Shining and Living Stars follow Christ as the Living Star to be His Duplication

On the one hand, Christ is the living star, and we need to find Him and be one with Him; on the other hand, Christ’s faithful followers are shining and living stars, those who follow Christ as the shining and living star to be His duplication in this dark age, and they are in the churches today.

Thank You, Lord Jesus, for being the living star, even the bright morning star! We come to You today. We want to find You. We want to be one with You. Amen, Lord, make us intensely living and intensely shining. May we be the shining stars in the local churches today. May we remain under Your shining and may we follow You as the shining and living star to be Your duplication today! Amen!

In the beginning of the New Testament we see Christ as the shining and living star, and the magi went to follow Him until they found the newborn King of the Jews, Jesus Christ.

At the end of the New Testament, in the book of Revelation, we see that there are seven stars in the Lord’s right hand, which are the messengers of the churches (Rev. 1:20), and we also see that Christ is the bright and morning star.

The one star in Matthew has been duplicated and reproduced in many stars, and Christ as the living and shining star is in the churches and among the churches to produce many who are just like Him, intensely living and intensely shining.

In each church, there should be some who are not merely entitled elders, having the position of an elder, but who are the messengers of the churches, the bright stars in the Lord’s hands who receive the Lord’s fresh new message for that church. May we be such ones today.

May the Lord grant us the mercy to find Him as the living star and follow Him until we ourselves become His duplication and reproduction to be the living and shining stars in the local churches today.

In the beginning of the New Testament, the living star was outside of religion; at the end, it was in the local churches.

Today Christ as the living star is in the churches, and the overcoming saints as the messengers of the churches, are in the local churches.

Those who shine in darkness and turn people from the wrong way to the right way are shining like the stars (Dan. 12:3).

The Lord wants to gain such ones, the faithful followers of Christ who are shining and living stars.

May we be those who follow Christ as the shining and living star to be His duplication today. May we be the shining saints today.

The Shining and Living Stars Follow the Living and Instant Vision of Christ and Bless God’s People

As those who love the Lord’s appearing, we need to be the shining and living stars today.

The living stars follow the heavenly, living, up-to-date, and instant vision of Christ as the centrality and universality of God’s economy (Acts 26:16-18; Col. 1:17-18).

May we be those who love the Lord’s appearing in this age. May we be the living witnesses of Christ, those who not only have seen something of Christ in the past but, even more, day by day, see something fresh, new, and living from the Lord.

He appointed Paul as a minister and a witness both of the things in which he had seen the Lord and of the things in which He would appear to Paul. We need the Lord’s appearing day by day, even moment by moment.

He is the Now-Christ, the Christ who wants to appear to His people and be living and shining to them. As the Lord’s faithful followers who want to be the shining and living stars today, may we follow Christ as the shining and living star by loving His appearing today.

May we pay attention to Christ, love Christ, focus on Christ, and enjoy Christ, having Christ as our centrality and universality in our Christian life and church life.

The shining and living stars are those who bless God’s people; the more we praise the Lord for God’s people and speak well of them in faith, the more we put ourselves under God’s blessing (Num. 24:9; Gen. 12:2-3; 22:17).

God’s people are like the stars in heaven; God’s people are shining and living stars. If we want to be shining and living stars in reality, we need to bless God’s people.

If we bless the people of God, we will be blessed, but if we curse the people of God, we will be cursed.

As 1 Corinthians 2:9 says, eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has it come up to man’s heart what God has prepared for those who love Him.

If we love the Lord, we enjoy His riches and He makes us shining and living stars. But those who don’t love the Lord are under a curse (1 Cor. 16:22). Oh Lord!

When we don’t love the Lord, we are in darkness, and we are ready to criticise others.

For example, we may be in the meetings of the church, and we may not like an aspect of the meeting, and we may criticise it; we may think we are right, for according to our standard, the meeting was not that proper, but criticising God’s people is not our business.

May we take heed to ourselves so that, in doing the things in the word of God, we may be saved and save those who are around us.

May we allow the Lord’s light to shine on us and expose us, even to convict us and purge us, heal us and give us life.

