God wants to sanctify our whole being not only positionally but also dispositionally to preserve our spirit, soul, and body complete at the Lord’s coming.
Today we need to cooperate with God to preserve our spirit in sanctification; that is, we need to keep our spirit in a living condition by exercising our spirit. God operates and we cooperate.
Oh Lord, preserve our whole being complete! Sanctify us wholly! We open to You! Have Your way to dispositionally sanctify us to make us the same as Christ in every possible way! Amen!
We believers in Christ need to learn to cooperate with the Lord to deal with our heart, in particular our heart, since our heart is deceitful and wicked.
Yes, by regeneration, the Lord has imparted into us a new heart and a new spirit, and He gave us a new heart to love the Lord and pursue after Him.
But it is up to us, through our cooperation with the Lord, how much we are still new in our heart, how much our heart is renewed, for our new heart needs to be continually renewed.
We are not new in our heart nor are we soft, open, loving, and at pace by natural birth. It doesn’t come naturally.
Because of the fall, every part of our inner being was affected, and by default, we do not seek God nor do we love Him.
But praise the Lord, now that we have believed into the Lord Jesus and have Him as life in our spirit, we are under God’s loving care, and He is helping us in many ways to have a soft heart, a pure heart, a loving heart, and a heart that is at peace.
As long as we turn to Him and contact Him, as long as we turn our heart to the Lord, He has a way to cause our heart to be proper.
Our heart needs to be proper because our heart is the switch of life; the divine life has great power, but this power is limited by our heart.
When our heart is proper, when our heart is renewed and turned toward the Lord, the divine life can spread from our spirit into our soul, and the Lord has a way to operate in our being.
May we let the Lord establish our heart blameless in holiness today and day by day. May we allow Him to cause our heart to be soft, pure, loving, and at peace.
May we just open to Him and allow Him. He only wants our cooperation.
He wants to establish our heart blameless in holiness by the renewing of the sanctifying Spirit so that we may be as new as the New Jerusalem, even to become the holy city, being sanctified not only positionally but also dispositionally! Hallelujah!
God’s Dispositional Sanctification of our Spirit, Soul, and Body is to Sonize us Divinely
On the one hand, we have been redeemed by the Lord’s precious blood shed on the cross; this is for our positional sanctification, for us to believe into the Lord and be separated unto Him.
But God wants to not only make us holy in position by the redeeming blood of Christ to separate us unto Himself in His judicial redemption, but also to sanctify us in our very disposition (Heb. 13:12; 10:29; Rom. 6:19, 22; Eph. 5:26; 1 Thes. 5:23-24). Wow!
On the judicial side, God made us holy in position through our faith in Christ and by accepting the Lord’s redemption on the cross.
But now that we are redeemed and positionally sanctified, He is also sanctifying us in our disposition by His own holy nature to saturate us with Himself in His organic salvation.
This is what the New Testament reveals regarding the matter of positional and dispositional sanctification. He wants us to be sanctified in our very nature, in our disposition.
Oh, how many moments and minutes and even hours we have lost and wasted by not being open to the Lord’s dispositional sanctification!
He is right now in us and also around us to carry out His saving work; if at this moment we are not being sanctified, at least at this moment, we are not being saved.
May we keep our being open to the Lord and learn to contact Him in spirit by the exercise of our spirit to be sanctified in our disposition all the time.
We need the God of peace to sanctify us wholly, entirely, perfectly, and even consummately, completely in every way.
This is what the God of peace is doing in us, day by day, until we see the Lord.
God’s dispositional sanctification of our spirit, soul, and body, is to “sonize” us divinely, making us sons of God so that we may become the same as God in His life and nature but not in His Godhead so that we can be God’s expression (Eph. 1:4-5; Heb. 2:10-11).
God wants us to partake of His holiness in our very nature; for this, we enjoy His dispositional sanctification in order to be made sons of God. He is making us His holy sons who match His holy nature.
We have been chosen to be holy, and this is unto sonship. The ultimate goal is for God to gain the corporate sonship, the New Jerusalem.
He is making us sons of God so that we may become the same as God in His life and nature. Praise the Lord!
By sanctifying us, God transforms us in the essence of our spirit, soul, and body so that He may make us wholly like Him in nature. In this way, He preserves our spirit, soul, and body wholly complete.
He wants to preserve our entire being complete, even blameless in that day. He is not ashamed to call us brothers, for we are regenerated with His life and nature and we are partakers of God’s holy nature.
