Drink Christ as the All-inclusive Spirit by Calling on the Name of the Lord Jesus

We can drink Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit simply by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ! Hallelujah!

As believers in Christ who want to remain under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, we all need to drink the same spiritual drink – Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit. We need to drink Christ as the Spirit to quench our thirst and keep drinking of Him to live the Christian life.

Hallelujah, God desires to dispense Himself into us, His people, and He has made it very simple and easy for us to enjoy Him!

On one hand, He has become the holy breath, the very air we breathe as we call on His name. On the other hand, He is a flowing Triune God, and He flows from eternity to eternity.

Our God is a flowing Triune God; He flowed from eternity into time by becoming a man, and now He as the Spirit continues to flow to reach all men.

In the Old Testament many seeking ones aspired to drink of God, for they realized He is the fountain of living waters, and the water of life is with Him.

But it is only in the New Testament can He flow into man to be dispensed with all that He is into man’s inner being.

God in Christ has become a life-giving Spirit, and this life-giving Spirit is the fulfilment of the Lord’s word in John 7:37 when He calls everyone who is thirsty to come to Him and drink.

We all are thirsty; the reason we desire to get so many things, to participate in many activities, to get married, to have a good house and a good family life, is that we are thirsty.

We have an ever-increasing thirst in our being not for the things that this world has to offer but for something eternal.

We were created to live in a dependent way; we cannot live independently, that is, not depending on God.

We may try to quench our thirst by drinking the water that the world has to offer, or we may get into all kinds of things such as further studies, higher careers, etc but nothing like this can satisfy us.

Only God in Christ as the Spirit flowing into our being as living water can quench our thirst and satisfy us.

And once we drink of Him we realize that this is what we need.

And this happens not only at the beginning of our Christian life but all throughout our Christian life.

Even after becoming a believer in Christ, we still need to drink Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit, for only He can satisfy us.

Only Christ can quench our thirst, and only the all-inclusive Spirit being dispensed into us by our drinking of Him can fill us and satisfy us.

May we practice day by day the matter of drinking the Lord as the Spirit so that we may remain continually under the divine dispensing.

By calling on the Lord’s name from deep within, again and again, we drink Him in.

By coming to the Lord in His word, we take Him in as the living water. He is ready and available for us to drink; all we need to do is come to Him and drink!

God’s Intention is to Work Himself into us by our Eating and Drinking Christ

God’s intention, from eternity to eternity, is to work Himself into us by our eating Christ as the bread of life and drinking Christ as the living water.

His intention is seen in type in the Old Testament and in fulfilment in the New Testament.

In Exo. 17:6 we are told that a rock was following the children of Israel to give them water wherever they went.

This rock is Christ, as Paul explains in 1 Cor. 10:3-4. All the children of Israel ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ.

This is true of us today. We believers in Christ drink the same spiritual drink – Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit – and we eat the same spiritual food – Christ as the bread of life.

And there is a rock, which is Christ, following us, a rock that is ready to give us to drink whenever we are thirsty.

However, many Christians have never seen that God’s intention is to work Himself into us by our eating and drinking Christ.

What most Christians know is that we are fallen human beings who need a Savior, so Christ came to accomplish redemption on the cross for us.

Then, He was resurrected and sent the Holy Spirit to lead us to repent and cause us to believe in Him and receive Him as our Savior.

All these matters are in the Bible, but God’s intention is much more than this.

Many Christians further believe that the Bible is a book of ethics and divine morality, teaching us how to live in such a way that we glorify God in our daily lives.

If we do this, they believe, if we glorify God to the best of our ability, after we die or after the Lord comes back, we will spend eternity with Him.

Such things are in the Bible, but these are not the kernel of the Bible, the kernel of God’s revelation in the Word of God.

What the Bible reveals is that God wants to work Himself into man. For this, He became a man and paved the way for man to be brought into the position of receiving God as his breath, his drink, and his food.