May the Lord’s light of life kill any germs and negative things in our being.

Even when we are in depression or when we see someone else in depression, instead of moaning, criticising, or condemning God or others, may we come to the Lord, so that we may see a vision of Christ.

When we see Christ as the shining and living star, we will be infused with Him and we will become shining and living stars.

We will realise we are men of unclean lips dwelling among apeople of unclean lips, and the Lord will purge and purify our heart and our lips.

This will qualify us to be sent by the Lord to the saints to dispense Christ into them and speak to them the Lord’s living message. In the Lord’s eyes, it is evil and unclean to criticise the meetings.

The saints are the Lord’s Body; who are we and who gave us the right ot make a standard for a meeting of the Lord’s church? As soon as we say something critical of the meeting, we break the oneness. Oh Lord!

May the Lord’s merciful shining come to us and to all the saints so that we may see the saints being shining and living stars and we would minister life and light to them.

A living star is a person who blesses God’s people; those who bless the people of God are under a blessing, and those who speak negatively about the church are not under God’s blessing.

If we exercise our spirit to see the church as He sees it, we will speak positively concerning the church, declaring that the church is lovely and that it is God’s house; this causes us to receive a blessing.

Instead of being disappointed with the church, we need to be warned and ask the Lord to cleanse us, and we need to declare by the exercise of our spirit that the church is wonderful and glorious!

The church may cause us trouble, but we still love the church. It is good to be before the Lord regarding this matter and tell Him,

Lord Jesus, make us the faithful followers of Christ who are shining and living stars today! Amen, Lord, we want to follow You as the shining and living star today so that we may be Your duplication. Grant us to have the living and instant vision of Christ as the centrality and universality of God’s economy. May we see and follow the heavenly and up-to-date vision of Christ in our daily living. Amen, may we be living witnesses of Christ in what He has appeared to us and in the things He is continually appearing to us! Oh Lord, make us the living stars in the local churches today! May we be those who bless God’s people. May we see that the people of God in the church are shining and living stars and may we never speak anything negative about the church or about the meetings of the church. Amen, Lord, may we put ourselves under God’s blessing by praising the Lord for God’s people and speaking well of them in faith! Praise the Lord for the church! Hallelujah for all the saints! Amen, Lord, make all the saints shining and living stars today!

The Living Stars give heed to the Prophetic Word of the Scriptures and Enjoy & are Filled with the Sevenfold Intensified Spirit

According to 2 Peter 1:19, we need to give heed to the prophetic word of the Scriptures as to a lamp shining in a dark place so that Christ as the morning star would rise in our hearts day by day.

The shining and living stars give heed to the word of God.

If we give heed to the word in the Bible, we will have the Lord’s rising in our hearts to shine in the darkness of apostasy where we are today, before His actual appearing as the morning star (2 Pet. 1:19; John 6:63; Rev. 2:28; 22:16; 2 Tim. 4:8).

Christ is the morning star; in this dark age, He is not the sun shining in its brightness but the morning star rising in the hearts of the overcoming saints of Christ.

We need to take heed to the sure word until the morning star rises in our heart. This means that we need to pray-read the Word of God not only corporately with the saints but even more, personally between the Lord and us.

When we genuinely pray over the Bible, taking the word of God in the Bible as our prayer book and praying it to the Lord with much prayerful consideration, the morning star rises in our heart.

Something rises up in us, something that is shining.

This morning star in Greek is “phosphorus” which is a light-bearing substance. In 2 Timothy 3:16 we see that all Scripture is God-breathed; it is the breath of God.

The Scripture is the embodiment of God as the Spirit; the Spirit is the essence and substance of the Scripture. Just as phosphorus is the essential substance in a match, so the Spirit is the essential substance of the Bible.

We need to strike the spirit of the Scriptures with our spirit to catch the divine fire, and the morning star will rise up in our heart.

When we exercise our spirit in coming to the Lord’s word, we will catch the divine fire; in our personal time with the Lord, as we prayerfully read the Bible, we can catch the divine fire, and the morning star will rise in our hearts.

The Lord’s word is like fire (Jer. 23:29) and also like a hammer. He burns in us and He breaks the rocks in pieces.