Sometimes we look at ourselves and we are ashamed to call ourselves saints, for we are so unholy and unrighteous.
But the Lord is not ashamed to call us brothers; He leads us into glory by His dispositional sanctification, and He will make us the same as He is!
Quantitatively, God sanctifies us wholly; qualitatively, He preserves us complete, that is, He keeps our spirit, soul, and body perfect.
On His side, this is what He does – He preserves us; on our side, we need to take the responsibility to cooperate with His operation to be preserved.
We need to take the initiative to cooperate with God’s operation to be preserved by keeping our spirit, soul, and body in the saturating of the Holy Spirit (1 Thes. 5:12-24).
He operates and we cooperate. We failed, we still fail, and we still sin, and our heart is so changeable; but God is operating, He is devoted to work to preserve our whole being complete by His dispositional sanctification, and we cooperate with Him.
Lord Jesus, thank You for dying for us on the cross to redeem us; we believe into You and we enjoy Your divine life. Hallelujah, we are made holy in position when we believe into the redeeming blood of Christ that separates us unto God! Praise the Lord! Amen, Lord, thank You that You want us to be sanctified not only in position but even more, in disposition! Hallelujah for God’s dispositional sanctification! Praise the Lord, God is sanctifying us in our disposition by His own holy nature to saturate us with Himself in His organic salvation. Amen, Lord, we open to You today. We want to cooperate with Your inner, sanctifying work. Transform us in the very essence of our spirit, soul, and body to make us wholly like You in our nature! Oh Lord, thank You for working to preserve our whole being complete. We want to take the initiative to cooperate with Your operation to be preserved by keeping our spirit, soul, and body in the saturating of the Holy Spirit!
Cooperate with God to Preserve our Spirit in Sanctification by Keeping our Spirit in a Living Condition through the Exercise of our Spirit
In order for us to cooperate with God to preserve our spirit in sanctification, we must keep our spirit in a living condition by exercising our spirit.
In order for us to preserve our spirit, we must keep our spirit living by exercising it to have fellowship with God! Amen!
The three functions or parts of our spirit are the conscience, the fellowship, and the intuition. By means of our spirit, we fellowship with God, we contact Him, we sense what is of God, and we sense what is wrong in us by touching God.
If we fail to exercise our spirit and fellowship with God, we will leave it in a deadened condition. Oh Lord!
God’s work to preserve our spirit requires our exercise so that it would not be deadened but be alive and living. This can happen through our fellowship with Him.
The vitality of our spirit is the way that our spirit will be preserved. If we are perpetually not exercising our spirit, non-functional in spirit, we are stuck, for the Lord cannot operate in us and we cannot fellowship with the Lord.
May we learn to cooperate with God to preserve our spirit in sanctification by keeping our spirit in a living condition through the exercise of our spirit.
When we contact the Lord by exercising our spirit, we have a direct sense and consciousness in our spirit, which comes from God.
Our conscience will accuse us or excuse us, depending on the Lord’s shining on us; we can then confess our sins.
A very wonderful way for us to preserve our spirit in sanctification is to keep it living through proper exercise. When we rejoice, pray, and give thanks, we exercise our spirit (1 Thes. 5:16-19).
Always rejoice! Amen! Unceasingly pray! Amen! In everything give thanks! Amen, thank You, Lord!
We need to rejoice, pray, and give thanks so that we may exercise our spirit and preserve our spirit in sanctification. To preserve our spirit is first of all to exercise our spirit to keep it living and pull it out of death. Oh Lord!
So many times our spirit is deadened by many things, situations, and matters, but we can exercise to pray unceasingly, thank the Lord in all things, and praise Him.
We can testify that, when we exercise our spirit, our spirit is vitalised, and we touch the Lord in a living way; in this way, we preserve our spirit in sanctification.
This requires us not to be quiet nor to be too loud but to exercise both our spirit and our mouth to pray, praise the Lord, and thank Him.
If we allow our spirit to remain in a condition of death, we do not cooperate with the sanctifying God to preserve our spirit. But praise the Lord, we can cooperate with the Lord by exercising our spirit!
Another way for us to preserve our spirit in sanctification is by being separated from any spirit-deadening situation (Num. 6:6-8; 2 Cor. 5:4).
