A normal believer in Christ

The focus of God’s economy is our mingled spirit, and we as believers in Christ regenerated with the divine life need to realize that the most crucial part of our being is our spirit. Being a Christian means living no longer by ourselves and in ourselves but by the divine life in our spirit. This is a learning process – every day we learn to not live in our flesh or in our soul, but to turn to our mingled spirit and walk according to our spirit, be in our spirit, and live in our mingled spirit. Oh, Lord, unveil us to see the importance and preciousness of our mingled spirit! We want to be normal Christians living in their spirit!

the importance of our mingled spirit

On the one hand, our mingled spirit – the divine Spirit indwelling our spirit, being joined and mingled with our spirit to be one spirit – is very precious and important to God. But on the other hand, we also need to see the importance of our spirit and the need to live in our spirit. Many times the Lord exposes us through the people around us and especially through the saints in the church that we still live by and in ourselves. When He exposes us, we may try to improve our behavior and act “nicer”, “more thoughtful in our response” – but this is NOT what God wants! God wants that we live in our spirit and walk according to our spirit (1 Cor. 2:11-13)!

God is very mysterious, and we also are mysterious. But the Bible tells us that man was created by God with a human spirit, and then later we see that God became a man, lived a perfect human life, died on the cross to solve all the negative situations, resurrected and was ascended! In His resurrection, Christ became the life-giving Spirit to come into our spirit and be mingled with our spirit as one spirit. The two spirits are mingled together to the extent that there’s no way to separate them or discern which is which. We need to know our spirit and live in our spirit because the Christian life is a life in our mingled spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).

the secret: the Spirit with our spirit

How can we enjoy God’s salvation and participate in it? It is not by understanding it or agreeing with it – the mystery hidden from the ages has been revealed to us in our spirit (Rom. 16:25) and the secret of God’s dynamic salvation is the Spirit with our spirit! On His side, the divine Spirit is the Spirit of God processed and consummated to be the life-giving, compounded, and indwelling Spirit! On our side, the divine Spirit has come into our spirit and has mingled Himself with our spirit to bring in us the reality of the Triune God! Now the Spirit dispenses and infuses into us all that God is by mingling Himself with us all the time.

God’s salvation can be enjoyed and partaken of only in the mingled spirit. Through the human spirit indwelt by the divine Spirit we as God’s chosen people can participate in the dynamic salvation of God as our living in this age and our destiny in eternity! Saints, we need to see that the most crucial secret for God to execute His dynamic salvation and for us the believers to participate in His salvation is the Spirit with our spirit (Rom. 8:16)! Whenever we turn to our spirit and fellowship with the Lord, He carries out His dynamic and full salvation in us.

being enlightened to see the mingled spirit

We can be Christians for many years and only “accidentally touch our spirit”, not knowing that we have a mingled spirit and that the Lord as the Spirit is joined to our spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). We need to pray that the Lord would enlighten us to see and know our mingled spirit – the divine Spirit joined to and mingled with our human spirit – so that we may enter into the intrinsic significance of God’s dynamic salvation in Christ (Rom. 8:2; 2 Cor. 13:14; Acts. 26:18; Eph. 1:13-14). If we know our spirit, we will refuse to live, do anything or go anywhere apart not in our spirit! The Christian life is altogether a matter of living and being in our spirit!

References and Further Reading

• Inspired from, Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990, chs. 7-9, and, Crystallization-study of the Epistle to the Romans, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Focus of the Lord’s Recovery, week 4;
• Purchase the Morning Revival book online via LSM;
• Picture source: the secret place with the Lord;

Oh, Lord, cause us to know and treasure our mingled spirit! Thank You for revealing to us little by little the importance of our spirit to You and to us as Christians. Make us normal Christians, those who live, walk, and have their being in their mingled spirit. Lord, we want to experience Your dynamic salvation by being in our spirit! Cause us to see the secret of Your dynamic salvation – the Spirit with our spirit!