.
When we love the Lord, contact Him, and pray to Him, we switch on the spontaneous power and automatic principle of the law of the Spirit of life, and the Lord operates in us, frees us from sin and death, saturates us with His life, and has a way to live in us.
When we live in the mingled spirit, we are learning Christ according to the reality in Jesus by the Spirit of reality (Gal. 6:17-18; Rom. 1:1, 9; Eph. 4:20-24; Phil. 2:5; Matt. 11:29; 1 Pet. 2:21).
As we practice contacting the Lord, loving Him, and praying to Him, we live in the mingled spirit, and we express Christ. We learn from Him as our model so that His biography becomes our history.
The way He lived while He was on the earth becomes the way we live, for we are one with Him.
The living of the Body of Christ as the new man should be exactly the same as the living of Jesus revealed in the four Gospels, and this is possible only when we live in the mingled spirit.
We copy Christ, we imitate Christ, by living in the mingled spirit so that we may learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus.
When we practice doing this, there will be the living of the Body of Christ as the new man, which will be exactly the same as the living of Jesus revealed in the Gospels. He will live in us.
We will express Him. He will shine through us, and we wil spontaneously be conformed to His image. This has nothing to do with our effort or trying; it has everything to do with contacting the Lord, loving Him, praying to Him, and living in the mingled spirit.
God in His economy intends that we all as His believers become a reproduction of Christ, the first God-man.
He obtains this initially when we repent and believe into the Lord, and He continues to gain this as we contact the Lord, love Him, pray to Him, and live in the mingled spirit, for we spontaneously live Christ and are conformed to His image in our daily living.
Lord Jesus, we love You. We love You and we open to You. We want to contact You throughout the day. We exercise our spirit to pray and contact You in all things and concerning all things. Amen, Lord Jesus, how much we love You! We turn our heart to You and we allow You to make Your home in our heart. Make us the same as You are in life, nature, expression, and function. May we automatically live Christ according to the pattern of Christ described in the Gospels! Shape us and conform us to Your image so that we may learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus! Lord Jesus, we want to live in the mingled spirit today so that we may learn Christ according to the reality in Jesus by the Spirit of reality! May Your biography become our history today. Live in us today. Gain a corporate living of the perfected God-men who express You by having the same kind of living that You had when You were on the earth! Amen, Lord Jesus, we love You, we open to You, we contact You, and we want to live in the mingled spirit so that we may live Christ for You to be expressed through us! Amen!
Christ Came to Live a God-man Life by the Divine Life: we Eat Christ and Live Because of Him to become a Universal Great Man the Same as He is!
Many Christians have wondered why did Jesus have to live thirty-three and a half years if He only came to accomplish redemption for us. What is the point of His human living on earth if He came only to redeem us?
We need to see that the purpose of God in sending the Lord Jesus to be a man was not only for Him to accomplish redemption but also so that, through His human living, He would live the life of a God-man to express God.
Christ came to live a God-man life by the divine life. Amen!
Now we as the followers of Jesus, the believers in Christ, eat Him and we live because of Him to become a great universal man who is exactly the same as He is (Lam. 3:22-24, 55-56; Rev. 2:4, 7; John 6:57, 63; Jer. 15:16; Eph. 6:17-18; Psa. 119:15).
The key is not our trying, our striving, or our perfecting ourselves to do this and that to express Christ; the key is eating Christ so that we may live because of Him.
It is only by eating Christ in His word that we can live the same kind of life as He did. As we eat the Lord in His word, we can live a God-man life by the divine life.
May we be those who find God’s words and eat them so that they become the joy and rejoicing of our heart. It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing, and the words the Lord speaks to us right now are spirit and are life.
Amen, when we find the words of God, when He speaks to us right now, we receive Spirit and life, and we live Christ.
The Lord Jesus lived a life in which He expressed God to the uttermost. He did not do things in and by Himself but in the Father and by the Father, the One who sent Him (John 5:19; 8:28).
God sent Christ to be a man and live a God-man life by the divine life. Now we follow Him by learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus, and we can live the same kind of life by eating Christ so that we may live because of Him.
When we eat Christ, partaking of Him in His word, we live because of Him. Our living is a because living; we live because of the Christ we eat. He lived on earth as a man, but He didn’t live by His human life but by God as His life.
As we eat the Lord, we spontaneously deny ourselves; we do not live by the natural life, and we take Christ as our life to live Christ. May we eat the Lord in His word by pray-reading His word.
May we mix the word of God with our spirit of faith being exercised through much prayerful consideration.
As His words are internalised in our being in a prayerful way, the Lord has a way to infuse what He is into us, and He can live in us.
It is only by eating the Lord in His word with much pray-reading that we can live because of Him, denying ourselves and living under the cross by the resurrection life.
We need to be inwardly energised and supplied with the Lord as our food. We need to daily make new discoveries in God’s word and take the word into us by means of all prayer and petition.
We need to masticate Jesus, that is, not only read the Bible and say a prayer but chew on God’s word, consider it inwardly, pray it, sing with it, speak it, and have much internal speaking to the Lord with the Word so that He may make it real to us and in us.
His words become the joy and gladness of our heart, and we live because of what we eat. It is only by eating Jesus that we can live Jesus.
Merely reading the Gospels will only inspire us and give us an aspiration to live in the same way; praying over the Gospels will infuse us with the very One who lived in the Gospels to make us the same as He is.
Lord Jesus, we come to You in Your word to eat You and live because of You! Amen, Lord, may we find Your words and eat them! May Your words become to us the joy and gladness of our heart, for we are called by Your name, O Jehovah! Lord Jesus, we no longer want to walk in the vanity of our mind as the Gentiles do; we love You, we contact You, and we eat You in Your word. May our living be just like Your living as we eat You to live because of You. Duplicate Yourself in us. Live in us. Thank You for setting up a pattern of living a God-man life by the divine life. We want to eat You and live because of You. Hallelujah, when we eat Christ, we live because of Him to become a universal great man who is exactly the same as He is! Praise the Lord, we can live a God-man life by the divine life as we eat Jesus in His word every day! Amen, Lord, gain this corporate living by the perfected God-men for Your expression on the earth today! Amen!
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 Ed Marks on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The High Peak of the Vision and the Reality of the Body of Christ,” ch. 4, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Great Need for a New Revival (2026 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 3, “The God-man Living for a New Revival” – day 2.
- Hymns on this topic:
– We have found that Christ the Spirit is / Who within our spirit dwells; / How available, how near He is, / And His sweetness all excels. / We have found the way to live by Christ— / Pray His Word and call His name! / This—the eating, drinking—has sufficed / And its worth we now proclaim. (Hymns #1153 stanzas 2-3)
– We eat this feast and take God in, / And as we eat we live by Him, / For all the elements within / This feast are God Himself. / Yes, Jesus is our feast! / Yes, Jesus is our feast! / We eat this feast and live by Him, / For Jesus is our feast! (Hymns #1145 stanza 2)
– Ever tender, quiet, restful, / Inclinations put away, / That Thou may for me choose freely / As Thy finger points the way. / Live Thyself, Lord Jesus, through me, / For my very life art Thou; / Thee I take to all my problems / As the full solution now. (Hymns #403 stanza 4)