Sometimes we feel we are in a situation where death is present; if we cannot prevail to exercise our spirit in such a situation, we simply need to be separated from such a situation.
We need to stay away from death by all means.
Sometimes in a situation of death, life can be ministered, but most times, if death is prevailing, just as the Nazarites in the Old Testament had to stay away from any touch with death or dead things and persons, so we need to stay away from death.
2 Corinthians 7:1 gives us another way for us to preserve our spirit in sanctification: we need to keep it from all defilement and contamination.
Even our spirit can be contaminated. Our spirit can be defiled.
Especially in this age of the internet and social media, when we can have access to everything we want, we need to stay away from images that defile us, videos that contaminate us, and things that we can see or hear which can defile and contaminate our spirit.
Even when we go to the meeting, looking around to see people and things, we can get contaminated. Our spirit can be defiled.
We need to repent and return to the Lord. In the privacy of our own home, in our personal time in private when no one can see us, we need to keep ourselves from anything that can defile us.
We need to preserve our spirit in sanctification! We must worship God, serve God, and fellowship with God in our spirit and with our spirit.
Whatever we are, whatever we have, and whatever we do must be in our spirit (John 4:24; Rom. 1:9; Phil. 2:1). For this, we need to exercise ourselves to have a conscience without offense toward God and man (Acts 24:16; Rom. 9:1; cf. 8:16).
The Lord shines on us, and offenses are being exposed; we simply need to agree with His light, confess, and be cleansed. May our conscience be void of offense, having no problem with God and man.
In order for us to preserve our spirit in sanctification, we must take heed to our spirit, setting our mind on our spirit and caring for the rest in our spirit (Mal. 2:15-16; Rom. 8:6; 2 Cor. 2:13).
In all things, we need to take heed to our spirit. We need to learn to set our mind on our spirit. Our wandering mind needs to be set, focused on, and fixed on our spirit.
And we need to care for the rest in our spirit, not merely for things that open up to us and are beneficial to us in the environment.
Lord Jesus, we want to cooperate with You to preserve our spirit in sanctification today. Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit. We want to keep our spirit living, even to be kept in a living and vital condition! Hallelujah, we rejoice! Praise the Lord! Amen, Lord, we want to unceasingly pray! In everything we give You thanks, dear Lord, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for us. Praise You, Lord, for everything! Keep us exercising our spirit. We want to stay away from any deadening situation and person and simply remain in our spirit, exercising our spirit to keep it living! Amen, Lord, may we give You our best cooperation today to preserve our spirit in sanctification! We worship You! We serve You! We want to do all things in our spirit! Praise the Lord for our spirit! Amen, Lord, we exercise ourselves to have a conscience without offense toward God and man. We want to take heed to our spirit, set our mind on our spirit, and care for the rest in our spirit!
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 the brother Minoru Chen on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of 1 Thessalonians, pp. 204-207, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (part 3 – 2025 Summer Training), week 29, The Cause of Our Blamelessness in Holiness and the Cause of Our Complete Sanctification in Our Spirit, Soul, and Body – day 4.
- Similar articles on this topic:
– The spirit itself is not defiled, a portion from, The Experience of Life, Chapter 13, by Witness Lee.
– What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden—the Consequences of Adam and Eve’s Choice, via, Bibles for America blog.
– The spirit must be pure, a portion from, Lessons on Prayer, Chapter 5, by Witness Lee.
– 1 Peter (Program #8) -The Full Salvation of the Triune God and Its Issues (6), via, Bible study radio.
– Dealing with the spirit is dealing with its passage, a portion from, The Experience of Life, Chapter 13, by Witness Lee.
– Words That Spread Death and How to Stop Them, via, Shepherding Words.
– Keeping our spirit living, a portion from, Life-Study of 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Chapter 23, by Witness Lee.
– Why shouldn’t I speak or listen to negative words? More via, Living to Him.
– Sanctification – the process of God’s organic salvation, article in Affirmation and Critique by, Ed Marks.
– Incorruptible and Undefiled and Unfading, via, New Jerusalem blog.
– The essential works of the Spirit’s dispositional sanctification, a portion from, The Spirit with Our Spirit, Chapter 11, by Witness Lee.