As the Lord speaks to us His living word through our prayerful consideration of the Word, He will enlighten us, He will break the things in us in which we have confidence, and we will catch the divine fire.

Our self, our natural life, our flesh, our lusts, and our concepts are broken to pieces by the Lord’s word as a hammer.

May we see the heavenly vision of the heavenly Christ as the shining heavenly star and walk in His shining presence.

May we take heed to the sure word of the Bible as to a lamp shining in a dark place until the morning star rises in our heart.

May we follow the faithful followers of Christ who are the shining saints in the church. And may we pray that the Lord would give us a heart for the living Christ.

In this way, we can be shining and living stars.

In the principle of the morning star, we as Christians should rise up early because the early morning is the best time to meet the Lord and fellowship with Him, praise and sing, pray-read the Bible and the ministry, and pray to the Lord (see S. S. 7:12; Psa. 5:1-3; 57:8-9; 59:16-17; 63:1-8; 90:14; 92:1-2; 108:2-3; 143:8; Exo. 16:21).

May we never rise up late but rise up a bit earlier to seek the Lord in His word prayerfully. May we take the word of God and pray it to the Lord.

The Lord will secretly give Himself as the morning star to those who love Him and who watch and wait for Him so that they may taste the freshness of His presence at His coming back after a long absence (1 Thes. 5:6; Rev. 2:28; 3:2-3; 16:15).

Amen, may we be such ones today! The living and shining stars enjoy and are filled with the sevenfold intensified Spirit to make them intensely living and intensely shining for God’s building (Rev. 3:1; 4:5; 5:6).

May we hear what the Spirit is speaking to the churches, and may we be filled with the sevenfold intensified Spirit.

When we touch the Spirit in His intensification, when the Spirit is intensified in us, we will be intensely living and intensely shining for God’s building.

This produces us as the Lord’s overcoming saints today among the churches and for the building up of the churches.

Lord Jesus, may we as living and shining stars give heed to the prophetic word of the Scriptures as to a lamp shining in a dark place so that Christ as the morning star may rise in our heart! Amen, Lord, day by day we come to Your word to seek You, enjoy You, and receive Your fresh shining. Oh Lord, may we have Your rising in our hearts as the morning star as we come to You in Your word. May we be those who rise up early to meet the Lord. We want to fellowship with You, praise and sing, and pray-read the Bible as we pray to the Lord to be infused with Him! Oh Lord, fill us with the sevenfold intensified Spirit today! Make us intensely living and intensely shining! Intensify Your organic salvation in us! Make us the shining and living stars today who are intensely living and intensely shining with the sevenfold intensified Spirit! Amen, Lord, may our shining be for God’s building! Make us Your overcoming saints today, those who follow Christ faithfully to be the shining stars in the local churches today!

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, 1970, vol. 1, “New Testament Service,” pp. 275-278, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The All-inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew (2025 Thanksgiving Blending Conference), week 1, The Up-to-date, Instant, and Living Vision of the Heavenly Christ as the Living Star – day 4.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – O Morning Star, how fair and bright, / Thou beamest forth in truth and light! / O Sov’reign meek and lowly, / Thou Root of Jesse, David’s Son, / My Lord and Master, Thou hast won / My heart to serve Thee solely! / Thou art holy, / Fair and glorious, all-victorious, / Rich in blessing, / Rule and might o’er all possessing. (Hymns #174 stanza 1)
  – In the age of Revelation, / Out from all denomination, / We are in the local churches, / In spirit one. / Nothing old or religious binds, / Everyone’s a star that shines; / Every church a golden lampstand, / Burning with Christ. / Christ and a burning church, / Christ and a burning church, / Christ and the church with the saints, / all shining stars! / Hallelujah, hallelujah, / Lord, we’ve given our all to Thee / To be burning in the spirit, to be / shining forth with Christ. (Hymns #1264)
  – Caring for the churches / Is the Son of Man: / Voice of many waters, / Stars in His right hand; / Eyes aflame; His face is / Shining as the sun; / Churches—fear no trial, / He’s the living One! (Hymns #1259 stanza 3)