As we believers in Christ as the Lord’s sheep experience the Lord’s shepherding and remain under His kingship, we enjoy His covenant of peace, we have God’s presence and fellowship with Him in oneness; we enjoy His blessing and become a blessing to others.
Lord Jesus, keep us under Your shepherding today. Keep us under Your kingship. We want to remain in fellowship with You in all things and concerning all things. Amen, Lord, thank You for bringing us under Your covenant of peace. Thank You for protecting us from all evil things and people; we can dwell securely in Christ and in the church life. We love You, Lord, and we want to enjoy You as our blessing. We remain here, under the promised showers of blessing, enjoying all that You are and blessing others also with the Triune God! Amen!
This week in our morning revival, we have been enjoying two wonderful symbols of what the believers are: living stones and sheep.
On the one hand, we believers are symbolised by living stones, those who are transformed with Christ’s stone nature to be God’s spiritual house. Christ is the stone; He is the living stone, the foundation stone, the cornerstone, and the topstone of God’s building.
We as believers in Christ, are born of God with His life and nature, and we are being transformed to be living stones by coming to the Lord as the living stone to be transformed.
As we behold the Lord, He infuses us with what He is, with His stone element, and at the same time, He removes anything of clay, anything natural and negative from our being.
We are becoming one with Him to such an extent that we will come back with Him as a corporate overcomer, a warrior bride, to be the smiting stone to crush human government to bring in the kingdom of God. Amen!
We believers are also symbolised by sheep; as the Lord’s sheep, we are under Christ’s organic shepherding.
He came as the Shepherd to search for His sheep and seek them out.
As seen in Ezekiel 34, the Lord Himself comes to be our Shepherd, take care of us, and bring us into the enjoyment of Himself as the good land. He brings us into our own land, the all-inclusive Christ, and He brings us to springs of living water.
He causes us to lie down and have rest, and He exercises righteous judgments to clear away any unjust things among us, His recovered people.
As a result of being shepherded by the Lord, we are under Him as our King, and He rules and reigns in us. What a wonderful Shepherd we have! Amen!
Under the Lord’s Shepherding we Enjoy His Covenant of Peace, are Freed from Slavery, and have God’s presence, Enjoying Fellowship with God in Oneness
As believers in Christ who experience the Lord’s shepherding and remain under His kingship, we enjoy His covenant of peace, which is secure and unchanging, and we are no longer subject to spiritual troubles and disturbances (Ezek. 34:24-28).
God makes a covenant of peace with us; He not only promises to bring us in His peace but even more, He makes a covenant with us, something legal and binding, to keep us in His peace and give us His peace.
He is bound by His covenant of peace to shepherd us, to make sure we are secure, and to spare us from any kind of troubles and disturbances.
Under the Lord’s shepherding, all the evil beasts, evil persons, are kept away from the Lord’s recovered people (34:25a; cf. Acts 20:28-29; Phil. 3:2-3).
This is His promise, and this is what we experience today. We in the church life today enjoy the Lord’s peace and covering, His protection and His covering, and based on the covenant of peace, we are no longer subject to spiritual troubles and disturbances.
The Lord comes and breaks our yoke, delivers us from slavery, and promises that we will not be prey to the enemy but will dwell in peace and safety (Ezek. 34:25-28). May we learn to claim the covenant of peace.
May we stand under the Lord’s covenant of peace. The enemy is rampant these days, trying to find openings to come to attack and damage God’s flock.
But we as the Lord’s sheep are under His shepherding; we don’t run off by ourselves but stay together with the saints, under the Lord’s shepherding, to be kept from the evil ones, from any evil people.
We enjoy the Lord’s covenant of peace to give us the security and unchangeableness of His promise, so that we may be spared and rescued from any kind of spiritual troubles and disturbances.
He is shepherding us both personally, in our personal lives as individual Christians, and corporately, as we come together with the saints.
We can testify that, as we come together with the saints in the meetings of the church, in conferences, in blending meetings, and in all kinds of trainings, we enjoy the Lord’s covenant of peace.