God is not after outward worship and bowing down before Him; He wants us to worship Him by drinking Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit, the living water.

The way God works Himself into us is by our eating and drinking of Him.

As we eat Christ as the bread of life and drink Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit as the living water, He enters into our being to be assimilated into us organically and be one with us.

Just as we are what we eat physically, because the food we eat becomes our constitution and is expressed through us, so we are what we eat spiritually, for God is working Himself into us as we eat and drink of Him.

This is why at the end of the Bible the Spirit and the Bride are one to call all those who are thirsty to come to drink the water of life.

For eternity, God will give us to drink of Himself as the water of life. But many times we would rather pay attention to outward spiritual practices or “table manners” instead of eating and drinking God.

We may try to be proper in our etiquette of eating and drinking but we may not actually eat and drink.

May we be simple like little children, coming to the Lord to drink Him and eat Him so that we may be constituted with Him.

This is what the Samaritan woman did in John 4; she had many questions regarding worshipping God in this mountain or in Jerusalem, but the Lord gave her to drink.

She worshipped God in spirit and truthfulness, for she drank the living water and there were rivers of living water flowing out of her innermost being.

May we come to the Lord as we are and just drink Him as the living water.

May we set aside anything that distracts us from eating and drinking the Lord, and simply come to Him and let Him work Himself into us.

Lord Jesus, unveil us to see that God’s intention is to work Himself into us by our eating and drinking Christ! Amen, Lord, we just come to You to drink Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit, the water of life, and eat Christ as the bread of life! We need You, Lord! We don’t want to merely do things for You or perform religious activities to please You. We just come to You as we are and we ask You, Give us to eat and drink! Give us more of Yourself! Work Yourself more into our being! We want to truly worship God in spirit and truthfulness by our eating and drinking God in spirit! Amen, Lord, we open our mouth and our whole being wide to just drink You! Give us to drink today! We take You in as the living water and the bread of life!

Drink Christ as the All-inclusive Spirit by Calling on His Name to Draw Water with Rejoicing

Our daily living needs to be filled with calling on the name of the Lord to draw water with rejoicing out of the wells of salvation (Isa. 12:3-4).

We need to daily drink Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit by calling on His name. He is following us as the spiritual rock to give us to drink whenever we need it.

He has been cleft on the cross, being smitten by the righteous judgement of God, so that He can flow into us and out of us.

When we go to work and call on the name of the Lord, the rock is here to give us to drink.

When we’re walking on the street or waiting for the bus, Christ as the rock is there to give us to drink.

To drink the Spirit is to take the Spirit in so that we may have our whole being saturated with Him. To drink the Spirit is the continuation and the accomplishment of the mingling.

The Divine Trinity is dispensing Himself into us, and when we drink Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit by calling on His name, we are mingled with God and He becomes our very inward constitution.

Such a mingling and inner constitution with God is perpetual and lasts forever.

We remain in this mingling of God with man by continually calling on the Lord to draw water with rejoicing from Him as the fountain of salvation.

May the Lord recover our calling on the name of the Lord again and again throughout the day.

May we learn to just call on the name of the Lord to drink Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit!

As we call, we drink. As we call from deep within, we deeply drink of Him. And we become what we drink.

We drink Christ as the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit, and we are being constituted with Him.

By our drinking of Christ as the life-giving Spirit, God works Himself into us (1 Cor. 10:4; Col. 3:4, 10-11).

When we drink Him, we take Him in, and He becomes one with us organically to be our very life and constituent.

This is the way that we practically remain under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, but eating, drinking, and breathing in the Lord.

Breathing should be done all the time, for we need to pray unceasingly by calling on the name of the Lord.

Drinking is more important than eating, for we can last quite a few days without eating but we need to drink multiple times during the day.

When we get up in the morning, we need to drink. As we do this and that throughout the day, we need to keep drinking.

We need to keep hydrated both physically and spiritually.

