the mingled spirit

learning to activate the law of the Spirit of life in a simple way

May 30, 2010 by aGodMan · 6 Comments

Recently, I have really enjoyed a fresh and new appreciation of the law of the Spirit of life, and how much we need to SEE how this law can free us from all our struggling and strife. Many times, even in the church life, we would activate the law of good in our soul to fulfill the demands of the law of God outside of us. We may succeed for a while just to realize that eventually we have no strength or capacity to fulfill the requirements of the law of God because – whenever we activate the law of good, a stronger law in our flesh (the law of sin and of death) arises and defeats it.

We need to see that what we have in us and what we’re talking about are automatic laws. In other words, a law will definitely work, as definite as the law of gravity – which always works, no matter how hard we try to defy gravity. There is no way for us to fulfill God’s purpose by using the law of good for we would definitely fail (even most miserably). Paul himself experienced the futility of trying and cried out “Wretched man that I am!” in chapter 7 of Romans (Rom. 7:24). But praise the Lord for Romans chapter 8! Verses 1 to 2 say

There is now then no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.

Hallelujah – The law of the Spirit of life can free us from the law of sin and of death!

I really enjoyed that activating the law of the Spirit of life is just a turn away. We just need to call “O Lord Jesus”, sing a hymn, read His word, pray-read some verses in the Bible, praise the Lord, thank Him, or use any other means that can help us to turn to our mingled spirit. Praise the Lord! When we exercise our mingled spirit, we will spontaneously overcome our situation, and we are able to live out the life that God desires, by having Him living in us! [guest post: Melinda]

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out of the three lives and four laws, choose the law of the Spirit of life!

April 14, 2010 by aGodMan · 3 Comments

We human beings are so complicated, and when we believe in the Lord, by receiving His divine life into us, we become even MORE complicated! Now a believer has three lives and there are 4 laws related to him. And it’s all based both on the Bible and on our experience! There are different laws and different lives operating in the different parts of the believer’s being. Here are these three lives and four laws:

We have the divine life in our spirit, where the Spirit of life dwells, and this life has a law: the law of the Spirit of life operating in us(Rom. 8:2);
We have the natural human life in our soul, and this life has the law of good in our mind(Rom. 7:23);
We have the fallen human life, the flesh, where sin and Satan dwell, and this life has the law of sin and of death operating in our members(Rom. 7:23);
Outside of us, there is the law of God(Rom. 7:22, 25), which makes demands on man, and which law is always good and perfect.

Daily, we choose by which life to live and which law related to that particular life we “activate”. In Romans 7 we clearly see, and our experience confirms it, that we desire to do good(when we live our natural human life). The law of good in our mind makes sense, wants to do good, to accomplish something that is moral and ethical, even to take the right decision. Unfortunately, AS SOON AS we decide to do something good, we “activate” the law of sin and of death in our members. This law is much stronger than the law of good in our mind, and it overcomes us all the time! This doesn’t mean that we never do good things, but that we are utterly powerless to do all the time the good that we want, or even more: it is impossible for us to obey the law of God which is outside of us and is so perfect! Our mind agrees with the law of God, wants it, desires to fulfill it, to live it out. As soon as we set ourselves to do it, the other law, of sin and of death rises up and defeats us. Eventually, in our Christian pursuit we cry out just like Paul in Rom. 7:24, Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death?

But Hallelujah, there is another life in us: the divine life! And the spontaneous operation of the law of this life in us FREES us from death & the law of sin(Rom. 8:2 says, The law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death)! All we need to do is to end our struggling and striving, and set our mind on our spirit(Rom. 8:6)! When our mind(that agrees with the law of God and wants to do it) is stopped from its endeavors and struggles, and is simply set on our spirit, we enjoy life and peace. This is the way to fulfill the law of God, the way to live the Christian life, and the way to live even a proper human life – to live in our mingled spirit by setting our mind on our spirit and allowing our mingled spirit to be the leading part of our being! When we turn to the Lord to just touch Him and enjoy Him, we activate the law of the Spirit of life within and we are, on the one hand, freed from the law of sin and of death, and on the other hand, filled with life, constituted with God, and built up into His dwelling place, His Body! Lord, today, keep us switching on this law of the Spirit of life by continually turning to our spirit!