He breaks the yoke of sin and the world; the Lord Jesus breaks every fetter. We don’t have any yokes in the church life; instead, we have full liberty and full release.
The Lord delivers us from any kind of slavery; we are slaves to nothing and no one, for we are the Lord’s sheep. The more we enjoy the Lord’s shepherding, the more we’re liberated from any kind of slavery.
He promises that we will never be prey to the enemy; this means that, no matter how much the enemy attacks, we will never be defeated or captured by the enemy.
Instead of being prey to the enemy, we enjoy the victory of the Lord together with the saints and we stand in His victory.
Through the experience of the Lord’s shepherding, we, as God’s recovered people, have God’s presence, God is among us, and we are before God (vv. 30-31).
This portrays our perfect fellowship with God – the fellowship in oneness – in the mingling of God and man, in which we are one with God and God is one with us.
We know that God is our God, He is with us, we are in His presence; we are His people, and we are the flock of His pasture.
We are men and Jehovah is our God; though we are mortal men full of weaknesses and shortcomings, we are the Lord’s sheep and He is our God.
We enjoy God in a sweet oneness with Him, and are mingled with Him. Whenever we come together, we sense God’s presence, and we are mingled with the Lord a little more.
Our Shepherd is with us whenever we meet, and we enjoy the Lord’s shepherding, for His presence is everything to us.
Thank the Lord for His shepherding; it is not because of one person in the church life nor is it merely because of some things we do but it is the Lord’s presence that has been with us and has kept us in this sweet fellowship in oneness. Amen!
Lord Jesus, thank You for the covenant of peace You made with us. We open to You today. We want to enjoy Your shepherding in peace. Hallelujah, Christ banishes anything evil from the land so that we may dwell securely and have full rest and satisfaction! Amen, Lord, thank You for shepherding us in peace in the church life today. We want to remain under Your shepherding together with all the saints. We open to You to be freed from the slavery of sin and the world. Hallelujah, Jesus breaks every fetter! Praise the Lord, in the church life we have no yokes; instead, we have full liberty and full release! Thank You, Lord, for delivering us from all kinds of slavery, and we are not prey to the enemy. We stand on Your promises today. We love to be in Your presence, having God among us and being before God. Amen, Lord, keep us in the perfect fellowship with God, the fellowship in oneness! Keep us in the mingling of God and man, in which we are one with God and God is one with us! Amen!
Through His Shepherding, the Lord brings us into the Enjoyment of His Blessing and Makes us a Blessing under the Showers of Blessing
How good it is to be under the Lord’s shepherding as His sheep! He promises that, as those in His recovery by life, we will dwell in peace and security. We will be secure in our land and no one is making us afraid.
As the Lord’s sheep under His shepherding, we dwell securely and restfully in Christ, without any fear.
We have peace in Christ. We lie down, we sleep, and we are safe in the church life; we have a sense of security, for the Lord is with us.
We are not afraid to talk to someone who shares the message or an elder, and we are not afraid of people; rather, we enjoy peace and security.
Even more, through His shepherding, the Lord brings us into the enjoyment of His blessing and causes us to become a source of blessing under the showers of blessing (Ezek. 34:26-27a, 29; Gen. 12:2-3; Rom. 15:29; 2 Cor. 1:12, 15; Zech. 10:1).
It is the Lord by His shepherding who makes us and the place where we are a blessing, and He causes the showers to come down in their season, and there will be showers of blessing. All the trees of the field will yield their fruit, and the earth will yield its increase.
This is what the Lord does to us and among us under His shepherding; He increases the food, He sends showers of blessing, and He makes us a blessing.
We can testify today in the church life that, by the Lord’s mercy, we are under His blessing.
We are not perfect, we do not have a sinless perfection, and we do not always do the right thing, but we are under the Lord’s shepherding, and He is pouring out His blessing.
We have the peace that is the peace of the covenant, and the Lord’s blessing follows.
First, we ourselves enjoy the Lord’s blessing, and then He causes us to become a source of blessing to others so that they also may be supplied.
Being blessed by the Lord, however, does not mean that we have outward human possessions and prosperity; this is not the blessing that God wants to give us in this age.