For eternity we will keep drinking, for the river of water of life is flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb and is reaching everyone in the city, flowing out through the gates to reach all those in the new heaven and new earth.

Praise the Lord, we can draw water with rejoicing out of the wells of salvation and we can call on the name of the Lord (Isa. 12:3-4)!

As we call on the Lord from deep within, we drink Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit as our wonderful, all-inclusive drink.

This is the way that we remain under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity throughout the day.

On His side, the Lord has done everything and has come into us, and He is even following us to be with us wherever we are to give us to drink.

On our side, we simply need to call on the name of the Lord, and we will drink Christ as the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit.

As we drink Him, He works Himself into us and saturates all the parts of our inner being with Himself.

Just as there is a dispensing of the food going on in our physical being through the process of digestion and assimilation, so there’s a process of dispensing of the element of God as we breathe, drink, and eat the Lord.

There is a marvellous yet quiet dispensing going on in us as we contact the Lord by calling on His name and praying to fellowship with Him.

We have been baptized into the Spirit and we were given to drink one Spirit; we are in the right position, ready to drink, and we simply need to drink (1 Cor. 12:13).

On one hand, we have been put in Him; on the other hand, we take Him into us. We are in Him and He is in us. He baptized us into Himself and He is working Himself into us.

The issue of this is that we are mingled with the Triune God and we remain under the divine dispensing for the fulfilment of His purpose.

It is His dispensing of Himself into us as the living water that fulfils God’s purpose; we simply drink and drink and drink, and His dispensing accomplishes everything!

Lord Jesus, we call on Your name to enjoy all Your riches. Amen, Lord, we open our whole being to You and we call on Your name. Give us to drink the living water. We come to You to drink Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit to be one with Him in our daily life. Amen, Lord, may there be a deeper mingling in our being today! Mingle Yourself with us much more. Become our very life and constituent. O Lord Jesus! Lord Jesus! Work Yourself into us and dispense all that You are into our being. We want to draw water with joy out of the wells of salvation by calling on the name of the Lord! Lord Jesus, we draw water! Amen, Lord, we rejoice as we drink of You! Hallelujah, living water flows in our being! Amen, Lord, we drink deeply of You as the life-giving, all-inclusive Spirit!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ted Williamson in the message, and portions from, Life-study of Exodus, pp. 515-517, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Divine Economy (2022 Thanksgiving Weekend Conference), week 3, entitled, Experiencing the Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity by Breathing the Spirit, Drinking the Water of Life, and Eating the bread of God.
• Further reading on this topic:
  – Calling on the name of the Lord is one of the hidden gems for us in the Bible – via, LSM Newsletters.
  – We are the Calling People, portion from The Spirit and the Body, Chapter 4, by Witness Lee.
  – What is the All-inclusive Christ? Portion via, LSM Radio.
  – The all-inclusive Christ in 1 Corinthians, article by Ed Marks in Affirmation and Critique.
  – Call on the Lord’s Name and Drink the Spirit, via, New Jerusalem blog.
  – 3 Key Verses on the Holy Spirit with Our Human Spirit, article at, Bibles for America blog.
  – The Scientific Way to Drink the Water of Life, via, Holding to Truth.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – The river does the Spirit show, / Coming man’s spirit to supply, / That with God’s riches he be filled, / Holy to be thereby. / God is in Christ to be my supply, / God as the Spirit nourisheth me; / If upon Christ in spirit I feed, / Filled with His life I’ll be. (Hymns #509 stanza 3 and chorus)
  – Therefore with joy shall ye draw water / Out of the wells of salvation. / And in that day shall ye say, / Praise the Lord. / Call upon His name, / Declare His doings among the people, / Make mention that His name is exalted. / Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: / For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. (Hymns #1340)
  – The Spirit of life is within us today, / Who’s likened to water our thirst to allay; / Of Him we may drink and be filled thus with Him, / Until as a river He flows from within. (Hymns #278 stanza 1)