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the real worship of God is to eat Him and drink Him in our spirit

January 5, 2010 by aGodMan · 14 Comments

Recently I have been very impressed with God’s desire and seeking for worshippers – those who worship Him in spirit and in truthfulness. God wants us to worship Him, yet nowhere in the Bible we are told that we need to prostrate ourselves before Him and bow down/kneel down to worship Him. Rather, both the beginning and the end of the Bible imply eating – in the garden of Eden, the tree of life, and in the New Jerusalem, the tree of life again. This is the real worship to God – us receiving Him as life, feeding on Him and drinking of Him.

The God whom we worship is not Someone objective to us – outside of us. He is a real subjective inward operating God. Christ is in us – in our spirit, mingled with our spirit! Even our prayer is actually Christ in us praying to Christ in the heavens. The God whom we worship is the indwelling God – organically one with us – He is mingling Himself with us by us enjoying Him, eating Him and drinking Him. Even in John 4(verse 24), where the Lord Jesus speaks about:

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness

He actually speaks about Him giving us the living water to drink and never thirst again! The real worship God is looking for is that we would drink of Him as the living water, and eat Him as the life-giving tree – so that we may flow Him out(out of your innermost being shall flow rivers of living waters). He came as the living bread(and the bread of life, the life-giving bread, the tree of life) and He has the living water for all those that come to Him by faith!

Let’s drink of Him – O, Lord Jesus! As we call on His name, as we open our being to Him, He fills us from within – from our spirit within flows a fountain of life! When we exercise our spirit to call on His name, to pray, to enjoy Him and have fellowship with Him, we worship Him in the way He wants us to. And there is a spontaneous issue of our drinking – we overflow with the Triune God to the ones around us! Just like the woman at the well in Samaria – she drank of the Lord, so she overflowed to all the ones in the city! Lord, today, keep us eating You, drinking You, and enjoying You wherever we are and whatever happens!

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worshipping God in spirit and truthfulness

October 31, 2009 by aGodMan · 1 Comment

During the centuries, many people wanted/attempted to worship God, to know Him, and to have a relationship with Him. Even Cain, in the second generation of the mankind, brought a sacrifice to God – something that “he thought” that God would like. As we see from his example though, God doesn’t just want us to “worship Him in our own way with our own things to give Him”, but He has designed a way and some things that we can give Him.

In the Old Testament, God clearly said: in the place where I set My name, there you shall worship Me! And not just worship the way you want it: but you have to bring sacrifices according to the way I design. As sinners, there has to be someone who dies in our place for our sins – in the Old Testament, an animal without blemish was sacrificed.

In the New Testament, the Lord Jesus said in John 4:23-24

23. But an hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truthfulness, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him.
24. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.

In order for us to contact anything, we need to use the proper organ: you can’t use your eyes to hear, or your ears to see. To substantiate sounds, we use our ears; to see, we use our eyes, to understand things, we use our mind, etc – in the same way, for us to contact and substantiate God and the spiritual things, we need to use the right organ. To worship God, who is Spirit, we need to use our human spirit! The Father God seeks people who worship Him in spirit and in truthfulness!

In the center of our being – past our body, mind, emotion, will – is a certain spot created to contact and contain the Lord as the Spirit – this is our human spirit! A very simple way to contact Him is to call on His name: “O Lord Jesus” – 1 Cor. 12:3 says “… and no one can say, Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit”. Whenever we call on the name of the Lord, we worship God!

In conclusion: God wants us to worship Him/contact Him in spirit(our human spirit) and in truthfulness(the divine reality becoming man’s genuineness and sincerity, see note) – this is the place He specifically designed for His worship! May we know our mingled spirit, love our spirit, and render the Father the real worship He desires – in our spirit and in truthfulness!