– 10 Things You Obtain Immediately upon Believing in Jesus, via, Holding to Truth in Love. - Hymns on this topic:
– O Lord, Thou art the Spirit now / Who in my spirit makes His home; / He mingles with my spirit too, / And both one spirit thus become. / Lord, teach me how to exercise / My spirit now to contact Thee, / That in Thy Spirit I may walk / And live by Thy reality. (Hymns #493 stanzas 4-5)
– Lord, wholly sanctify / And blameless let us be / In spirit, soul, and body too / For that blest day with Thee. (Hymns #1306 stanza 7)
– My spirit, soul, and body, / Dear Lord, I give to Thee, / A consecrated offering, / Thine evermore to be. / My all is on the altar; / Lord, I am all Thine own; / Oh, may my faith ne’er falter! / Lord, keep me Thine alone. (Hymns #447 stanza 1 and chorus)
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God is doing a work to sanctify us dispositionally, and we need to cooperate with Him to preserve our spirit in sanctification.
We do this by exercising our spirit, setting our mind on our spirit, and doing all things in our spirit.
Also, we always rejoice, Unceasingly pray, and în everything we give thanks. We also need to stay away from any defilement of the spirit by not looking and images that defile us.
Amen Lord Jesus, preserve our spirit from any deadening element.
Our spirit is mainly to fellowship with the Lord but we can’t do that if our conscience and intuition are compromised.
To preserve our spirit we need use our voice to pray, rejoice and give thanks.
We also need to abstain from anything that defiles our spirit.
Oh Lord Jesus. Keep us rejoicing in you as well as paying, giving thanks, exercising our spirit, as shown in 1 Thes. 5:16-19 to be enlivened.
Also keep us from defiling pictures while we close and cleanse ourselves from the world pictures and worldly defilement of flesh and spirit and be perfected in holiness and in the fear of God as shown in 2 Cor. 7:1
Through the redeeming blood of Christ we have been sanctified, separated unto God for His expression, but now our spirit and soul and body must be preserved complete by the saturating work of the Holy Spirit through organic salvation.
Our spirit must be kept living by the proper exercise of rejoicing, praying and giving thanks in everything.
How blessed we are, brother. Our Father is always preserving our spirit from deadening elements; our soul from remaining natural & old; and our body from the ruin of sin.
However, God requires our cooperation in this process: we are commanded to always rejoice, to pray unceasingly by calling on the Lord, to give thanks for every situation, and to abstain from defilements of flesh & spirit.
If we allow our spirit to remain in a situation of death, it means we’re not cooperating with the sanctifying God to preserve our spirit.
Dear brother, through God’s salvation, our entire being is saved and made perfect and complete.
Brother, praise the Lord our spirit can be preserved, can be kept in a living condition through continual exercise, causing our spirit to be living, by rejoicing, praying and giving thanks in all things!!
A lovely song on the topic of today’s morning revival is, God is spreading in my being!
Sing along via Hymnal.net, listen to it on YouTube or Soundcloud.
https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/ns/776
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd8CQheJR5A
https://soundcloud.com/user-706981176-732981643/god-is-spreading-in-my-being
God intends to bring us to full salvation positionally (by His judicial redemption) and dispositionally (through sanctification), where our entire being is saved and made complete and perfect. Hallelujah!
For this, God is preserving our spirit from any deadening element (Heb. 9:14), our soul from remaining natural and old (Matt. 16:24-26), and our body from the ruin of sin (1 Thes. 4:4; Rom. 6:6).
God’s goal in such preservation and thorough sanctification is to make us sons of God in life and nature to express Him, and to sustain us to live a holy life unto maturity that we may meet the Lord in His parousia, Amen!
Our obligation is to cooperate with His operation by exercising our spirit from deadness by prayer to fellowship with Him.
We need to keep our spirit from defilement and contamination, exercise ourselves to have a conscience void of offence towards God and men (Acts 26:14), and take heed to our spirit to have rest and peace therein.
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aaaaamen, oh Lord Jesus we want to cooperate with you to preserve our spirit in sanctification.
Ameen!!!
God not only sanctifies us wholly quantitatively but also preserves our spirit, soul, and body complete qualitatively.
In God’s full salvation, our entire being is saved and made complete and perfect. For this, God is preserving our spirit from any deadening element, our soul from remaining natural and old, and our body from the ruin of sin. Such a preservation by God and His thorough sanctification sustain us to live a holy life unto maturity that we may meet the Lord in His parousia.
Thank the Lord for the way to preserve our spirit is to keep it living through proper exercise and by abstaining ourselves from all defilement of flesh and of spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Amen!!!