The apostle Paul was under God’s blessing and blessed so many others, but he was in prison, having nothing outwardly and even being quite limited and restricted as he was incarcerated.
Yet he lived under the Lord’s blessing, he enjoyed showers of blessing, and he lived in the Body of Christ under the Lord’s shepherding; he also blessed others, being a blessing to them.
These days, before the Lord’s returns, there will be many trials and tribulations; we need to remain under the Lord’s shepherding and simply enjoy His blessing.
We exercise our spirit, stay with the Lord, abide in Him, and remain in the church life; here the Lord is sending showers of blessing.
He speaks to us in a rich way, He blesses us with His word and with His presence, and He makes us a blessing to others.
The blessing in Numbers 6:23-27, like that in 2 Corinthians 13:14, is the eternal blessing of the Triune God, which is the Triune God dispensing Himself in His Divine Trinity into us for our enjoyment.
The true blessing is God Himself. God’s blessing is not just having outward prosperity or large numbers in the church; God’s blessing is His dispensing, the dispensing of the Triune God into us.
We are sheep, needy sheep, under His shepherding; He shepherds us today and for eternity, for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will shepherd us to the springs of living water.
We can enjoy the eternal blessing of the Triune God! Amen! In order for us to receive the Lord’s blessing, we must practice the oneness, and the practice of the oneness is the one accord (Psa. 133; Eph. 4:3-4a; Acts 1:14; 2:46; Rom. 15:5-6). We treasure the one accord among us.
The Lord speaks to us in the meetings, for the saints enjoy the Lord in one accord, and even after the meeting, we still sense the showers of blessing coming down upon us. This is the strongest sign that the Lord’s blessing is upon the local church.
Thank the Lord that He sends us showers of blessing in season, so timely.
Thank the Lord for gracing us, binding us together, keeping us, and preserving us in the oneness and in one accord so that there will be God’s commanded blessing with us.
May we remain here, on the genuine ground of oneness, practicing the oneness and the one accord with all the saints, and enjoying the Lord’s blessing under the Lord’s shepherding!
Lord Jesus, we love to be under Your shepherding today, for You keep us in peace and safety, and we are full of security and joy in the church life. Hallelujah, all the Lord’s sheep dwell securely in the church life under the Lord’s shepherding, kept by His presence so dear! Amen, Lord, thank You for bringing us into the enjoyment of Your blessing. Keep us under Your blessing. Cause us to become a source of blessing under the showers of blessing. How wonderful it is to be under the Lord’s blessing, enjoying His divine dispensing every day! Amen, Lord, keep us enjoying You as our blessing and make us a blessing to others also. Flow through us as blessing to those around us. Hallelujah, God causes the showers of blessing to come down in their season! Amen, Lord, we abide in You and we enjoy the rain of the Holy Spirit upon us to nourish us, bless us, and make us a blessing! Keep us here, Lord, in oneness and in one accord, to receive the Lord’s blessing and be a blessing to others also! 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 James Lee on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of Ezekiel, pp. 181-184, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Believers (1) (2026 July Semi-Annual Training), week 5, “Living Stones and Sheep” – day 6.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Dwell we here on a high mountain, / Wet with the morning-fresh dew, / Slaking our thirst at the fountain, / Water so living and new. / Christ is our rest and enjoyment, / Here we have nothing to fear; / Here all the sheep dwell securely, / Kept by His presence so dear. (Hymns #1221 stanzas 4-5)
– O brother, won’t you gather in the local church? / A fountain here is flowing deep and wide. / The Shepherd now would bring you to the local church, / Where thirsty spirits can be satisfied. Drinking at the springs of living water, / Happy now am I, / My heart they satisfy; / Drinking at the springs of living water, / O wonderful and bountiful supply! (Hymns #1234 stanza 3 and chorus)
– As we’re daily in this process / And by life are sanctified, / How we thank Him for the blessing / Of the church life He’s supplied. / Here God is our full enjoyment, / Practical and real to us; / Sons we are, and heirs together, / In the church life, glorious! (Hymns #1203 stanza 8)
